A huge database of troop names and email addresses a US army private allegedly downloaded to a personal computer could be used by foreign adversaries to launch cyber attacks on service members, a government witness said as the trial of Bradley Manning entered its third week.

The defence says US military prosecutors are drawing comparisons between an Army private's alleged leak of classified documents to US Civil War-era cases involving coded messages in newspapers

An Army private accused of sending reams of classified US documents to the WikiLeaks website was kept in tight pre-trial confinement partly because another prisoner had recently committed suicide, the former security chief at the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia, told a court today.

A military judge has refused to dismiss the most serious charge against a US Army private accused over the biggest leak of government secrets in American history.

A military judge has refused to dismiss the most serious charge against an Army private accused over the biggest leak of government secrets in US history.

Close-up photographs of a bloody leg are part of the US government’s arsenal as it tries to convict an Army dog handler of abusing detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

The former US military intelligence chief at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison says he regrets not setting “appropriate controls” there, where detainees were bitten by dogs and assaulted and sexually humiliated by guards.

Computer users were today urged to encrypt their e-mails in a bid to protect themselves against a worldwide electronic spy network which does not officially exist.