As Wells notes, the Obama administration is contemplating air strikes in Iraq to protect threatened religious minorities there.

The New York Times reports:  WASHINGTON — President Obama is considering airstrikes or airdrops of food and medicine to address a humanitarian crisis among as many as 40,000 religious minorities in Iraq...

When the court returns from recess, the parties move into argument on AE277, the defense’s motion for a judicial order compelling an MRI of Al-Nashiri’s brain to determine if he has brain damage. The de...

Judge Spath begins today’s hearings noting that Al-Nashiri is not present. The court first hears testimony from the Guantanamo Staff Judge Advocate who had received Al-Nashiri’s waiver, Captain G, who wa...

The New York Times is reporting that, according to Kurdish officials, American forces have bombed ISIS targets in Iraq: American military forces bombed at least two targets in northern Iraq on Thursday ...

Judge Spath then moves to AE 295, a defense filing and the penultimate item on the agenda.

In the final session for the day, Judge Spath announces he has come to a ruling on AE277.  This is the defense's bid for Al-Nashiri to have an MRI examination, presumably in order to unearth the damage w...

A reminder: Lawfare has digests of yesterday's pre-trial proceedings in United States v.

When the Court reconvenes, Major Tom Hurley begins argument on AE 280. In it, the defense requests that summaries of classified discovery be marked with more granular classification information.  Specifi...

The military judge, Air Force Col. Vance Spath, begins the morning's hearing in United States v. Al-Nashiri---his second on the case---by ruling on two pending motions. First, Judge Spath grants defense...

The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has granted the government’s motion to dismiss Fawzi Khalid Abdullah Fahad Al Odah’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus and declaratory judgment in ...