US officials said Friday that Algerian Guantanamo Bay detainee Lakhdar Boumediene has been released and sent to France . Boumediene was the named plaintiff in the US Supreme Court case Boumediene v....

US President Barack Obama announced Friday that he is reinstating the controversial military commission system to try some Guantanamo Bay detainees. Obama said that there will be changes to...

CACI International, Inc., et al. v. St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Co., US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, May 14, 2009 [holding that St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Co. has no duty to defend or indemnify...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay urged the US Wednesday to hold accountable those accused of committing torture under the Bush administration. Pillay welcomed the US as a new member of the UN...

The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled Thursday that the insurance company for defense contractor CACI International’s has no duty to defend or indemnify CACI against claims of torture at...

German Social Democratic Party (SPD) lawmakers said Thursday that they will not support a recently proposed bill that would ban paintball in response to a March school shooting that left 16 dead , including...

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Andrei Nesterenko said Thursday that Russia has proposed changes to the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty (CFE) . The 1990 treaty restricts the number of troops and...

New Hampshire Governor John Lynch said Thursday that he is willing to sign a same-sex marriage bill into law, but only if the legislature amends it to make it clear that religious...

Spain's Cabinet approved a draft bill Thursday that would liberalize Spanish abortion law. The new bill, which must now be approved by Parliament, would give women the right to an abortion...

Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said Thursday that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) misled Congress about the use of enhanced interrogation techniques during the Bush...