The senior military judge overseeing terror trials at Guantanamo Bay dropped charges against a suspect in the 2000 USS Cole bombing, marking the last active war crimes case there, the Pentagon said today.

The US Department of Defence said today it would seek a 120-day halt to the war crimes trials at Guantanamo Bay, pending a review by President Barack Obama.

MILITARY judges in a Guantanamo war crimes court were pressing forward yesterday with hearings for five men accused of orchestrating the September 11 attacks and a Canadian accused of killing a US soldier.

Osama bin Laden’s former driver was jailed today after being convicted of supporting terrorism in the first US war crimes trial since the Second World War.

A Pentagon jury will consider its a verdict on a former driver and alleged bodyguard for Osama bin Laden today as the US nears completion of its first war crimes trial since the Second World War.

THE first Guantanamo war crimes trial began yesterday with a not guilty plea from a former driver and alleged bodyguard for Osama bin Laden.

The first Guantanamo war crimes trial began today with a not guilty plea from a former driver and alleged bodyguard for Osama bin Laden.

A military judge has disqualified a Pentagon legal official from participating in the Guantanamo war crimes trial against a former driver for Osama bin Laden, saying he lacks independence.

The US military said today that it will allow detainees to make regular phone calls to their families from Guantanamo Bay prison, where many have been confined in extreme isolation for as long as six years.

The US began a series of secret hearings to determine whether 14 alleged terrorist leaders at its prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, should be declared “enemy combatants” who can be held indefinitely and prosecuted by military tribunals.

The US began a series of secret hearings today to determine whether 14 alleged terrorist leaders at its prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, should be declared “enemy combatants” who can be held indefinitely and prosecuted by military tribunals.

Four suspected al-Qaida fighters will be formally charged with war crimes this week as the US military opens the first legal hearings for foreign prisoners held at the US Navy base Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

Interrogators at Baghdad’s Abu Ghraib prison viewed sleep deprivation, stripping inmates naked and threatening them with dogs as normal ways of dealing with ”the enemy”, a soldier attached to military intelligence there said.

British actor Corin Redgrave called on the US to follow its release of five Britons detained in Guantanamo Bay with the return of all the estimated 660 people held at the US Navy base in Cuba.

A top official with the International Committee of the Red Cross said today it was “unacceptable” for the United States to hold terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay without charges or trial.

MILITARY officials have charged a US Air Force translator at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp with espionage and aiding the enemy for allegedly trying to send information about detainees to Syria.

A new audiotape purportedly from Osama bin Laden’s top deputy warns the US that it will pay dearly if it harms detainees at Guantanamo Bay, and urges Muslims everywhere to avenge the prisoners from their ”infidel” captors.

The Pentagon is preparing to release a dozen or more prisoners from the high-security compound for terrorist suspects in Cuba, possibly including some teenagers.

THE International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said yesterday it had begun visiting Iraqi prisoners of war held by US-led forces near the southern town of Umm Qasr.

SOME of Osama bin Laden's bodyguards have been captured and are among prisoners at the US military base in Cuba, according to American officials.

Some of Osama bin Laden’s bodyguards have been captured and are among the prisoners at the US military base in Cuba, American officials say.

A Cuban spy who dug ditches and fixed vents for six years while counting planes at a US Navy base in the Florida Keys has received a life prison sentence.