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The article reports that Hanna Johannes Cosar, a former Swiss soldier who led a Christian militia against the terrorist group Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria, was found guilty of violating the neutrality in Switzerland and was fined for the said violation.

The article reports that 104 people, most of them military personnel, involved in the failed military coup of 2016 in Turkey were handed life sentences by an Istanbul court.

The article discusses the mass trial in Sincan, Turkey involving soldiers who were accused of participating in a failed coup in 2016 wherein hundreds of people were killed and thousands wounded.

The article reports on the decision of the U.S. military prosecutors to drop the sexual assault charges against Brigade General Jeffrey A. Sinclair following the opposing testimonies provided by Sinclair and an Army captain, whom he had an affair for almost three years.

The article reports on the trial of former Turkish soldiers on charges of attempting to kill Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a failed coup in July 2016, with prosecutors seeking lige sentences for 47 former soldiers involved in the coup attempt.

The article reports on the Nonagenarian survivors' call for a resolution of the case of a former soldier convicted of complicity in Berlin, Germany.

Corrections to articles in previous issues are presented including one on the conviction of former military personnel involved in Operation Condor, one on the effect for global economy of Great Britain's decision to leave European Union, and another concerning American gymnast Simone Biles.

The article reports on the ongoing trials of U.S. Army soldiers involved in the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal in Iraq. The recent conviction of an Army dog handler is reviewed. The author discusses how attempts by defense lawyers to question the responsibility of higher-ranking officers have failed. According to military experts, there has not been attempts to pursue charges up the military chain of command. Comments from military law specialist Eugene Fidell are included. INSET: Abuse Convictions.

Offers a look at the investigation into the shooting of an Iraqi police officer, Hussein Kamel Hadi Dawood al-Zubeidi, by a United States soldier, Dustin M. Berg. Report that Berg killed al-Zubeidi and then shot himself in the side; Report that Berg lied about the incident and said al-Zubeidi had shot him; Statement that Berg received a Purple Heart for his wound; Investigation of other soldiers for incidents in Iraq where soldiers have killed Iraqis and claimed they were acting in self-defense; Report that Berg has been charged with murder.

The article reports on the presence of American Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl held as prisoner of war by the Taliban, at his preliminary hearing in San Antonio, Texas on September 10, 2015 on charges that he deserted his post and endangered troops who searched for him.

The article reports that the 3 soldiers who were suspected of human rights abuses for unleashing a series of gunshots that killed 22 people on June 30, 2014 in western Mexico have been charged with homicide.

The author discusses the sexual assault charges against U.S. Brigade General Jeffrey Sinclair, who pleaded guilty to avoid prosecution and to lessen charges against him such as mistreating his accuser, an Army captain.

The article reports that Army is seeking death penalty sentence to the massacre case of Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, an 11-year Army veteran who allegedly killed 16 Afghan civilians. It says that prosecutor Major Rob Stelle states on a statement that the nature of crimes conducted by Bales, particularly the murder of children, elevated the case to death penalty. However, John Henry Browne, lawyer for Bales, argued that his client suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder.

The article focuses on the court hearing at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington, D.C. regarding Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, an army who was accused of killing 16 Afghanistan civilians. According to James Stillwell, an army medic who testified against the accused, he saw Bales covered with blood the time the incident happened. It mentions that the hearing which started on November 12, 2012 will be the first step for military justice on Bales case.

