In the chaos of Sierra Leone’s brutal civil war, 11 soldiers from the Royal Irish Regiment were captured deep inside rebel territory by the notorious Westside Boys, a violent militia known for drugs, ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone -- Foday Sankoh, an indicted Sierra Leone war criminal whose rebel forces were notorious for hacking off the limbs, lips and ears of civilians, died in U.N. custody in a ...

Former Liberian President Charles Taylor was convicted Thursday by an international war crimes court in The Hague, Netherlands, for a series of atrocities, including funding rebels in Sierra Leone.

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (Reuters) -- Bodies littered the streets of east Freetown and rebels were burning houses and cars as they retreated before a Nigerian-led West African force, a couple who fled ...