War on Terror

With his latest media blitz, Dick Cheney hopes to preserve and solidify the “war on terror” as the dominant narrative presented to Americans as an explanation of US foreign …

Ten years after the first publication of photos from inside the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, Al Jazeera journalist Salah Hassan speaks about his torture by US forces inside …

Karen J. Greenberg explores the shameful tale of why, a decade later, the Abu Ghraib affair remains without an end.

This week, President Jose “Pepe” Mujica offered to welcome detainees from the US's detention center at its base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The United States' compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights includes violations that must be sanctioned.

One Russian prisoner, released from Guantanamo Bay for lack of any evidence, remains imprisoned in Russia, an expedient scapegoat for dubious antiterrorism policies, says Aisha Maniar.

Officials were required to offer absolutely no evidence for their extraordinary claims that Snowden was a “Russian agent” on the three major broadcast networks.

In 2004, at the height - or depths - of George W. Bush's presidency, the very idea of protesting his “war on terror” or invasion of Iraq was deemed …

It's been 12 years since the prison at Guantanamo Bay opened, and the fundamental issues of indefinite detention and perpetual war remain.

Fifty years ago, exactly one month after John Kennedy was killed, the Washington Post published an op-ed titled