The US Defense Department said Tuesday that it has banned military officers and intelligence analysts from testifying on "Able Danger" , the highly classified US Army intelligence program alleged to have identified Mohammed Atta...

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...

The Authors Guild , an advocacy organization for published writers, together with a former Poet Laureate, a Lincoln biographer and a children's book author, Tuesday sued search engine and advertising giant Google alleging "massive...

The Saudi National Organization for Human Rights, the only human rights watchdog in Saudi Arabia , said Tuesday it has been banned from visiting Saudi prisoners in the US terror detention camp at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news...

Ahmed Omar Abu Ali , an American student who was detained in Saudi Arabia, claims to be the mastermind behind the plot to kill President Bush , according to court papers released Monday. The US Department of...

Simon Wiesenthal, an Austrian Holocaust survivor who helped to track down over 1,000 Nazi war criminals after World War II, including Adolf Eichmann and the policeman who arrested Anne Frank, died in his sleep at age 96 Tuesday. Rabbi...

Mexican prosecutor Ignacio Carrillo has made a second bid to arrest former Mexican president Luis Echeverria in connection with killings of student protesters, according to a statement made Monday by Echeverria's lawyer. Dozens of students and other...

British forces freed two British soldiers from an Iraqi jail Monday, though British and Iraqi officials are offering different accounts of what happened. The two freed British soldiers, thought to be undercover commandos, were arrested by the Iraqis earlier...

The trial of 15 Uzbek men , accused of organizing the May 2005 Andijan uprising which led to government troops killing as many as 500 protestors began Tuesday, but human rights groups are questioning...

A Iraqi government committee Monday lodged an official request to strip former defense minister Hazem Shaalan of immunity so that he can face charges of corruption and working for Saddam Hussein's intelligence service. The request was made...