Michael Sang Correa, 46, served in an armed unit known as the "Junglers," which answered to The Gambia’s then-president, ...

A former soldier from Gambia has been convicted of charges of torturing suspected backers of a failed coup against the West African country’s longtime dictator decades ago ...

Michael Sang Correa, 46, faced six counts in a U.S. court related to the torture of five people in attempt to coerce confessions of involvement in a 2006 coup attempt against The Gambia's then ...

Michael Sang Correa was charged with torturing five men believed to be opponents of Yahya Jammeh […] A man who told police that he was held captive in a Connecticut home by his father and stepmother ...

Opening statements are expected Tuesday in the U.S. trial of a man accused of torturing political opponents of Gambia’s ...

Dallas school officials said Tuesday that police were responding to reports of a shooting at a high school where students ...

DENVER (AP) — Suspected of backing a coup plot against the longtime dictator of Gambia nearly 20 years ago, Pharing Sanyang ...

DENVER — Jury selection began Monday in the trial of a former Gambian soldier accused of torture in his home country, making ...

He said that Jatta put off his uniform and started smocking cigarette and then placed a lit cigarette on his left shoulder. According to him, the cigarette burned his skin – a burn he still suffers ...

The case marks the third prosecution in U.S. history to fall under the federal Torture Act, and Correa is the first foreign ...

He is charged with both torturing five people suspected of involvement in the failed 2006 coup against Yahya Jammeh as well ...

a military unit that reported directly to former Gambian president Yahya Jammeh. Sanyang told jurors he eventually agreed to sign a false confession but wiped blood from his head onto the paper to ...