Fifteen Guantanamo detainees who have been cleared of wrongdoing in March by Combatant Status Review Tribunals that concluded they were not properly classed as "enemy combatants" are still being held at the facility...

US Marines detained 19 employees of North Carolina-based Zapata Engineering for 3 days, after reportedly witnessing the contractors open fire on troops and civilians in Iraq, the US military announced Tuesday. The employees, including 16 Americans, most...

A father and son have been arrested and charged with lying to federal agents after the son admitted to attending an al-Qaida training camp in Pakistan, the FBI said on Tuesday. Hamid Hayat, 22, is charged with...

Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Alvaro Gil-Robles Wednesday criticized the UK for its methods of detaining terror suspects . In a report to the Council Gil-Robles specifically targeted "control orders", a form...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen , a former Khmer Rouge soldier, responded to an opposition proposal Wednesday by saying that the families of the 1.7 million victims of the hardline communist Khmer Rouge regime that ruled...

Theodor Meron , president of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia said Tuesday that the tribunal will miss a 2008 trial completion date set by the UN Security Council, extending at least into 2009. Meron...

The US will end its lone opposition to Mohamed ElBaradei , Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency Wednesday in exchange for concessions involving Iran and the fight against nuclear arms proliferation. ElBaradei is arriving...

Doe v. Moore, et al., United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, June 6, 2005 . Excerpt:In...

2004 Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report, FBI, June 6, 2005 . Excerpt:The number of violent crimes reported to law enforcement agencies in the...

The US Senate Finance Committee released a report Tuesday saying stricter laws may be necessary to prevent insider deals, regulate moneymaking ventures, and open more activities to public scrutiny in large nonprofit organizations. The recommendation follows a two-year investigation...