“There is no celebration marking the 10th anniversary of Saddam Hussein’s statue destruction, rather [there are] popular protests” Wadah Khanfar, President of Al Sharq Forum and former Director General for Al Jazeera

Khalid al-Fawwaz is the least known of the five prisoners facing extradition to the US but has served the most time  - 14 years without trial.

Despite being the eleventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks the US legacy of secret prisons and torture won't be forgotten by simply handing over the prison facilities to others

Almost two and half years ago, I wrote about the murder of Abdul Manan Gul Rehman in a CIA black site facility known as the Salt Pit in Afghanistan. The news that he had been killed was received eight years after the fact.

IT’S OFFICIAL - George W Bush is a war criminal. And the harrowing evidence given in person by ex-Guantanamo detainee Moazzam Begg, helped a panel of five judges reach their historic verdict.

أعلن الجيش الأميركي أمس السبت الإفراج المشروط عن نائب العريف الأميركي الذي حكم عليه بالسجن عشر سنوات لدوره في فضيحة ممارسة التعذيب في سجن أبو غريب العراقي عام 2004

أيدت المحكمة العليا الأمريكية رفض دعوى قضائية تتهم موظفي شركتين امنيتين متعاقدتين مع وزارة الحرب الأمريكية (البنتاغون) بالمشاركة في تعذيب معتقلين عراقيين في سجن أبو غريب سيء الصيت

A big revelation from Bob Woodward's new book Obama's Wars is that the CIA maintains a 3000-strong Afghan paramilitary force that conducts cross-border operations into Pakistan. Though news to the U.S. public, these abusive paramilitary forces are unfortunately far too well known to many Afghan civilians.

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, the Taliban's shadow government, has denounced former British Prime Minister Tony Blair for calling "radical Islam" the "greatest threat" to the world. In a statement dated September 14, 2010, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan also accused the Western nations of diluting and distorting the "principles of Islam" in order to maintain their control of Islamic lands.

Since my return from Guantanamo I've received numerous communications from US soldiers - some former and others still serving - male and female, black, white and Hispanic. Most were my guardsmen in Guantanamo, Bagram or Kandahar. One of them was even an interrogator. Others are veterans of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan; two of them have visited me and the former prisoners in the UK. A few have even embraced Islam. 

Moazzam Begg's powerful presentation to the Law Society  in 2006 for the Graham Turnbull Award ceremony on the merits of torture