A Jordan military court on Sunday sentenced al Qaeda's chief in Iraq Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and two others to death for a failed suicide bombing on the country's border with Iraq last year. Al-Zarqawi and one of the other suspects were sentenced in absentia, but the third, Saudi Fahd Noman Suwelim al-Feheiqi, was present for [...]

Citizens of Congo went to the polls Sunday for the first time in more than 30 years to vote on a draft constitution that could secure lasting peace in the country. Many of the 24 million registered voters in the country lined up outside polling stations early in the morning, with some banging on the [...]

The US House of Representatives on Saturday approved by voice vote the Terrorism Risk Insurance Extension Act of 2005 , which will extend for two years the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 , under which the federal government guarantees insurance coverage for catastrophic losses caused by terror attacks. The renewal legislation also passed by [...]

Texas Judge Pat Priest said Saturday that he will not immediately consider the request of Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX) to separate criminal charges against him. Earlier this month, Priest threw out criminal conspiracy charges against DeLay, leaving two money laundering charges . DeLay has asked the judge to sever the charges, allowing a quick trial, [...]

US government attorneys have asked the US Supreme Court to deny certiorari in the Jose Padilla case , where the court would decide whether an enemy combatant can be held indefinitely without charge. Padilla, the so-called dirty bomber, was detained in 2002 and had challenged his continued detention with the US Court of Appeals for [...]

Anti-Terrorism Act (No. 2) 2005, An Act to amend the law relating to terrorist acts, and for other purposes, published as approved by royal assent December 16, 2005. Read the full text of the act.

Jose Padilla v. C.T. Hanft, Supreme Court of the United States, December 10, 2005 . Read the full text of the brief . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005, passed by the US House of Representatives, December 16, 2005 . Read the full text of the legislation . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

German prosecutor Detlev Mehlis, the outgoing head of a UN committee investigating the February 14 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri , said Saturday that he is convinced Syrian authorities are responsible for Hariri's death. This was the first time that Mehlis unequivocally accused Syria of the assassination since the formal UN probe [...]

An anti-bribery panel for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) urged governments on Friday to dig deeper into evidence of kickbacks and corruption reported by an independent UN commission investigating the UN's now-defunct Iraq oil-for-food program . Only 11 of the 40 countries whose citizens have been implicated by the inquiry have requested [...]