(CNN)-- Three former guerrilla leaders -- who helped command what one activist called "one of the most brutal rebel movements in modern days" -- were sentenced Wednesday in Freetown, Sierra Leone ...

During Sierra Leone’s civil war ... Lynette, 16, was abducted and held by the rebels for several days during which time she was given drugs in her food, and witnessed other abductees being ...

(CNN)-- Three former leaders of Sierra ... investigated in Sierra Leone." Eight people have now been convicted of war crimes connected with the conflict -- some on the rebel's side and some ...

This latest rebel offensive brought to the capital the same class of atrocities witnessed in Sierra Leone's rural provinces over the last eight years and is the latest cycle of violence in an ...

[AFP] Sierra Leone's UN-backed tribunal said Wednesday it will grant conditional early release to a former rebel leader in prison for crimes against humanity committed during the country's brutal ...