Preparations for the establishment of an international tribunal to try those accused of killing former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and others in a Beirut bombing in February 2005 are almost complete, according to a Lebanese...

Presiding US District Judge Leonie Brinkema Thursday warned prosecutors in the sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui against making any indication to jury members that Moussaoui was obligated to tell FBI agents about his terrorist...

Letter on force-feeding and restraint of Guantanamo Bay hunger strikers, Dr. David Nicholl and others, The Lancet, March 9, 2006 [urged the US government to ensure that detainees at Guantanamo Bay are examined by independent physicians and that methods such...

The European Court of Human Rights based in Strasbourg announced Thursday that it has received an application from French Muslims asking it to declare the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad ...

US Defense Department officials said Thursday afternoon that reports originating from earlier statements by a military spokesman in Iraq that the US intended to close Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison within three months...

The Tennessee Senate on Thursday passed a bill to remove from Tennessee constitutional law any guarantees of a woman's right to abortion. The vote was 24-9. Under Tennessee law, both chambers of the...

In an extension of an earlier lawsuit , the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights filed motions in federal court...

In an open letter in the British medical journal Lancet , more than 250 doctors from seven countries have urged the US government to ensure that detainees at Guantanamo Bay are examined...

An official of Iraq's Supreme Judicial Council has confirmed that Iraqi authorities executed 13 insurgents by hanging Thursday in Baghdad, the first official executions of insurgents carried out in the country since the restoration of the death penalty [JURIST...

President Bush has signed legislation to renew the USA PATRIOT Act , making permanent several sunsetting provisions in the anti-terror law, extending two provisions until 2009, and incorporating a number of new rights...