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Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, Supreme Court of the United States, June 29, 2006 . Excerpt from the Opinion by Justice Stevens:Petitioner Salim Ahmed Hamdan,...

Lawyers for David Hicks , an Australian held by the US at the Guantanamo Bay detention center , may seek judicial review of the UK Foreign Office's decision not to petition the US...

The first commissioned US military officer to publicly refuse to join the war in Iraq did so Wednesday, calling the war "unlawful" in a taped statement played at a press conference in Tacoma, Washington, near the US...

A federal judge Friday stayed the military commission trial of a Saudi Arabian man who has been held at the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay since 2002 for allegedly plotting with members of al Qaeda...

JURIST Guest Columnist Ron Dudai of the SOAS School of Law at the University of London (UK) says that the dubious US response to 9/11 has given Israel an excuse to engage in its own questionable practices, as reflected by...

JURIST Guest Columnist Glenn Sulmasy, a professor of law at the US Coast Guard Academy, says it's time for US military commissions to evolve and morph into a national security court appropriate to handle the international jihadist threat... The Global...

The floor of the Afghan parliament has witnessed its first outbreak of violence, with lawmakers physically and verbally assaulting a controversial female legislator who called several of the country's mujahedeen leaders criminals unfit for public office. Female colleagues of...

American-educated Saudi and alleged al Qaeda suspect Ghassan Abdullah al Sharbi denied before a pre-trial military commission hearing at Guantanamo Bay Thursday that he was guilty of war crimes , but...

Nineteen-year-old Canadian Omar Khadr refused to take part in military commission proceedings during a pretrial hearing at Guantanamo Bay Wednesday, claiming that he was mistreated and sent to...

An Afghan court Saturday found Asadullah Sarwari , head of the country's intelligence department in the communist era, guilty of ordering hundreds of murders and sentenced him to death. Sarwari, who defended himself in the one-day trial, is...