ANKARA: A Turkish court has sentenced 104 former military officers to life in prison for their involvement in a 2016 coup attempt. The failed coup to overthrow President Recep Tayyip Erdogan left at least 260 dead and 2,200 injured in July 2016. The Turkish government has since led a crackdown on ...

Egypt has sentenced 35 alleged Muslim Brotherhood members to life in prison for allegedly forming "terrorist cells" to attack security forces and state institutions. The Sohag Criminal Court in central Egypt sentenced another 155 defendants to three to 15 years in prison on similar charges, ...

THE HAGUE: A UN tribunal on Wednesday convicted ex-Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic of genocide and crimes against humanity for massacres of Bosnian Muslims and ethnic cleansing campaigns to forge a “Greater Serbia”, and jailed him for life.Mladic was hustled out of the court ...

A Turkish court has sentenced thirty-four people to life in prison for attempting to kill President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Exiled cleric Fetullah Gulen, who lives in the United States, was among those on trial, but did not appear in court and no verdict was given in his case.  

BEIJING: (APP) Former top Chinese military leader Guo Boxiong was sentenced Monday to life in prison for accepting bribes, the official Xinhua news agency said -- the latest high-profile conviction in President Xi Jinping's crackdown on corruption.For a decade, Guo was one of the two vice chairmen ...