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Former al Qaeda military commander Saif al-Adel was arrested at an airport in Cairo on Tuesday, according to the Egyptian media. Egyptian security officials detained al-Adel upon his arrival after noticing...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit on Wednesday under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) demanding the US government release information about their targeted killing program of US citizens...

Four British men pleaded guilty Wednesday to plotting an al Qaeda inspired attack against the London Stock Exchange (LSE) . In December 2010, nine men who met through radical Islamist groups were charged and taken into custody [JURIST...

The New York Times (NYT) filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday alleging the government violated the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in refusing to release legal memoranda...

United Nations Special Rapporteur on on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Christof Heyns , on Thursday urged respect for international standards concerning the use of lethal force during arrests and warned that the growing use of...

An Obama administration legal memorandum from last year found that the killing of US citizen and senior al Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki would only be legal if it were not feasible to...

Jury selection began on Tuesday for terror suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab , the Nigerian accused of attempting to bring down a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit with a bomb in his underwear on...

A CIA drone strike in Yemen on Friday killed senior al Qaeda leader, US citizen Anwar al-Awlaki . The strike marks the US government's most successful attack against al Qaeda since the raid...

US Senator John McCain (R-AZ) , along with five cosponsors, introduced legislation Thursday that would prohibit funding for civilian trials of Guantanamo Bay detainees and place restrictions on the transfer of detainees to foreign countries....

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) on Friday dropped a lawsuit challenging the US government's Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) licensing scheme after the government changed...