A Jordan Public Security Department spokesman said Sunday that five suspected al-Qaida prisoners started a hunger strike on Tuesday to protest sentences handed down by Jordan's State Security Court in 2000. The prisoners are being...

Senators John McCain (R-AZ), Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and John Warner (R-VA) are drafting a bill which would provide clear and uniform rules for detention, interrogation and prosecution of prisoners during wartime, according to a new...

An official from the Iraqi Special Tribunal established to try Saddam Hussein said Saturday that no date has been set for the former dictator's trial, despite a report earlier this week that the date...

The US military command in Iraq Saturday announced charges against eleven US soldiers for violating the Uniform Code of Military Justice by assaulting several suspected insurgents. The charges were filed Wednesday and came after another soldier...

Iraq's deputy UN ambassador Fesial al-Istrabadi said Friday that independent investigators have found evidence of "gross mismanagement" and potential corruption in the UN Oil-for-Food program related to currency exchange rates with the fluctuating dinar. Independent Inquiry...

Gerry Spence , the lawyer for Brandon Mayfield, the Muslim-convert Portland attorney arrested and accused of involvement in Madrid's 2004 terrorist bombings, said in court Friday that FBI agents intentionally withheld information from a judge...

The US DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was correct in denying a nonprofit group's petition to regulate industrial gases and automobile emission pollutants that contribute...

AP is reporting that US Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist is spurning rumors of his retirement after admission to the hospital this week for a fever, saying he will serve as long as his health allows...

US Senators said Thursday at a Senate Armed Services subcommittee hearing that Congress should enact legislation to define the legal status of prisoners being held at Guantanamo Bay, while the Pentagon called such a plan too...

Four leading women in the US Senate Thursday asked Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor to reconsider her resignation if Justice William Rehnquist makes the decision to retire. The request from Senators Mary Landrieu (D-LA), Barbara Boxer...