TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — The California man who became known as the "American Taliban" after his battlefield capture in Afghanistan in 2001 was freed early from his federal sentence on Thursday, ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. When John Ashcroft announced the indictment of John Walker Lindh, the attorney general said the rights of the 20-year-old ...

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. -- The Marin County, California man who became known as the "American Taliban" after his capture on an Afghanistan battlefield in late 2001 has been released from prison. John Walker ...

John Walker Lindh and other al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners told U.S. interrogators the Sept. 11 hijackings were supposed to be the first of three increasingly severe attacks against Americans. Their ...

Federal prosecutors filed a handful of briefs Monday designed to ensure that everything John Walker Lindh said to anyone after he was captured in Afghanistan can and will be used against him at his ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. His father compared him to Nelson Mandela. His lawyer said "this isn't Rambo." The government, which earlier had called ...

John Walker Lindh, the so-called American Taliban who pleaded guilty to fighting for the former militant leaders of Afghanistan after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, was released from a ...

John Walker Lindh, the Californian who took up arms for the Taliban and was captured by invading U.S. forces in Afghanistan in 2001, got out of prison Thursday after more than 17 years, released under ...

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. – John Walker Lindh, the Californian who took up arms for the Taliban and was captured by U.S. forces in Afghanistan in 2001, got out of prison Thursday after more than 17 years, ...

John Walker Lindh, the captured Islamic militant who at age 20 journeyed to Afghanistan to join the Taliban and fought alongside the terrorists in the days after 9/11, was released from a U.S. federal ...