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U.S., European weapons used to commit war crimes in Iraq

Militias fighting alongside Iraqi troops against ISIS are committing war crimes using weapons provided to the Iraqi military by the United States, Europe, Russia and Iran, Amnesty International said Thursday. The rights group said that predominantly Shi'ite Muslim militias, known collective...

Obama urges more progress on criminal justice reform

The United States has "much work to be done" to reform the criminal justice system and humanize the prison system, President Barack Obama said Thursday in a Harvard Law Review article. In the 56-page article, the president defends his government's actions during his eight-year term on a...

U.S. to transfer four Guantanamo Bay detainees to Saudi Arabia

The United States will transfer four detainees to Saudi Arabia from the Guantanamo Bay military prison in the next 24 hours, U.S. officials said Wednesday, in President Barack Obama's final push to shrink the inmate population there despite pressure from the president-elect to halt such...