A British judge announced Wednesday that he has dropped charges against five British soldiers accused of abusing Iraqi detainees in Basra, while continuing charges against two British co-defendants in their ongoing court-martial. The ruling was issued Tuesday,...

The European Parliament voted 382-256 Wednesday to approve a report condemning member states for cooperating with the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in operating illegal secret prisons and extraordinary rendition flights in Europe. Seventy-four...

US Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-CT) on Tuesday introduced in the Senate the Restoring the Constitution Act of 2007 , legislation that would restore habeas corpus rights to all US-held detainees, ban the use of evidence...

US military branches continue to accept a greater number of recruits with criminal records, granting recruiting waivers , according to data compiled by the US Defense Department. The Army accepted over twice as many recruits...

Argentina has made a formal request that Spain extradite former Argentine President Isabel Peron , officials from the Argentinean Foreign Ministry said Tuesday. The request was made in connection to Federal Judge Raul Acosta's investigation...

Islamic American Relief Agency v. Gonzalez, US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, February 13, 2006 [ruling upholding a freeze on the assets of an Islamic charity on the grounds that it was affiliated with the Islamic African...

Freed Egyptian cleric Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr , the victim of an alleged 2003 CIA kidnapping and extraordinary rendition from Milan, is planning a lawsuit against the...

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday upheld a freeze on the assets of the Islamic-American Relief Agency of Columbia, Missouri on the grounds that it was...

US Marine Lance Cpl. Robert B. Pennington pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges of murder, kidnapping, housebreaking, larceny and conspiracy for his role in the death of Iraqi civilian Hashim Ibrahim Awad in Hamdania...

A federal judge in Raleigh, North Carolina Tuesday sentenced David Passaro to eight years and four months in prison as well as three years of supervised release on charges related...