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Australia has disputed suggestions by the US Department of Defense that the four years terror suspect David Hicks has been detained at Guantanamo Bay should not count toward any...

A spokesman for the UN-Afghan Joint Election Management Body said Sunday that "approximately 50" Afghan election workers had been dismissed under suspicion of fraud committed in last month's parliamentary elections . Some 680 ballot boxes alleged...

Afghanistan's defense ministry said Monday that the country is preparing prison facilities to hold detainees who are expected to be transferred from the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay . Defense ministry spokesman General Mohammad Zahir Azimi...

The Pentagon announced Tuesday that David Hicks , the only Australian held at the US terror suspect detention camp at Guantanamo Bay , will go to trial before a special military commission on November 18, about...

The European Court of First Instance Wednesday ruled that the European Union can freeze the assets of suspected terrorists under its treaty powers . The court dismissed complaints from alleged al...

The US Defense Department Tuesday directed that suspended military commission proceedings against Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks be resumed following a July US appeals court ruling in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld that military...

Afghans voted in their first parliamentary elections in decades Sunday, without the significant violence feared by officials . Anti-government Taliban fighters had agreed not to attack civilian voters, but warned people to stay away from areas...

The latest Guantanamo Bay hunger strike has expanded to include 131 participants and is now at its largest point since the protest began a month ago, a military official said Thursday. According to the military, the...

AP is reporting that the US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has denied the habeas appeal of Jose Padilla , ruling that the "dirty bomb" suspect can be detained without charges indefinitely. Padilla's attorneys had challenged his...

A federal judge met with Justice Department lawyer Terry Henry Thursday to discuss why the US has not yet released two Chinese Uighur Muslims still held at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp after the government determined...