Six US sailors have been charged for allegedly abusing Iraqi detainees held at Camp Bucca , the US Naval Forces Central Command said Thursday. The six are said to have physically assaulted at least two detainees...
The US Appeals Court for the Fifth Circuit ruled Thursday that anti-Castro militant Luis Posada Carriles will stand trial in the US for alleged immigration violations, effectively blocking extradition efforts by Cuba...
A military judge on Thursday ordered that military commissions legal advisor Gen. Thomas Hartmann will not participate in the Guantanamo trial of Afghan detainee Mohammed Jawad . The judge, Army...
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit brought by survivors of the 9/11 attacks against the nation of Saudi Arabia and four of its princes,...
The United States and Libya reached an agreement on Thursday to settle all pending lawsuits brought by US terror victims against Libya, including 26 lawsuits related to the 1988 bombing of Pan Am...
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals Thursday agreed to an en banc rehearing of a case brought by Canadian citizen Maher Arar seeking a declaratory judgment against...
A New Orleans judge on Wednesday threw out indictments against the so-called "Danziger Seven" , police officers accused of murder in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina . District Judge Raymond Bigelow ruled that prosecutors had violated...
Indonesia's Constitutional Court has accepted a death penalty challenge filed by three men condemned for their roles in the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings . Mukhlas, Imam Samudra and Amrozi Nurhasyim argue that death by firing squad...
Georgia filed a complaint against Russia with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Tuesday, alleging that invading Russian troops have engaged in murder, rape and mass displacement of civilians during the...
Nigeria officially turned over the entirety of the disputed Bakassi peninsula to neighboring Cameroon on Thursday, in compliance with a 2002 International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling . Basing its ruling on an old colonial agreement...
