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Byline: Louisa Loveluck and Mustafa Salim BAGHDAD - A flagship anti-corruption drive under the tenure of U.S.-backed Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi used incommunicado detention, torture and sexual violence to [...]

Byline: Maya Yang Vermont police have launched an investigation into hazing allegations surrounding the women's rugby team at Norwich University in the state, including allegations of branding and waterboarding. Police [...]

Defense lawyers said the delay cast into doubt whether samples taken from the captives could be considered valid evidence. GUANTÂNAMO BAY, Cuba -- Criminal investigators at Guantánamo Bay waited nearly [...]

Lawyers disclosed the unusual arrangement in evidentiary hearings to prepare for the Sept. 11 trial at Guantánamo Bay. GUANTÂNAMO BAY, Cuba -- In the torturous history of the U.S. government's [...]

Yang Hengjun has been shackled, cut off from all contact with his family and interrogated daily to make him confess to being a spy, his representatives said. SYDNEY, Australia -- [...]

This article was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. GUANTÂNAMO BAY, Cuba -- By the time the C.I.A. delivered Khalid Shaikh Mohammed to the military prison [...]

[What you need to know to start your day: Get New York Today in your inbox .] When Karina Vetrano was found beaten and strangled in a Queens park nearly [...]

[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox .] The case seemed airtight to prosecutors. A young man had confessed to beating [...]

ROME -- The Italian authorities deprived Amanda Knox of adequate legal assistance during a nightlong interrogation in 2007, Europe's top human rights court ruled on Thursday, the latest legal twist [...]

Byline: Dan Warburton Special police are quizzing colleagues of an Army recruit who was allegedly waterboarded at the elite military academy once home toPrinces William and Harry. The questioning is [...]

Byline: Keith Perry Two cadets atSandhurst military academyare being investigated over allegations they waterboarded a fellow recruit, it was reported last night. Two officer cadets allegedly pinned down their victim [...]

Byline: Shane Harris and Karoun Demirjian WASHINGTON - The Senate voted Thursday to confirm Gina Haspel as the next CIA director after several Democrats were persuaded to support her despite [...]

Byline: Karoun Demirjian WASHINGTON - The Senate Intelligence Committee moved Wednesday to recommend Gina Haspel for CIA director, setting up a floor vote that her opponents say will signal to [...]

WASHINGTON -- For more than three decades, Senator John McCain, who was brutally tortured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, has been a powerful and persuasive voice in Congress [...]

WASHINGTON -- A day after Gina Haspel, President Trump's nominee to lead the C.I.A., refused during her confirmation hearing on Wednesday to condemn the agency's torture of Qaeda suspects, several [...]

Gina Haspel has shown she has all the qualities to become the next director of the Central Intelligence Agency, except one. For 33 years with the agency, Ms. Haspel has [...]

Gina Haspel, President Trump's nominee to lead the Central Intelligence Agency, told senators at her confirmation hearing that she would not allow the agency to start another brutal interrogation program [...]

MS. HASPEL SAID '' C.I.A. historically has not done interrogations. '' THE FACTS This requires context. Ms. Haspel is right that before the enhanced interrogation program was created in response [...]

WASHINGTON -- President Trump's nomination of Gina Haspel to lead the C.I.A. has revived debate over the agency's post-Sept. 11 interrogation program and still-murky questions about her involvement. Now, on [...]

For nearly five years, Brooklyn's criminal-justice system has been engaged in an unprecedented project as prosecutors, judges and lawyers have pored over scores of cases connected to the former star [...]

Byline: Andrew Roth MOSCOW - For the first time since gruesome accounts of the systematic detention and torture of gay men began leaking out of Russia's republic of Chechnya, a [...]

How much responsibility should an individual bear for questionable actions within a system that encourages them? Does a time of crisis call for departing from long-held values -- or do [...]

WASHINGTON -- Senators, spies and a president spent years in a pitched battle over how the history is told of one of the most controversial chapters of America's campaign against [...]

The torture itself was horrific enough. Beatings, hangings, sleep deprivation, waterboarding, mock executions -- a litany of abuse authorized by the United States government against terrorism suspects held in the [...]

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- At first, the Americans seemed confused about Suleiman Abdullah Salim. They apparently had been expecting a light-skinned Arab, and instead at a small airport outside [...]

WASHINGTON -- The United States military has sharply curtailed the use of psychologists at the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in response to strict new professional ethics rules of the [...]

WASHINGTON -- A Senate security officer stepped out of the December chill last year and delivered envelopes marked ''Top Secret'' to the Pentagon, the C.I.A., the State Department and the [...]