Law & Society

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up an appeal filed by a Syrian former detainee at the U.S. Guantanamo Bay base in Cuba, leaving intact a lower-court ruling prohibiting him from suing the United States for damages stemming from his treatment during seven years of detention.

Republican senators warned Iran on Monday that any nuclear deal made with U.S. President Barack Obama could last only as long as he remains in office, in an unusual intervention into U.S. foreign policy-making.

A United Nations human rights investigator recommended an international strategy on Monday to press North Korea to clarify the fate of hundreds of foreign nationals allegedly abducted over decades, mainly from Japan and South Korea.