WASHINGTON — CIA lawyers sought guarantees the US spy agency would never be prosecuted for torturing suspects after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, while other staff warned the program was an impending ...

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A damning report from the US Senate reveals how the CIA used waterboarding, ‘rectal feeding’, mock executions, sleep deprivation, stress positions and other cruel and degrading treatment against ...

The ACLU filed a lawsuit against James Elmer Mitchell and John “Bruce” Jessen, two psychologists contracted by the CIA to design, implement, and oversee the agency’s post-9/11 torture program. The ...

Journalist James Risen: CIA Torture Methods Caused Long-Term Psychological Harm to Former Prisoners; The White Helmets: As Syria Death Toll Mounts, Meet the Rescue Workers Saving Thousands of Lives; ...

The government has apologised to a barrister whose office was raided by state security officers after MI6 raised concerns about her access to documents about CIA torture programmes. The case centres ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Today marks the 10th anniversary of the release of the heavily redacted 500-page executive summary of the U.S. Senate Intelligence ...

Earlier this week the Senate Intelligence Committee released the long-awaited executive summary of its 6,000-page classified report on the CIA’s brutal post-9/11 detention and interrogation program.

With Bashar al-Assad having fled Damascus to one of his 20 luxury suites in Russia (valued at $30 million), it is worth taking note of a time, not that long ago, when Assad was on more amicable terms ...

Dec. 9 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1907, the first Christmas Seals to raise money to fight tuberculosis went on sale in the post office in Wilmington, Del. In 1955, two weeks of bloody student ...