U.S. Afghan fighter sues news agency
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A U.S. citizen once convicted of running a private jail in Afghanistan for terror suspects and torturing them has sued The Associated Press, alleging it engaged in defamation, libel and slander.
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HERAT, Afghanistan  - A renegade Afghan commander  seized ground in fresh fighting in the western province of  Herat on Tuesday, sources said, despite the deployment of  troops from Kabul to support the besieged governor.
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A U.N. human rights expert criticized the U.S.-led coalition forces in Afghanistan for violating international law by allegedly beating Afghans to death and forcing some to remove their clothes or wear hoods.
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A Saudi-American held in U.S. solitary confinement for nearly three years after being captured on an Afghan battlefield was quoted by a Saudi newspaper Saturday as saying he went to Afghanistan to do charity work, not aid the Taliban.
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A former US soldier who allegedly ran a private anti-terror campaign in Afghanistan repeatedly tried to contact a US Defense Department employee here but the Pentagon did not want anything to do with him, a defense official said.
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Dan Rather filed a $70 million lawsuit Wednesday against CBS, alleging that the network made him a "scapegoat" for a discredited story about President Bush's National Guard service.
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A U.S. journalism professor is  seeking to force the Pentagon to release images of coffins  bearing America's war dead arriving at the defense department  mortuary in Delaware, according to a lawsuit filed on Monday.
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US-led forces trying to protect landmark Afghan elections face a rising wave of violence from about 2,000 insurgents, including al-Qaida militants slipping in from Pakistan, an American general said Saturday.
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A former CIA contractor broke both agency rules and the law when he used a 2-foot-long metal flashlight to beat an Afghani man who later died, a prosecutor told a jury Monday in the trial of the first U.S. civilian charged with mistreating a detainee during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - A defense lawyer for one of three Americans accused of torturing a dozen Afghan prisoners in a private jail showed a video in court Monday of Afghanistan's former education minister congratulating the group and offering his help in arresting terrorists.    In the footage, former minister Yunus Qanooni, an influential figure in the Northern Alliance that helped the United States oust the hardline Taliban regime in late 2001, is shown meeting with Jonathan Idema, leader of the counterterrorism group, and promising help...
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Jose Padilla, the American citizen who was held in military detention for more than three years as an enemy combatant, filed a lawsuit against a lawyer who helped provide the legal justifications for the episode.
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Media groups expressed concern Thursday at the detention of an Afghan journalist with no explanation, days after a government magazine editor was arrested on unspecified charges.
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The former C.I.A. operative at the heart of the leak scandal sued the agency today over its refusal to allow her to publish a memoir.
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Six Navy SEALs and the wives of two of them sued The Associated Press and a reporter on Tuesday for publishing photos taken from a Web site that appeared to show the troops abusing prisoners in Iraq.
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Dan Rather filed a $70 million lawsuit against CBS and his former bosses Wednesday, claiming they made him a âscapegoatâ for a discredited story about President Bushâs military service during the Vietnam War.  The 75-year-old Rather, whose final mont...
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A journalism professor sued the government Monday to force the Defense Department to release pictures of flag-draped coffins of soldiers arriving in the United States from wars overseas.
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An former Soviet army soldier whose relatives were told he died a hero in the Afghan war nearly two decades ago &#151; and were given a coffin to bury &#151; appeared in an Uzbek courtroom Tuesday accused of membership in an al-Qaida-allied terrorist group.