The US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York on Tuesday announced charges against an Afghan of conspiring to finance terrorist activity. Haji Juma Khan, who was already detained on charges of...

The US Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) on Tuesday declassified a November 2008 report detailing the extent of top Bush administration officials' involvement in implementing severe interrogation techniques employed by US military...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) might drop charges of disclosing national defense secrets against former pro-Israel lobbyists Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman, a senior official said Tuesday. Government...

A Chilean judge has charged three former Pinochet-era military officers as accomplices for their role in the October 1973 killings of 14 leftist political opponents as part of the so-called "Caravan of Death" ....

A lawyer for the relatives of 17 sailors killed in the 2000 al Qaeda attack on the USS Cole said Tuesday that the families will receive compensation from the Sudan...

A Russian court Tuesday ordered the release on parole of Svetlana Bakhmina, the former lawyer for Russian oil firm OAS Yukos Oil Co. . Bakhmina was convicted of embezzlement and tax evasion in...

Alleged Somali pirate Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse, captured by US forces following an attempted attack on the container ship Maersk Alabama , was charged Tuesday and will be tried as an adult following a ruling by federal...

US President Barack Obama said Tuesday that he would not rule out the possibility of prosecuting lawyers responsible for authoring memos released last week outlining CIA interrogation policies. Obama had previously said that he would not...

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday heard oral arguments in two cases. In Safford United School District No. 1 v. Redding , the Court will consider...

A Spanish judge on Tuesday charged Jurdan Martitegi Lizaso , the alleged leader of the Basque separatist group ETA with murder for allegedly executing a car bomb in May 2008...