A Palestinian businessman has been found guilty of conspiring with a Syrian arms trafficker to export millions of dollars worth of weapons to leftist rebels in Colombia, authorities said Wednesday. Acting US Attorney Lev Dassin said in a statement that the guilty verdict against Tareq al-Ghazi, 62, was handed down on Tuesday at the end of a two week trial ...

President Barack Obama's administration lifted the veil further Monday on past "war on terror" tactics, releasing Bush-era legal memos and revealing the CIA destroyed 92 controversial interrogation videos. Hours after Attorney General Eric Holder ruled out the use of waterboarding as an interrogation technique -- because it amounted to torture -- his Justice Department released nine internal documents from the previous ...