The US Senate passed the Legislative Transparency and Accountability Act of 2007 by a 96-2 vote Thursday, but declined to create a Senate Office of Public Integrity to investigate ethics breaches....
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A second US soldier has reached a plea deal with prosecutors, and is expected to plead guilty to charges stemming from the rape and murder of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and the murder of her family...
Manual for Military Commissions, US Department of Defense, January 18, 2007 . Read the full...
More than a hundred officials of Saddam Hussein's regime have been charged for their roles in quelling the Shiite uprising following the 1990-91 Gulf War that resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of Shiites, according...
The father and military lawyer of Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks spoke out against new US military commission rules Thursday, insisting that the regulations are even more unfair...
The military government of Myanmar has accused National League for Democracy leader, and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi of tax evasion, claiming in the...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Thursday that two Chechen brothers were tortured by the Russian military during their 6-month detention in 2000 and awarded each brother 35,000 ($57,665) compensation. Adam and Arbi Chitayev,...
Terror detainees may be convicted solely on hearsay or coerced evidence and defendants may not present classified evidence unless the government approves its use, according to the Manual for Military Commissions , released by the US...
US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday that it is not " decision" whether or not the Justice Department agrees to release the text of the order granted by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance...
Former UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke criticized Britain's judges Thursday for rulings that he said undermined the war on terror. Clarke, who led the Home Office from December 2004 until May 2006, spoke before...
