The US government on Thursday amended a complaint against Islamic charity the Alavi Foundation to include a request for the seizure of assets, including four mosques, claiming that the organization is actually controlled by the Iranian government....

More than 18,000 refugees have been unfairly denied permanent residency or asylum in the US due to the expanding definition of "terrorist activity" in the USA Patriot Act and Real ID Act...

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Thursday that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) did not violate the free speech rights of former agent Valerie Plame when...

Computer microchip manufacturer Intel on Thursday agreed to settle all outstanding legal issues with rival Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) by paying paying its competitor $1.25 billion. The terms of the settlement were laid out in press releases...

A Tajikistan native held at Guantanamo Bay has challenged a federal judge's decision to suspend his habeas corpus proceedings after he was cleared for transfer to Tajikistan. Umar Hamzayevich Abdulayev alleges that Judge...

The likely failure to meet the self-imposed deadline for the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility is due to several missteps by the Obama administration, according to a report released Tuesday by the...

A Somali judge known for jailing suspected pirates , human traffickers, and Islamist insurgents was shot dead Wednesday while leaving a mosque in the Puntland city of Bossaso. Judge Mohamed Abdi Aware of the Puntland high court...

The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Thursday reduced the sentence of former Bosnian Serb general Dragomir Milosevic from 33 years to 29 years...

Chinese citizens are being abducted by state agents and illegally detained in "black jails" where they are subjected to a host of human rights violations, according to a report released Thursday by Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy...

The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington DC pledged Tuesday to end its involvement in social services if a same-sex marriage bill is approved by the city council. The religious organization claims that the bill interferes with...