A presidential special task force on interrogations and transfer policies issued its recommendations Monday calling on the Obama administration to create a specialized interrogation group to question top terrorist suspects. The task force, created by executive order...
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The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Monday that Guantanamo Bay detainee Mohammed Jawad has been repatriated to Afghanistan. Co-counsel for Jawad, US Air Force Major Frakt,...
Liberia's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) urged Thursday that several one-time military and political leaders be prosecuted in a special Liberian court for war crimes. Those named include ex-president Charles Taylor , now...
UK Armed Services Minister Bob Ainsworth said Sunday that the British military is again considering whether to change a policy that prohibits women from serving in "close combat" positions. The review, mandated every eight years by a European Union...
A Washington State woman who was diagnosed with terminal cancer has become the first person to commit physician-assisted suicide under the state's Death with Dignity Act . Linda Fleming had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and on Thursday took...
A jury in US District Court for the Western District of Kentucky on Thursday convicted former Pfc. Steven D. Green of the rape and murder of an Iraqi girl , and the...
Newly-declared Democratic Senator Arlen Specter (D-PA) was appointed chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs on Thursday. Specter received that post from Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) who voluntarily...
Al Qaeda operative Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri pleaded guilty Thursday to charges of conspiring to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization after reaching a plea agreement ...
US Department of Justice (DOJ) officials said Thursday that they would release at least 44 photographs "depicting the treatment of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan," pursuant to a court order. In a letter sent to...
US Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said Tuesday that the Obama administration doesn't have a plan to deal with detainees at Guantanamo Bay once the facility closes. McConnell, speaking before the...
