After months of dialogue, the Turkish government announced a plan to help end the 25-year conflict with a Kurdish separatist movement that has cost more than 40,000 lives.
The Iraqi parliament has failed to resolve an impasse threatening to delay the country’s election—which could affect the US military’s plans for a partial pullout next year.
Plaintiffs in the civil suit against Blackwater over the 2007 Nisur Square massacre are divided on whether to accept a settlement. The case now heads for an evidentiary hearing.
Federal prosecutors indicated they will drop manslaughter charges against a Blackwater security guard involved in the September 2007 shooting incident in Baghdad that killed 17 Iraqis.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Court sentenced former vice president Mohammad Ali Abtahi to six years in prison for his role in the unrest that followed the disputed presidential elections.
Iraq and Afghanistan combat veterans are advising police in Salinas on “counterinsurgency strategy” in the wake of deadly gang violence in the California city.
Richard Colvin, a former diplomat with Canada’s mission in Afghanistan, testified that all detainees transferred to Afghan prisons were likely tortured—and many of them were innocent.
Britain’s Ministry of Defense says it is launching an independent inquiry into allegations that soldiers tortured and killed Iraqi prisoners at Camp Abu Naji in 2004.
The Argentine Senate approved a law that would authorize the government to obtain DNA samples from individuals suspected to have been born to forced disappearance victims
The Pishtaco, a bogeyman from Peruvian folklore, stepped into the light of day with arrest of a gang in Huánuco that reportedly kills victims to sell their fat on an international black market.
The governments of Colombia and Venezuela traded angry words again following the bombing of two footbridges connecting the two countries by Venezuelan guardsmen.
The CIA ran a secret prison inside an exclusive riding academy outside Vilnius, Lithuania, official sources told ABC News. Lithuania’s parliament has opened an investigation.
