Ian Cobain

British MPs and lawyers call for more rigorous probes into the abuse and deaths of detainees.

The British government is negotiating payments to thousands of Kenyans who were detained and severely mistreated during the 1950s Mau Mau insurgency.

A case by former subjects of Her Majesty’s British Empire has unearthed awful truths, deliberately hidden, of atrocities in African countries.

‘Violent shock’ the only way to deal with Mau Mau insurgents, British government told.

Why would someone want to bomb the country where he grew up?

<b>Ian Cobain</b> reports on British military interrogation training methods that may be in breach of international law.

A British court issued an arrest warrant this week for Israel’s former foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, over war crimes allegedly committed in Gaza.

Pressure for inquiry grows as Pakistani torturers themselves allege British complicity in the abuse of English citizens in the war on terror.

John McCain’s election campaign on Friday night suffered the body blow for which Republicans had been bracing themselves.

Relations between London and Moscow threatened to plummet to a post-Cold War low on Thursday amid renewed Russian demands for action against Boris Berezovsky over the tycoon’s…

This week’s Red Sea bombing has left the Bedouin people of the Sinai feeling three times injured. Four of their children were seriously injured, their tourism-dependent…