The lawyer representing Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, the soldier charged with 17 counts of murder in the deaths of Afghan civilians this month, said that military prosecutors had denied members of his legal team access to witnesses at a Kandahar hospital, as well as to investigative files, medical records and surveillance video. ''We were expecting a lot more cooperation,'' Sergeant Bales's lead lawyer, John Henry Browne, said during a news conference in Seattle on Friday. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- Military investigators suspect that the American soldier charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder and other charges in connection with the attacks against Afghan civilians this month committed the shootings during two separate operations, a United States official said Saturday. The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the continuing investigation, said that the investigators believed that the soldier, Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, left his Afghanistan base and carried out the first set of killings, returned to the combat outpost and then, sometime later that evening, went out and attacked a second village. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A former soldier from Maryland was charged Monday with trying to provide material support to a terrorist organization in Africa. Federal authorities say the soldier, Craig B. Baxam, 24, flew to Kenya last month with the goal of joining the militant terrorist group Al Shabab in Somalia. He converted to Islam shortly before dropping out of the United States Army in July, after four years of service, including in Iraq, federal authorities said. Mr. Baxam planned to donate money to Al Shabab, a violent militia group that opposes the Somalian government, authorities said. He faces a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Argentina's last military president has been found guilty of more crimes against humanity, this time getting 15 years for setting up a secret torture center inside a hospital during the 1976 military coup. The leader, Reynaldo Benito Bignone, oversaw the takeover of the Posadas de Haedo hospital in provincial Buenos Aires 35 years ago. Dozens of people were kidnapped, and doctors and nurses were among the torture victims. General Bignone, 85, was previously sentenced to 25 years in prison for involvement in illegal raids, kidnapping and torture involving 56 people from 1976 to 1978 at the Campo de Mayo detention centers at a military base on the outskirts of Buenos Aires. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WILMINGTON, Del. -- In a completely random act of violence, the police say, Staff Sgt. Dwight L. Smith drove into a stranger as she was walking her dog in a stately Wilmington neighborhood on Monday morning, put the woman into his vehicle and then killed her with blows to the head, according to the criminal charges. So beloved was the victim, Marsha Lee, 65, that hundreds in the community joined her grieving family at a temple on Thursday afternoon. Van Olmstead, a member of the temple's board of trustees who knew her, said there was an overflow crowd, ''like in the High Holidays.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

BEIJING -- China announced on Wednesday that it would join its southeastern neighbors to conduct police patrols on the Mekong River, after the killings last month of 11 Chinese crewmen in an area plagued by drug smuggling. The episode provoked anger in China and embarrassed Thailand, which is prosecuting nine of its soldiers -- members of an antidrug task force -- in connection with the attack. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Fourteen soldiers have been sentenced to jail terms ranging from 16 to 40 years for firing on a family group in 2007, killing two women and three children, Mexico's defense ministry said late Thursday. Human rights advocates say that President Felipe Calderon's campaign against powerful drug traffickers has led some soldiers to overstep their powers. The Defense Ministry called the deaths a ''regrettable error.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. -- The soldier accused of leading an Army unit that killed three unarmed civilians in Afghanistan last year believed he was engaging in legitimate combat at the time and has been made a scapegoat by others accused of the crimes, his lawyer said Monday. ''What you're seeing in this case is the ultimate betrayal of an infantryman,'' the lawyer, Phillip Stackhouse, told a military jury here during opening arguments of a court-martial proceeding against the soldier, Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Bolivia's highest court on Tuesday convicted five former top military commanders of genocide for an army crackdown on riots over poverty and political marginalization in October 2003 that killed at least 64 civilians. The former commanders received sentences ranging from 10 to 15 years in prison. The court, the Supreme Tribunal, also convicted two former cabinet ministers of complicity in the killings and sentenced each to three years. The 2003 protests and crackdown provided a turning point in Bolivian politics: The president was forced into exile, the country's traditional political parties collapsed, and Evo Morales, one of the protest leaders, won the presidency two years later. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A letter to the editor is presented in response to an article on the photographic evidence that was used against U.S. Army Sergeant Javal S. Davis, Specialist Sabrina Harman, and Private First Class Lynndie England in trial.

Reports that a military judge has rejected efforts by soldiers, Specialist Charles Graner and Sergeant Javal Davis charged in the Abu Ghraib scandal, to obtain testimony from military intelligence officers. Request of the lawyers of the soldiers for an immunity grant; Probable years of conviction for the soldiers if found guilty; Schedule of the trials of the soldiers.