A Turkish court on Monday began the trial of two former generals and 54 others suspected of planning to overthrow the country's ruling Justice Development Party (AKP) . Sener Eruygur, Hursit Tolon, and their...
A US military study has recommended a complete overhaul of both the US-run and Afghan-run prisons in Afghanistan, the New York Times reported Sunday. After prison conditions continued to deteriorate, and a January report by the UN...
Nur Bekri, chairman of the government in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region , told the Xinhua News Agency Sunday that twelve "mobsters" had been fatally shot by police in the Chinese city of Urumqi on July...
The Adawa court of misdemeanors in the Egyptian city of Menya Saturday reversed the conviction of Mounir Saeed Hannah, a teacher charged with insulting President Mohamed Hosni Mubarak by authoring an unpublished satirical poem....
A Pakistan anti-terrorism court Saturday began the trial of five men allegedly belonging to the Lakshar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant group suspected of planning and coordinating the November 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai , according...
The US District Court of the Central District of California Friday ended the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) consent decree to federal oversight that the LAPD was forced into in 2001...
The US House of Representatives Intelligence Committee will launch an investigation into plans by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to assassinate al Qaeda members, the Committee announced Friday. The Committee has already requested...
The Obama administration may create a special unit of interrogators to handle certain terror suspects, the Wall St. Journal reported Saturday, citing unidentified government officials. In creating the unit, the administration would reduce the role of the Central Intelligence...
American Academy, et al. v. Napolitano, et al., US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, July 17, 2009 [ruling in favor of three organizations- including the ACLU, that had challenged the denial of a US visa to controversial Swiss...
Sharif v. State, Supreme Court of Pakistan, July 17, 2009 ....