The Obama administration imposed financial sanctions Monday on an alleged terror leader accused of trying to carry out attacks at last year's Olympic Games in China. The Treasury Department's target was Abdul Haq, head of the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Party. The action means that any ...

Four youths were publicly whipped in the Somali capital on Monday after an Islamist court convicted them of gang rape, in a demonstration of the U.N.-backed government's inability to administer justice in this chaotic nation. Despite judge Abdul Haq's insistence ...