A man prosecutors say once identified himself as a former bodyguard to ex-Liberian president and convicted war criminal Charles Taylor admitted in court Monday that he used his younger brother’s ...

Leading human rights advocates have condemned President Joseph Boakai's decision to commission Lewis Brown, a former national security adviser to Charles Taylor, as Liberia's ambassador to the United ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Former Liberian President Charles Taylor is to be sentenced for war crimes by a UN court ...

The war in Liberia began in December 1989 when the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL), led by Charles Taylor, entered Liberia from the Ivory Coast and launched a military offensive to ...

Given the background of a brutal seven-year civil war, Liberia's transition process was slow and shaky. Three years after a U.N.-supervised election brought former faction leader Charles Taylor to ...