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The wife of Robert Bales, the U.S. soldier charged in the shooting deaths of 17 civilians in Afghanistan, says he could not have committed the crimes. "I don't think anything will really change my mind in believing that he did not do this," Kari Bales told NBC's "Today" show in an exclusive...

The Hague, Netherlands (CNN) -- The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court sought the arrest of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and two relatives Monday, linking them to "widespread and systematic" attacks on civilians as they struggle to hold power. Luis Moreno-Ocampo told...

KUNDUZ, Afghanistan (Reuters) – A suicide bomber killed at least 30 people in a government office in northern Afghanistan on Monday, officials said, with violence spiralling across the country even before an expected spring offensive. Afghan and NATO-led forces were also investigating two...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/bestoftv/2010/10/25/lkl.assange.iraqi.deaths.cnn WikiLeaks Editor-in-Chief Julian Assange is defending the group's recent leak and said it poses no real risk to soldiers or civilians in Iraq. "This material doesn't mention any soldiers' names, doesn't mention any...

Civilians uprooted by new Congo violence NEW YORK, Fighting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has uprooted almost 90,000 civilians from their homes in the east of the country, the United Nations says. Clashes between the national army and the Ugandan rebel group known as the Allied...

Accountability key to protecting civilians NEW YORK, (UPI) -- Accountability is key to protecting civilians from sexual violence and other abuses that remain widespread in armed conflicts, top U.N. officials said. The officials, including Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, addressed the Security...

Tiger death toll 525 as Sri Lanka gears for battle -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COLOMBO (AFP) – Sri Lanka's military readied on Monday for a final assault on Tamil Tigers boxed into a strip of jungle with thousands of trapped civilians...