Attorneys for 17 Muslims from China locked up inside a prison camp at Guantánamo asked the U.S. Supreme Court Friday to take on the case of the men whom a judge ordered set free eight months ago.
President Barack Obama is still deciding whether to go to federal court with the death penalty cases against five men accused of orchestrating the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, a Defense Department official has notified the thousands of victim family members.
The chief judge for the Pentagon's Military Commissions has bowed to a White House request and postponed until late September a war court hearing at Guantánamo Bay for a Saudi man accused of aiding al Qaeda, according to a document obtained by The Miami Herald.
The chief of the Pentagon war court has spurned a defense request for delay and ordered a Military Commission hearing that will address the issue of torture to go forward after Memorial Day at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
A Tunisian man detained after the Sept. 11 attacks was tortured at CIA-operated secret prisons in Afghanistan months before a Justice Department memo sanctioned the practices, a lawsuit filed Thursday alleges.
A Canadian Federal Court judge ruled Thursday that Prime Minister Stephen Harper must press the United States to return a Canadian citizen who is the last Western detainee at Guantánamo Bay.
A Spanish judge has asked the United States, Britain and three other countries about the whereabouts of an alleged senior al Qaeda member who was captured in Pakistan in 2005, a court official said Tuesday.
A federal appeals court overturned on Tuesday a judge's decision to give 17 Chinese citizens, now detained at Guantánamo Bay, 30 days notice of where the U.S. government will send them when they are released.
Muslims from China now held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, asked the Supreme Court on Monday to order their release into the United States.
The Obama administration moved Thursday to confront growing controversy over its efforts to alter Bush-era terror policies, inviting victims of al Qaeda attacks to meet with the president at the White House on Friday even as it withdrew charges against an alleged al Qaeda plotter held at Guantánamo.
An Army judge who is defying a White House request to freeze the Pentagon's war court ruled Thursday that he would decide at next week's hearing at Guantánamo whether the military's security measures impaired a captive's ability to defend himself.
An Army judge at Guantánamo has ignored a White House request for a 120-day war court freeze and ordered a Feb. 9 arraignment of an al Qaeda suspect.
A former U.S. attorney who was among nine fired by the Bush administration in 2006 has been working as a prosecutor of suspected terrorists at Guantánamo.
The last war-crimes session of the Bush administration was marked by antics from 9/11 defendants and pleas by relatives of 9/11 victims for swifter justice.
Guards shackled 9/11 terror suspect Ramzi bin al Shibh to the courtroom floor and suspect Khalid Sheik Mohammed again said he welcomed death Monday as the U.S. government sought to press ahead with its showcase war crimes trial on the eve of Barack Obama's inauguration.
Both the chief prosecutor and his defense counterpart sought delays in next week's war court sessions straddling the inauguration but two Army colonels denied the request
A federal judge in Washington who earlier ordered the release of some Algerians at Guantánamo to Bosnia on Wednesday further ordered the military to free a Gitmo captive from Chad who was captured at age 14.
The Pentagon turned the lights back on its special 9/11 war court Wednesday and arraigned a Sudanese captive accused of helping run a jihadist training camp in 1990s Afghanistan.
Guantánamo fact finder to be Obama's top Pentagon lawyer President-elect Barack Obama on Thursday chose as his Pentagon general counsel a New York attorney who led the transition team's fact-finding mission on what to do about the war court at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
A judge has ordered an independent medical exam for a Saudi prisoner at Guantánamo who has been on hunger strike for more than three years.
A Saudi captive accused of plotting an ill-fated al Qaeda terror attack waved a picture of Barack Obama at the war court Monday and urged the president-elect to make good on his promise to close the prison camps here.
In the dwindling days of the Bush administration, the U.S. Supreme Court takes yet another detainee rights case brought by captives and former captives in the war on terror.
A chaotic day at the Guantánamo war court featured an effort by five 9/11 attack suspects to enter guilty pleas in the death-penalty case.
With military commissions teetering on the edge of extinction, prosecutors pulled a witness in the case of a Canadian child soldier.
A Canadian lawyer is seeking support in San Francisco for a Toronto-born terror suspect slated to face a war crimes trial at Guantánamo in November.
An Army general testified against an Air Force general in a military lawyer's bid to get charges dismissed against a Guantánamo captive.
A military judge Wednesday spurned a Pentagon plan to have an FBI agent who was in New York on Sept. 11, 2001, testify as a victim at the sentencing hearing of Osama bin Laden's driver.
A federal appeals court announced Monday that it has overturned the Pentagon's classification of a Guantánamo Bay detainee as an enemy combatant. The judges ruled in favor of Huzaifa Parhat, 37, an ethnic Muslim Uighur, who is a Chinese citizen.
An Afghan captive sprang from his seat and asked a war-court judge to `give me time to talk about my sleeplessness.'
Repudiating the Bush administration, the Supreme Court ruled that Guantánamo detainees can challenge their extended imprisonment in federal court.
A group of alleged senior al Qaeda leaders -- held secretly by the United States and interrogated since 2003 -- appeared Thursday before a war court judge.
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba -- Alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed was granted -- and wielded -- the right to censor his own courtroom sketch Thursday.
Military prosecutors filed war crimes charges Friday against a Sudanese man at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, for allegedly running a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan in the late 1990s, where some of the 9/11 hijackers also allegedly trained.
A detainee who had vowed a boycott turned up at his war court hearing Thursday and asked to call his family in his native Sudan to help him hire a lawyer, with his own money.
In a rebuke, a military judge has disqualified a key Pentagon general from any role overseeing the war crimes trial of Osama bin Laden's driver.
