Dubai police have announced a crackdown on a large prostitution ring, which human rights activists welcomed on Wednesday as a long-awaited move against the human trafficking rampant in this wealthy Gulf city.
A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by immigrants arrested in a factory raid, saying their constitutional rights were not violated — though it noted that government bungling allowed children of some detainees to go unsupervised.
European Union troops raided the home of an alleged supporter of fugitive war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic on Monday to try to find clues about his hiding place.
Charges were dropped against two defendants in Albany County's multistate investigation into illegal steroid sales because of a "lack of jurisdiction," a lawyer said Thursday.
Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian gunman and an elderly civilian in a pre-dawn raid in the West Bank city of Nablus on Tuesday, Palestinian witnesses and doctors said.
Officials from World Wrestling Entertainment met this week with New York prosecutors investigating illegal steroid sales.
Annapolis police raided the wrong apartment Wednesday night, using flash grenades and kicking a resident in the groin before they realized their mistake, police and the family said.
Troops on Thursday discovered three vehicles rigged with explosives during a raid on a hideout in eastern Lebanon, security officials said.
U.S.-led forces discovered a cache of Iranian money and bomb-making equipment during a raid Wednesday morning in the Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City in Baghdad, the military said. Two suspected militants were killed in the raid and 19 others detained, the military said.
A woman kidnapped by female seminary students and accused of running a brothel was freed Thursday after a hard-line cleric forced her to repent in public — an episode in vigilante justice that shows the boldness of Islamic extremists in Pakistan.
A hard-line Islamic cleric said Thursday he would free a woman accused of running a brothel if she agrees to "refrain from spreading obscenity" or if police file a case against her.
Police were trying to pick up the trail of three people suspected of staging a panty raid this week at a Victoria's Secret in Newport Center Mall.
Two leaders of an Albany mosque who were snared in an FBI sting involving a fictional terror strike were sentenced Thursday to 15 years in federal prison. The former imam, Yassin Aref, professed innocence before his sentencing and criticized the government's treatment of Muslims.
Iraq's government opened a probe Monday into a British-Iraqi raid on a police intelligence headquarters in southern Iraq that captured an alleged death squad leader and found 30 prisoners with signs of torture.
The young Palestinian man was dressed in shorts and a T-shirt on a cold winter morning as he walked in front of heavily armed Israeli soldiers on a door-to-door sweep of three apartments in a crowded West Bank neighborhood.
Dozens of Israeli jeeps and armored vehicles raided the West Bank city of Nablus Sunday and placed tens of thousands of Palestinians under curfew.
U.S. troops raided a car bomb factory west of Baghdad with five buildings full of propane tanks and ordinary chemicals the military believes were to be used in bombs, a spokesman said Thursday, a day after insurgents blew up a truck carrying chlorine gas canisters.
Hundreds of U.N. peacekeepers raided Haiti's largest and most violent slum Friday, seizing a portion of it in a six-hour gunbattle that left a gang member dead and two soldiers wounded, officials said.
U.S. and Iraqi forces arrested a top aide to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Friday in Baghdad, his office said.
Federal drug agents raided nearly a dozen medical marijuana clinics, seizing several thousand pounds of processed marijuana, along with weapons and money, authorities said.
Federal officials said Wednesday that the raids on meatpacking plants in six states uncovered a "disturbing front" in the battle against illegal immigration — identity theft as a tool to obtain employment.
A state legislator was arrested on a federal bribery warrant, three months after federal agents raided the offices of at least six Alaska lawmakers in an investigation into a large oil field services company.
Police arrested about 90 alleged organized crime figures early Wednesday, including the father of a man who faces charges related to the killing of members of the Bonanno crime family in New York.
U.S. and Iraqi security forces killed 53 suspected insurgents in a raid southeast of Baghdad, Iraqi police said Sunday.
Shaquille O'Neal was present during a botched child pornography raid last month while working in Virginia as a reserve sheriff's deputy, a Bedford County Sheriff's officer said.