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Byline: Vivian Ho Good morning. Julian Assange has walked free from a court in the Northern Mariana Islands, a US territory in the Pacific, after a plea deal that brings [...]

Bangladesh, Dec. 23 -- In April 2017, the Canadian authorities unveiled charges against Farzam Mehdizadeh, a currency exchange operator, tying him to a transnational network implicated in laundering funds for [...]

A life sentence handed down by China to a US-based Hong Kong permanent resident over spying charges was a reminder that the city should stay vigilant to national security risks [...]

Hideji Suzuki says Japan failed him during his six years in a Chinese prison. China's recent arrest of a Japanese citizen is again testing Tokyo's resolve. Hideji Suzuki served six [...]

Byline: Amy B Wang In a rare joint statement, Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Friday demanded the immediate release of [...]

Byline: Andrew Jeong Some 200 Russian journalists and activists have signed an open letter demanding the immediate release of Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter detained by Moscow last [...]

ALBAWABA - Chinese court sentenced an American citizen to life on Monday on spying charges. The 78-year-old U.S. citizen was given a life-term sentence by the Intermediate People's Court in [...]

Byline: DNA Web Desk Kulbhushan Jadhav is accused of carrying out espionage and sabotage activities against Pakistan at the behest of India's intelligence agency. In the Kulbhushan Jadhav case, India [...]

Espionage prosecutions in the United States have punished ­Chinese and Asian defendants more severely, and may have falsely accused them more often than Western defendants, ­according to a new report. [...]

Byline: William Booth and Rachel Weiner LONDON - A British judge ruled Monday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should not be extradited to the United States to face charges of [...]

Byline: Erin Cunningham ISTANBUL - An Iranian court has sentenced a man to death for allegedly spying for U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies on a top military commander who was [...]

Byline: Isabelle Khurshudyan MOSCOW - The letters from detained American Paul Whelan cannot convey anything about his case or the espionage charges he faces in Russia, so they tend to [...]

Byline: Gerry Shih Chinese prosecutors said Friday they would formally bring espionage charges against two Canadians, Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, in cases widely seen as retribution for Canada's role [...]

The following editorial appears in The Washington Post: For once, the Trump administration seemed to be taking the smart, careful route. Instead of indicting WikiLeaks provocateur Julian Assange for journalistic [...]

Byline: Devlin Barrett, Rachel Weiner and Matt Zapotosky WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was charged Thursday with violating the Espionage Act by seeking out classified information, an escalation of the Trump [...]

Byline: Devlin Barrett;Matt Zapotosky;Rachel Weiner Two prosecutors involved in the case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange argued against the Justice Department's decision to accuse him of violating the Espionage Act [...]

EUROPEAN UNION Britain and bloc agree to draft text of pact Britain and the European Union have agreed to a draft text setting out a close post-Brexit relationship, although wrangling [...]

A federal judge in Washington State has dismissed a lawsuit that accused a civilian intelligence analyst working for the military of breaking the law by using a fake name to [...]

On the same day Russian President Vladimir Putin met with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to discuss the ongoing wars in Syria and Ukraine, Putin signed a decree allowing [...]

Seven months ago, the world began to learn the vast scope of the National Security Agency's reach into the lives of hundreds of millions of people in the United States […]

WASHINGTON -- The federal government is prosecuting leakers at a brisk clip and on novel theories. It is collecting information from and about journalists, calling one a criminal and threatening [...]

A scientist who worked for the Defense Department, a White House space council and other agencies was arrested on espionage charges. The Justice Department said the scientist, Stewart D. Nozette, […]

Byline: AFP IN BRIEF Couple accused of spying for Cuba denied bail Washington -- A U.S. federal judge yesterday denied bail to a former State Department employee arrested with his [...]

North Korea's bankrupt justice system has delivered a cruel verdict -- 12 years of hard labor -- to the American journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling. After a detention of […]

Two Lebanese men suspected of spying for Israel fled across the heavily fortified border to Israel on Monday, the second such escape since Lebanon stepped up a campaign of arrests […]

The case against Roxana Saberi, the Iranian-American journalist who was convicted here on charges of spying and then released this week on appeal, was based on her possession of a […]

The chief of Iran's judiciary said Monday that he had ordered a 'careful, quick and fair' consideration of an appeal of the conviction of and eight-year prison sentence imposed on […]

Byline: NASSER KARIMI; Associated Press JUSTICE: IRAN Ahmadinejad urges full defence in spy case TEHRAN -- Iran's President said yesterday that an American journalist convicted of spying for the U.S. [...]

Despite pleas for clemency from the Bush administration and European officials, a biomedical researcher convicted of espionage by a Chinese court was executed Friday, according to family members and American […]

Chen Ran arrived here on Monday from California, her bags packed with a set of white clothing appropriate for a traditional Chinese funeral. Ms. Chen, a graduate student in Berkeley, […]

Iran has executed a man convicted of spying for Israel, the semiofficial Fars news agency reported Saturday. The agency reported that Ali Ashtari was executed by hanging on Monday. It […]

A woman who helped a spy transmit military secrets to the Chinese government was sentenced to 18 months in prison, a reduced term that the judge said was warranted because […]

A federal judge in Manhattan, weighing the secrecy of the grand jury process against the interests of public accountability, refused on Tuesday to unseal the grand jury testimony of a […]

A federal judge on Friday sentenced a former Pentagon analyst to 57 months in prison for his role in providing China with classified defense information. The judge, Leonie M. Brinkema, […]

The trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, that touchstone of atomic espionage, is a case that launched a thousand doctorates and enough historical texts to make a library groan. Now, […]

She rolled her eyes. She stuck her tongue out at the prosecutor. It was decidedly not the usual courtroom demeanor. Then again, it was not the usual federal case. Nor […]

Byline: MICHAEL VALPY The case of the left-behind documents in the minister's love nest is a political disaster of seismic dimensions, but as a sex-and-security breach, it falls well behind [...]

ALMOST a half-century ago, two teams were getting ready to play at Yankee Stadium for the championship of the National Football League. The game was not yet the big deal […]