As the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks approaches, the alleged masterminds are still in limbo as they await trial. A military judge has tentatively scheduled the trial for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and three co-defendants for June 2028. This unprecedented delay arises from numerous legal complexities and lengthy pretrial proceedings, compounded by issues stemming from secret CIA detention and coercive interrogation methods that cast a shadow over the case.

A quarter-century after the attacks on the World Trade Center, alleged mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed remains untried, with 2,977 murder charges against him stalled by…

Two decades after U.S. authorities locked Khalid Sheikh Mohammed away at a military detention center in Cuba, the purported mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks sometimes seems…