In an emerging trend, a defiant Sudanese terror suspect on Thursday became the third war court defendant in a row to fire his lawyer and boycott his military trial.
A Saudi Arabian captive accused of plotting terror attacks at sea in the Middle East called the war court here a sham on Wednesday, fired his Pentagon lawyer and was sent back to his cell with a promise from his judge that his military trial would go on without him.
An American college professor whose Kenyan husband was killed in the 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Tanzania says a Guantánamo detainee accused in the attack should be tried in a civilian federal court, not by a military commission.
A military prosecutor swore out new death-penalty charges against a Guantánamo captive for war court trial in a U.S. Embassy bombing in East Africa.
For a third time, a military judge has authorized lawyers for Osama bin Laden's driver to send questions to alleged al Qaeda kingpins in segregation at Guantánamo.
Allegations of military abuse increasingly took center stage as the Guantánamo military commissions edged toward full-blown trials.
In a military commissions first, a Marine judge ordered a Guantánamo detainee to be shackled at the ankles at a chaotic hearing.
Accusing the Pentagon of a cover-up, human rights lawyers Thursday filed suit seeking the full transcripts of military hearings for the alleged senior leadership of the al Qaeda terror network.
Seventy percent of the 320 or so captives currently keep Korans -- 30 percent, or nearly 100, of the men do not.
In a surprise development for the on-again, off-again military commissions at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, the Pentagon's chief war crimes prosecutor has abruptly resigned in a dispute over his independence.
The Senate on Wednesday rejected legislation that would have allowed terrorist suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to petition federal courts claiming that they're being held in error.
With the Supreme Court poised to decide another Guantánamo case, foreign and domestic lawyers, lawmakers, diplomats and others are filing briefs defending the rights of the captives.
With plans scrapped for a massive war-crimes legal compound that might have cost $125 million, the Pentagon is now building a more modest tent city.
First military insider urges Congress to scrap the military-run reviews conducted at the U.S. Navy base detention center in southeast Cuba.
Guantánamo military judges dismissed war crimes charges against two detainees, citing the Pentagon's failure to comply with an act of Congress.
A Navy officer facing up to 13 years was sentenced to six months and will be dishonorably discharged for giving names of Guantánamo captives to a rights group in 2005.
The Pentagon renewed a terrorism case against Osama bin Laden's driver, resurrecting the conspiracy charge that he challenged all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Guantánamo's prison camps chief backed away from a proposed three-meeting limit between attorneys and detainees, saying the restrictions are no longer needed.
The Pentagon is undergoing some senior supervisory management changes in its units that run the war court.
Just as Guantánamo visitors never saw the entire story, the full picture of the first U.S. war-crimes tribunal since World War II emerged slowly.
In a surprise deal, an al Qaeda foot soldier from Australia trades silence on any possible Guantánamo abuse for a nine-month prison sentence in his homeland.
A Pentagon official quit to end a brouhaha over the service of pro-bono detainee defense attorneys.
Pressing forward with plans to try some Guantánamo captives, the Pentagon sent to Congress a manual for a war-crimes court that would permit hearsay evidence, coerced testimony and the execution of terrorists by order of the president.
A ruckus is brewing in legal circles over a Pentagon lawyer's targeting of law firms for providing free work to alleged terrorists.
The Navy lawyer who took the Guantánamo case of Osama bin Laden's driver to the U.S. Supreme Court - and won - has been passed over for promotion by the Pentagon and must soon leave the military.
In a major reversal of a keystone policy, the Bush administration declares all detainees in U.S. military custody are entitled to Geneva Convention protections that prohibit humiliating treatment and torture.
Osama bin Laden's driver praised Allah upon learning that the Supreme Court had sided with him against President Bush over military trials at U.S. prisons at Guantánamo.
The Supreme Court dealt the Bush administration a devastating legal loss in the war on terrorism, ruling that the president overstepped his constitutional authority by creating ad hoc military tribunals for prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
A prosecutor apologized to a Supreme Court justice, military judges differed on culturally appropriate attire and artists' sketches had a few surprises.
''I'm innocent and I'm not supposed to be here,'' said 27-year-old Binyam Ahmed Muhammad, who challenged virtually every portion of the Military Commissions proceedings.
A defense lawyer pleaded the Fifth Amendment and a captive who claims he was tortured dominated the most chaotic war-court session yet at Guantánamo.
The Supreme Court heard the case of Osama bin Laden's former driver who is challenging President Bush's right to try him before a military commission.
Osama bin Laden's driver is about to challenge President Bush's Military Commissions at the Supreme Court. At issue: Is the anti-terrorism court at odds with the U.S. Constitution?
The Pentagon will prohibit military commissions trying Guantánamo captives from including evidence gained through torture.
A captive facing conspiracy charges before a Military Commission raised the possibility during pre-trial hearings when, during questioning of a judge's competence to serve, the captive asked to be moved to a cell alongside the man known by his acronym ``KSM.''
Bush administration tells a federal appeals court commissions should be allowed to run their course before letting defendants appeal to U.S. courts.
Detainee tells Navy lawyer: "I don't want to make history. I just want to go home."
The decision by U.S. District Judge James Robertson, sitting 1,300 miles away in Washington, D.C., brought pretrial motions here to a skidding halt in the case of Yemeni captive Salim Hamdan, 34.
A lawyer for a suspected Sudanese terrorist wants to question former presidents Bush and Clinton and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
Opening the United States' first war crimes trial since World War II, the government charged a wiry Yemeni who worked as Osama bin Laden's chauffeur with conspiracy as a member of the al Qaeda network.
Navy lawyer got special clearance to speak to a Herald reporter about his client -- Osama bin Laden's ex-driver.
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