The EU Parliament on Thursday approved the adoption of an agreement giving the US access to bank data in order to track the finances of suspected terrorists. Under the agreement, the US can...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Wednesday announced charges against five members of al Qaeda allegedly involved in the New York City subway bomb plot in September 2009. The attempted bombing...

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit released a partially redacted opinion Wednesday denying habeas corpus relief to Guantanamo Bay detainee Fawzi Khalid Abdullah Fahad Al Odah [JURIST...

A Sudanese terrorism suspect held at Guantanamo Bay pleaded guilty on Wednesday before a military judge to charges of conspiracy and providing material support for terrorism. Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al Qosi [DOD materials; JURIST...

The Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information announced Wednesday that he has initiated legal proceedings against Facebook for accessing and saving non-users' personal information. Dr. Johannes Caspar [official...

The Turkish Constitutional Court on Wednesday annulled portions of the government-approved constitutional amendments aimed at limiting the power of the judiciary and bringing the traditionally-secular military and judiciary under government...

The Obama administration filed a brief Tuesday asking a federal appeals court to reinstate the offshore drilling ban ordered after the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The filing in...

A complaint was filed with the Dutch prosecutor's office on Tuesday alleging that three Dutch soldiers, operating as UN peacekeepers, were complicit in the commission of war crimes and genocide during the 1995 Srebrenica massacre [BBC timeline; JURIST news...

A group of Chicago citizens on Tuesday filed suit against the city and Mayor Richard Daly claiming the the city's new gun control ordinance infringes on their constitutional rights. The new ordinance bans gun shops...

German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere announced Wednesday that Germany would accept two detainees from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. The announcement came after months of negotiations with the Obama administration, which...