Tag: International law

Julian Assange's legal journey has been a rollercoaster of national security, press freedom, politics, and diplomacy. After years of fighting extradition from Britain to the United States, Assange agreed to plead guilty to one...

Ryan Watson, a 40-year-old man from Oklahoma, has finally been allowed to return to the United States after a harrowing experience in Turks and Caicos. In April, he was arrested at the country's main...

A former Al-Qaeda commander, Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, was sentenced by a U.S. military jury to serve a 30-year prison term for war crimes committed by his insurgent forces in Afghanistan in the early 2000s....

A military jury at Guantánamo Bay has started deliberating the sentence for a prisoner who admitted to commanding Qaeda and Taliban forces in Afghanistan, leading to war crimes. The panel consists of U.S. officers...

An American soldier, Staff Sgt. Gordon Black, 34, has been sentenced to nearly four years in a Russian prison after being arrested earlier this year. The sentencing came after Russian state media reported the...

The Biden administration is facing a dilemma regarding the $687 million in assets that a French company forfeited after admitting to aiding terrorist groups like ISIS. There is a disagreement between the State Department...

Years after the C.I.A. closed down its "black site" program, new details are slowly coming to light during trials at Guantánamo Bay. Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, a former Qaeda commander, shared his harrowing experience of...

China and the Philippines have been involved in a number of clashes in the South China Sea, which China claims as its own. This is part of a larger pattern of disputes that China...