Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Leon Panetta said Monday that the release of agency documents describing detainee interrogations would damage national security . In an affidavit filed with the US District Court...

Former Guantanamo Bay detainee at the center of a landmark Supreme Court case Lakhdar Boumediene said in an interview with ABC News released Monday that he was tortured by...

The US Supreme Court issued opinions in five cases on Monday. In Republic of Iraq v. Beaty and Iraq v. Simon, the Court ruled that Iraq has...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday called on the government of Sri Lanka to conduct a "proper investigation" of any "credible allegations of violations of humanitarian law" arising from the recent conflict between...

Amnesty International (AI) urged the UN Security Council to establish an international body to conduct an inquiry into war crimes allegedly committed in Sri Lanka , and to press the Sri Lankan government...

Rwandan Prosecutor General Martin Ngoga told the UN Security Council Thursday that the decisions by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) not to transfer pending cases to...

The US House Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies on Thursday denied the $60 million requested by President Barack Obama for the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility by...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday asked the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to remand the case of two convicted Alaska lawmakers to district court and to release the prisoners...

The US House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties on Thursday heard testimony on the state secrets privilege in advance of consideration of the State Secret Protection Act...

North Korean state media outlet Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) announced Thursday that the Pyongyang Central Court has begun the trial of two US journalists . Laura Ling and Euna...