Gitmo detainee Abu Zubaydah asked the European Court of Human Rights to rule on whether Poland violated his rights by hositng a secret CIA prison where was tortured.
Defense lawyers for the five accused 9-11 conspirators petitioned a US military judge at Guantánamo Bay to preserve the prisons where the defendants were held as evidence.
The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit vacated the conspiracy conviction of Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al-Bahlul, former media secretary of Osama bin Laden.
Islamist mujahedeen fighters in northern Mali. Even as jihadist militias surge south from their territory in Mali’s desert north towards the capital Bamako, the movement is splintering—and French military intervention raises the stakes. Writer Andy Morgan, famous as co-manager of… Read moreIslamist mujahedeen in northern Mali
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that lawyers for a detainee at Guantánamo Bay may not review “top secret” materials related to the case.
Leftists are ironically rallying around Chuck Hagel as Obama's apparent pick for Secretary of Defense—a conservative Republican who is wary of the neocons but close to Big Oil.
Obama signed the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act into law—with measures prohibiting use of funds to transfer individuals detained at Guantánamo.
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Macedonia is responsible for the torture and degrading maltreatment of Khaled el-Masri, found to be a victim of CIA “rendition.”
Civil and human rights groups are protesting Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s proposed amendment to the 2013 NDAA, saying it paradoxically loans legal cover to indefinite detention.
Was Rear Admiral Charles M. Gaouette sacked from his command of a Pacific carrier battle group last month because he was plotting a putsch against Obama?
Workers’ rally outside the Port-au-Prince industrial park, Oct. 8. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her husband Bill Clinton, US special envoy to Haiti, were both on hand for the opening of the new Caracol Industrial Park, a 617-acre tax-exempt… Read moreHaiti: Hidden costs of the industrial zone
