A lieutenant colonel is on trial after being accused of skimming payments for battlefield injuries. He denies the specifics of Russia’s accusation but acknowledges engaging in a payouts scheme.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) released a special report Thursday containing Palestinian journalists' first-hand accounts of torture in Israeli prisons. The stories come from 59 ...

Police say they arrested two Palestinian men on suspicion of online incitement during separate raids overnight in the southern West Bank. During the arrests, officers put up leaflets near the homes of ...

Former Chicago police Detective Richard Zuley once spent time on a special assignment at the Guantanamo Bay detention center, ...

A recent documentary examines the Russian military’s experiences in the war in Ukraine. Does that make it propaganda?

Torturing prisoners is not merely a war crime that Russians perpetrate, it's part of Russian culture. Susan Sontag's 20-year-old essays may help us understand it. In the Kyiv Independent's latest ...

Russian strikes early Thursday cut heating to nearly 2,600 residential buildings in Kyiv, in a nationwide attack on energy facilities that killed two people in eastern Ukraine. Russia has stepped up ...

The death toll from a crackdown over Iran’s nationwide protests last month has reached at least 7,002 people killed with many ...

The death toll from a crackdown over Iran’s nationwide protests last month has reached at least 7,002 people killed with many ...

Igor Zykov was sentenced to 23 years in prison after being convicted of murder, violent sex acts, and theft following the death of schoolgirl Milena Shevelyova ...

More than a century ago, Japan enacted a Peace Preservation Law that became a tool of state control. Hishiya Ryōichi and his fellow art students in Asahikawa, Hokkaidō, were imprisoned under this ...

Two Ukrainian soldiers who had been captured by Russia were rescued from captivity after an operation that used the Vampire attack drone.