Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan were top leaders in the regime, which forced residents out of the cities into the countryside where they labored under brutal conditions in giant agricultural cooperatives ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — The two surviving senior leaders of Cambodia’s former Khmer Rouge regime launched appeals Thursday of their convictions by a U.N.-backed tribunal that sentenced them to ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Khmer Rouge executioners threw victims to their deaths, bludgeoned them and then slit their bellies, or had medics draw so much blood that their lives drained away, prosecutors ...

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More than three decades after the brutal Khmer Rouge regime ended, a U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal on Thursday found the regime's two most senior surviving leaders guilty of crimes against humanity ...

They appealed their convictions, accusing the court of a string of errors and the judges of failing to remain impartial. Cambodia's UN-backed court upheld life sentences for two top former Khmer Rouge ...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday the convictions of two former Khmer Rouge leaders was a "milestone for the Cambodian people who have suffered some of the worst horrors of the 20th ...

One of the top surviving leaders of Cambodia's ruthless Khmer Rouge regime on Friday denied genocide charges and rejected being labelled a "murderer" in forceful closing remarks at a lengthy UN-backed ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- A special Cambodian court Wednesday upheld life sentences for the two most senior surviving members of the Khmer Rouge regime, which was responsible for the deaths of 1.7 ...

BANGKOK, Jan. 7 -- Three decades to the day after the fall of Cambodia's brutal Khmer Rouge regime, the country finally got a possible start date for the trial of one of its key leaders. International ...

The last surviving leaders of the communist Khmer Rouge regime that brutally ruled Cambodia in the 1970s were convicted of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes Friday by an international ...