The US House Armed Services Committee approved its version of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 Wednesday, a bill that would permit the use of military commissions for terror detainees and...
A Jordan military court concluded two separate terrorism cases Wednesday, convicting a total of 10 suspected militants, including two fugitives in absentia, of charges stemming from alleged plots to kill Americans in Jordan . The court sentenced...
Conrad Black , the Canadian-born former chairman of media company Hollinger International , pleaded not guilty in Chicago Friday to the latest tax evasion charges he faces stemming from his initial November...
Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet can now face human rights charges stemming from the torture of thousands of citizens at Villa Grimaldi prison , an infamous political detention center run by Pinochets secret...
The US military discovered several "torture chambers" northeast of Baghdad in May and June, Maj. Gen. Thomas R. Turner II , the senior commander of US and Iraqi forces in northern Iraq, said Friday. Turner told Pentagon reporters...
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said Thursday that its Division of Corporation Finance will begin drafting an amendment to an SEC Rule under the Securities Exchange Act of...
Back from their summer recess, US House and Senate lawmakers are considering bills this week that address the legality of the Bush administration's domestic surveillance program , which involves warrantless wiretapping by the National Security Agency [official...
The Belgrade District Court announced Wednesday that a new presiding judge has been named in the trial of 13 suspects charged with the March 2003 assassination of former Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic [BBC obituary;...
Twenty-eight days after initially detaining five British Muslim men among almost two dozen others arrested early last month in connection with an alleged terror plot to blow up US-bound planes over the Atlantic, Scotland Yard ...
An attorney for US Army Sgt. Ricky Clousing , an Iraq war veteran, said Thursday that his client will face a desertion charge at a special court-martial stemming from his June 2005 defection from Fort Bragg ....