A US district judge in Tucson Friday dismissed a controversial case against two humanitarians arrested in July 2005 for aiding illegal immigrants they found in need of emergency medical attention in the Arizona desert. At the time of their...
New Orleans Judge Arthur Hunter is slated to start reviewing the records of New Orleans prisoners in view of their possible release on Tuesday, the one year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina , which...
US government lawyers and US military lawyers are butting heads as the White House attempts to limit the role of the latter in framing draft legislation that would change the rules for trials of suspected terrorists, the Boston Globe...
Iraqi Defense Minister Hashem al Shebli said Saturday according to McClatchy Newspapers that the notorious Abu Ghraib prison is now empty as US officials have recently finished moving the prison's remaining 3,600 prisoners to other US-run...
The US Department of Defense announced Saturday that it has transferred to Afghanistan five detainees formerly held as enemy combatants in Guantanamo Bay . It is unclear where these detainees are from and...
A US journalist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner working in Africa on a National Geographic magazine assignment was charged in a Sudanese court Saturday with espionage, reporting false information and entering the country illegally. Paul Salopek...
The US Second Circuit Court of Appeals Thursday upheld the constitutional authority of the US president to regulate financial transactions with foreign countries involving the United States. The court rejected a claim by a...
British police charged 24-year-old Umair Hussain Thursday with failing to disclose information that could have prevented a terrorist attack, specifically an alleged plan to blow up US-bound planes over the Atlantic. Hussain...
The Tashkent City Court in Uzbekistan Wednesday ordered the closure of another US nongovernmental organization (NGO) operating in the country, stating the group's failure to provide accurate information about its activities as one of the chief...
US Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Wednesday that US Border Patrol officials are now detaining nearly all non-Mexican illegal immigrants caught crossing the US-Mexico border for an average of 21 days...
