A presidential special task force on interrogations and transfer policies issued its recommendations Monday calling on the Obama administration to create a specialized interrogation group to question top terrorist suspects. The task force, created by executive order...
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Monday that Guantanamo Bay detainee Mohammed Jawad has been repatriated to Afghanistan. Co-counsel for Jawad, US Air Force Major Frakt,...
Liberia's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) urged Thursday that several one-time military and political leaders be prosecuted in a special Liberian court for war crimes. Those named include ex-president Charles Taylor , now...
UK Armed Services Minister Bob Ainsworth said Sunday that the British military is again considering whether to change a policy that prohibits women from serving in "close combat" positions. The review, mandated every eight years by a European Union...
A Washington State woman who was diagnosed with terminal cancer has become the first person to commit physician-assisted suicide under the state's Death with Dignity Act . Linda Fleming had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and on Thursday took...
A jury in US District Court for the Western District of Kentucky on Thursday convicted former Pfc. Steven D. Green of the rape and murder of an Iraqi girl , and the...
Newly-declared Democratic Senator Arlen Specter (D-PA) was appointed chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs on Thursday. Specter received that post from Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) who voluntarily...
Al Qaeda operative Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri pleaded guilty Thursday to charges of conspiring to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization after reaching a plea agreement ...
US Department of Justice (DOJ) officials said Thursday that they would release at least 44 photographs "depicting the treatment of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan," pursuant to a court order. In a letter sent to...
US Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said Tuesday that the Obama administration doesn't have a plan to deal with detainees at Guantanamo Bay once the facility closes. McConnell, speaking before the...
