NEW YORK—Friday, a federal grand jury in Brooklyn, N.Y., returned an indictment charging Faruq Khalil Muhammad ‘Isa, 38, aka “Faruk Khalil Muhammad ‘Isa,†“Sayfildin Tahir Sharif†and “Tahir Sharif Sayfildin,†with aiding in the murder of five American soldiers in a suicide-bomb attack in Iraq in April 2009.
NEW YORK-The United Nations human rights chief warned today that Syria could descend into civil war as more members of the armed forces defect, noting that nearly 1,000 of the estimated 4,000 people who have died in the bloody crackdown on protesters have been members of the security forces.
WASHINGTON – A former employee of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers stationed in Baghdad, Iraq, was sentenced today in the Eastern District of Virginia to 20 months in prison for conspiring to receive bribes from Iraqi contractors involved in the U.S.-funded reconstruction efforts, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s […]
BRUSSELS-In Brussels, in an attempt to rescue the Euro, 23 of 27 national leaders from that continent agreed on a pact to bind their nations together under one fiscal policy. The pact would harmonize fiscal policies and cap government debt and deficits and allow the union to place sanctions on nations that do not adhere […]