Egyptian cleric Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr has gone on trial in absentia in Italy on charges of criminal association with the goal of terrorism and aiding illegal emigration with the goal of terrorism, based on an...
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Federal appeals court upholds terrorism conviction for aiding al Qaeda
The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit on Wednesday upheld the 2011 conviction of Tarek Mehanna, who was found guilty on four terror-related charges and three charges of lying to authorities. Mehenna was accused...
US military special forces on Saturday captured Abu Anas al Libi, a suspected high-ranking operative of al Qaeda , during a raid conducted in Tripoli, Libya. US authorities allege that al Libi played a significant...
The office of Italy's president on Thursday confirmed that it has received a pardon request from a former Milan Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) station chief who was sentenced to nine years in prison...
Europe rights court rejects new request for extradition of terror suspect to US
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Wednesday rejected a new request for the extradition of Haroon Aswat, a former aide to Egyptian-born Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri , from the UK...
Federal judge sets January trial date for Bin Laden's son-in-law
Judge Lew Kaplan of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York announced on Tuesday that the trial of Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, son-in-law of Osama Bin Laden , is scheduled...
Italy pardons US colonel in CIA extraordinary rendition case
Italian president Giorgio Napolitano on Friday pardoned US Air Force Colonel Joseph Romano of his conviction related to the US Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) abduction and extraordinary rendition of Egyptian cleric...
Bin Laden son-in-law pleads not guilty to charges of al Qaeda involvement
A son-in-law of Osama Bin Laden pleaded not guilty on Friday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York to conspiracy to kill US citizens . Sulaiman...
Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, the son-in-law of Osama Bin Laden , has been captured and will be appear in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Friday to face...
Milan court convicts Italy spy chief for role in CIA extraordinary rendition
A Milan appeals court on Tuesday sentenced Niccolo Pollari, the former Italian spy chief, to 10 years in prison for his role in the kidnapping of a terror suspect as part of the US Central Intelligence Agency ...