The D.C. Circuit has affirmed district court Judge John Bates's denial of Shawali Khan's petition for a writ of habeas corpus.

My contribution to our 9/11 10th Anniversary Project concerns the role of the judiciary in relation to detention.  Well do I recall my reaction to the first wave of Guantanamo litigation back in the 2002...

* United States v. Mubayyid and Muntasser (1st Cir. Sep.

In kicking off Lawfare's 9/11 10th anniversary project devoted to laying bare our own non-trivial errors of analysis or understanding over the last decade, I have a number from which to choose. All, howe...

Over at the Weekly Standard's blog, Thomas Joscelyn has this piece critiquing a CNN report on Fayiz Mohammed Ahmed Al Kandari, whose habeas case we have covered here.

In prior posts such as this one, I've noted that the United States eventually will transfer control over the Detention Center in Parwan to Afghan authorities.  The most recent goal for that transfer was ...

Stepping out of his persona as a Guantanamo habeas lawyer, David Remes writes in with the following comments in response to my recent post on fears that Al Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula is working on ...

Esquire magazine has this lengthy feature on Guantanamo detainee and convicted war criminal Noor Uthman Muhammad. It's a sympathetic account, one that treats Uthman chiefly as a victim. But it contains e...

This is a nice illustration of the fact that in at least some circumstances, the United States simply must use civilian criminal courts if it wants to have its hands on a terrorism-related suspect--not t...

Al Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula is working on a ricin attack: WASHINGTON — American counterterrorism officials are increasingly concerned that the most dangerous regional arm of Al Qaeda is trying to p...

The Washington Post is reporting, in what is hardly a surprise, that we shouldn't expect the United States to give up the Bagram detention facility any time soon: BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan — The Unite...