Alexander Hamilton wrote in the Federalist Papers that: “[T]he practice of arbitrary imprisonments [has] been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instrument of tyranny.”

He’s not allowed to pray and threatened 'to be sent to Chechnya'

This time, Pentagon defense lawyers are citing a new Guantánamo prison camp controversy involving inspection of confidential mail in their request for a delay in the Sept. 11 mass murder case.

A high-level source involved in building the case against terror suspect Umar Patek has revealed authorities in Indonesia are bracing for the possibility of reprisal attacks when the alleged Bali bomber goes on trial.

Two German nationals have pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey in London to possessing terrorist materials.

On Monday afternoon, Barack Obama became the first president to host a virtual town hall live on the Internet. While that might be a feat worthy of the record books, President Obama did something else during his address that America has become accustomed to: he lied to the world.

Defense attorneys for a detainee held at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base have asked a military judge to subpoena Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

An attorney for a Staten Island man accused of lying about his efforts to join a jihadist group in Pakistan wants a judge to keep his statements to FBI agents out of an upcoming trial.

WASHINGTON — Even as the Obama administration says it's close to defeating al-Qaida, the size of the government's secret list of suspected terrorists who are banned from flying to or within the United States has more than doubled in the past year, The Associated Press has learned.

Imprisoned Pakistani ran fake health scheme to get DNA evidence that al-Qa'ida leader was in house