BERLIN, Feb. 26 -- A United Nations special investigator has concluded in a report scheduled for release Friday that foreign intelligence agents sent to question U.S.-held terrorism suspects at...
In his recent State of the Union address, President Barack Obama declared that the US would complete its military mission in Afghanistan by the end of this year and "America's longest war will...
An Owings Mills High School graduate who helped al-Qaida carry out a deadly hotel bombing in Indonesia endured years of torture by the CIA, including being waterboarded in an ice bath, his lawyers...
The lawyer representing Tariq Ba Odah, a detainee at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who began a hunger strike in 2007, said Friday that his client had lost more than half of his...
Lawyers for a Guantanamo prisoner on hunger strike are challenging a military doctor’s assertion that he is clinically stable even though his weight has dropped to around 75 pounds (34 kilograms)...
President Barack Obama released his long-awaited plan for closing the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, saying he doesn't want the next U.S. president -- no matter who it is -- to have to keep...
Retired senior military officers and human rights advocates are reacting with disgust at Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump’s description of the Geneva Conventions as a “problem” for...
Daniel McGowan was returning to his cell in the Sandstone, Minn., federal prison when he learned he was shipping out. At first he didn’t know where, or why, which is standard procedure for the U.S...
It was the defining promise of the early days of the “hope and change” administration: President Obama would signal a new era of U.S. engagement with the world by closing, within a year, the...
Innocent men detained for months or years after the Sept. 11 attacks on suspicion of being Muslim got their day in the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday. The odds don’t look good. The court will...
