Judges on Monday rejected a request by former Liberian President Charles Taylor for an immediate acquittal on war crimes charges, saying he must answer allegations that he was part of a campaign to terrorize Sierra Leone’s population through murder, rape

War crimes judges say they have dismissed a motion to acquit former Liberian President Charles Taylor because he may have been responsible for mass murder, rape and mutilations in Sierra Leone’s brutal civil war.

Sierra Leone authorities say three men convicted of drug smuggling have been sent to the U.S. where they are wanted on similar charges.

A U.N.-sponsored war crimes court found three top Sierra Leone rebel leaders guilty Wednesday of multiple crimes against humanity in the West African nation’s disastrous civil war.

An international tribunal found three Sierra Leone rebel leaders guilty of crimes against humanity.

A U.N.-sponsored war crimes court is delivering verdicts Wednesday for three rebel commanders accused of crimes against humanity in the group’s decade-long battle to take control of the West African nation and its diamond fields.

They chopped off hands, legs, lips, ears, breasts. In their decade-long battle to take control of Sierra Leone and its diamond fields, rebels of the Revolutionary United Front wielded their machetes to maim thousands of victims.

Prosecutors have called a man who had both hands hacked off during Sierra Leone’s civil war as the last witness in their war crimes case against Charles Taylor.

Sierra Leone police say pirates attacked a Chinese fishing vessel in a rare attack off West Africa that ended with four suspects dead.

A U.N.-backed war crimes court on Wednesday more than doubled the prison terms for two ex-militia leaders convicted of overseeing hundreds of killings and mutilations during Sierra Leone’s 11-year war.An earlier ruling sentencing Moinina Fofana to six...