NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Sahar Fetrat a researcher at Human Rights Watch, about the lives of women in Afghanistan now, as ...

A federal jury on Tuesday awarded a total of $42 million to three Iraqi men who endured continuous torture at Baghdad’s Abu ...

More than 15 years after victims of torture at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison lodged a lawsuit against a US contractor, a jury ...

A federal judge sentenced a Massachusetts Air National Guard member to 15 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to leaking ...

The jury granted $3 million in compensatory damages and $11 million in punitive damages to each of the plaintiffs.

The jury also decided to hold a Virginia-based military contractor responsible for contributing to the torture and ...

After jihadists jailed him in 2014, Iraqi religious scholar Muhammad al-Attar said he would sometimes pull his prison blanket ...

At 21 years old, Noah Soulay is a grown man. He is tall, slim and speaks English with an American accent. He says he lived in ...

Tara Desousa, now 43, has applied to Federal Court to overturn a decision by B.C.‘s Fraser Valley Institution to deny her “escorted temporary absences” from the federal women’s prison.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A military contractor accused of contributing to the abuse of detainees at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison two decades ago is again on trial in a federal courtroom after a long ...