So reports NPR here.

This is a pretty remarkable development.  Authorities have arrested a dual US-Iranian citizen on charges that he conspired with a senior official of Iran's Qods Force (of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionar...

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan has released its report on the treatment of detainees in the custody of the Afghan government. Here is the executive summary: From October 2010 to Au...

Next Tuesday, October 18, at The Heritage Foundation: [T]he House and Senate have proposed additional detainee-related legislation in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of 2012.  Both have pro...

I'm not going to do a full oral argument summary of this morning's case before the D.C. Circuit, Al Zahrani v. Rodriguez, since it was not a habeas merits case. And the issue it raises, whether the famil...

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments on Thursday in the case of Al-Zahrani v. Rodriguez, which--believe it or not--is not a Guantanamo habeas case.

Josh Gerstein reports that Senator Reid has announced that he will not allow the NDAA for FY'12 to come to the floor for a vote until concerns over section 1031, 1032, and 1033 are addressed.  As you may...

The arraignment order by Military Judge James L. Pohl in the case USA v. al-Nashiri is now available here, and here is the substance of it: 1. As the Chief Judge of the Military Commissions Trial Judicia...

CNN is reporting that Haji Mali Khan, the senior commander of the Afghan Haqqani insurgent group, was captured in a joint Afghan-NATO operation on Tuesday (the announcement of his capture was delayed unt...

Yesterday, the New York Times reported that Samir Khan, a 25-year old U.S. citizen from North Carolina, was killed in the same drone strike that targeted Anwar al-Aulaqi.

On Tuesday, lawyers for Abdulrahman Abdou Abou Alghaith Suleiman filed this letter with the Clerk of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.  The letter replies to an ear...

The case is United States v.