Jan. 30 -- Up until Sept. 11, few Americans knew or cared much about the Geneva Conventions. Now, the Geneva Conventions are a part of daily discourse in Washington, a measure of the treatment of al ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. GENEVA (AP) — At its 75th anniversary, the ...

TV images of downcast, frightened American soldiers have brought furious denunciations of the Iraqi military by U.S. leaders for violating the Geneva Conventions. • The U.S. has designated captives in ...

SECRETARY OF Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld read a statement Friday to Congress taking responsibility for the abuse of prisoners in Iraq, and he was right to do so. But Mr. Rumsfeld did not accept the ...

While nothing compared to the horrors of Saddam Hussein’s regime, the actions of U.S. soldiers at Abu Ghraib unquestionably violated international law. What’s more, for two years reports have piled up ...

America’s wrenching debate over what constitutes torture and whether the nation practices it is beginning to involve a group you’d think would be above such things: the medical profession. According ...