The court found that Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III had the authority to invalidate a contract reached between the ...

The decision undoes an attempt to wrap up more than two decades of military prosecution beset by legal and logistical ...

Federal judges ruled 2-1 that Defense Secretary Austin had legal authority to cancel the Guantánamo Bay plea deal for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in the 9/11 case.

Friday's decision undoes an attempt to wrap up more than two decades of military prosecution beset by legal and logistical ...

A U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit panel upheld then-defense secretary Lloyd Austin’s withdrawal ...

In a significant turn, a US federal appeals court has rejected the plea deal for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged 9/11 ...

Washington, DC – An appeals court in the United States has validated the decision of former Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin to ...

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed sought to avoid the death penalty under the plea deal which a court threw out on Friday ...

A federal appeals court determined that former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin “indisputably” had the authority to cancel plea ...

The deal would have allowed Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to avoid the death penalty in exchange for life without parole.

A divided federal appeals court has scrapped an agreement that would have allowed the alleged September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to plead guilty in a deal sparing him the risk of execution ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals rejected plea deals for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and co-defendants, thwarting their bid to avoid the ...