U.S. military prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for six Guantanamo Bay detainees charged Monday in connection with the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, a Pentagon official said. - "The chief prosecutor has requested that the charges be tried jointly and that they are referred as capital in each defendant," Brig.-Gen. Thomas Hartmann told reporters as he announced the charges. - Among those charged is Khalid Sheik Mohammed, who reportedly described himself in interrogations as the mastermind of the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in New York and Washington. - "I was responsible for the 9/11 operation, from A to Z," U.S. transcripts presented in Guantanamo hearings last March quoted Mohammed as saying. - According to the transcripts, Mohammed also confessed to executing Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and beheaded in Pakistan in 2002. - The accused face a total of 169 charges, including...
Russian soldiers began pulling down a major checkpoint in Georgia their first such move almost a month after a brief but bitter war. The troops began moving sandbags from the checkpoint near the...
Russia faced increased diplomatic isolation over its military action against Georgia on Thursday (August 28), as Russia and Georgia traded harsh words during an open United Nations Security Council...
The international community should impose more sanctions on Iran an Israeli spokesman said on Wednesday (September 24) after Israel called the Iranian president's speech to the United Nations as...
Representatives from more than 90 countries and international organizations pledged $7.4 billion over the next three years to help revive the Palestinian economy. At the Paris conference on...
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Israeli legislators dismissed on Wednesday (July 9) Iranian threats to target the Jewish state as Iran test-fired nine missiles and warned the United States and Israel it was ready to retaliate if...
Libya and South Africa, trying to block the International Criminal Court from indicting Sudan's leader for genocide, want the U.N. Security Council to prevent such a move in a resolution extending...
North Korea celebrates the 60th anniversary of its founding with what is expected to be the biggest parade of its military might just as the reclusive state appears to be backing away from a...
North Korea handed over a long-delayed account of its nuclear activities on Thursday (June 26), the White House said, a step that will bring the North relief from U.S. sanctions but still leave...
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