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Top Iranian forces commander and architect of military operations, Qasem Soleimani, was killed early Friday in Baghdad by a drone strike ordered by US President Donald Trump, the Pentagon announced. Suleimani, leader of the US-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and top commander of Iranian security and intelligence operations, was [...]

The US House passed a $736 billion National Defense Authorization Act for 2020 bill on Wednesday. It will be voted on by the Senate next week and is expected to be signed into law by President Donald Trump. The bill was passed by a 377-48 vote and largely seen as a compromise between Republicans and [...]

A three-judge panel from the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has denied an appeal from a defense contractor to halt a lawsuit over their involvement in the 2004 Abu Ghraib prison scandal. The lawsuit was filed by a group of Iraqi citizens who alleged that numerous US military and civilian contractors conspired [...]

Chinese telecommunications company Huawei filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the US government to block the enforcement of a law that prohibits government agencies from using equipment from Huawei.  The lawsuit marks the latest escalation of a dispute that has already seen the US government warn citizens against purchasing Huawei products and ban their sale on [...]

US District Judge Leonie Brinkema on Wednesday allowed a lawsuit brought by three former inmates of Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq against military contractor CACI Premier Technology to proceed. The case, originally filed in 2008 by the Center for Constitutional Rights, alleges that military police (MPs) tortured the prisoners at the direction of civilian contractors [...]

Former US intelligence contractor Reality Winner was sentenced to 63 months in prison on Thursday after she accepted a plea deal  with federal prosecutors in June. Winner pleaded guilty to charges  of willful retention and transmission of national defense information. In May 2017 Winner kept a classified National Security Agency report concerning a Russian cyberattack [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled  Tuesday that photographs of detainees taken by US military personnel can be withheld from release. In 2003 the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) for the release of photographs depicting torture at military detention facilities in [...]

Here's the domestic legal news we covered this week: The Democratic National Committee (DNC) filed a lawsuit Friday against Donald Trump, Russia, Julian Assange, Wikileaks, and several Trump aids including Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and...

Here's the international legal news we covered this week: Amnesty International (AI) on Friday released a report detailing humanitarian crisis incidents that may amount to war crimes in the Philippines. The chief judge of the...

JURIST Guest Columnist Andrew Wright of the Savannah Law School discusses President Trump's newly revised travel ban...On September 24th, President Donald Trump issued a presidential proclamation revising the entry suspensions and restrictions outlined in Executive Order 13780, issued March 6,...