A suicide attack targeting a Shi’ite funeral procession in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province as the Ashura holy period draws to a close sparked hours of riots and army intervention.
Gen. David D. McKiernan, top US commander in Afghanistan, said that the heightened troop levels that President Obama ordered for the country could remain in place for up to five years.
Four prisoners who were released from Guantánamo Bay and sent back to their home country of Iraq last month have been detained by authorities there and are being interrogated, Iraqi officials confirmed.
Egyptian authorities freed dissident Ayman Nour, whose three years of imprisonment were a source of tension with Washington. But blogger and Gaza solidarity activist Diaa Eddin Gad remains incommunicado.
Protesters blocked the international bridges in Juárez, Reynosa and Nuevo Laredo to demand the Mexican army pull out of the violence-torn cities. But politicians said the protesters were paid by the cartels.
A panel of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit reversed an October district court order that called for the release of 17 Uighur detainees from Guantánamo Bay into the US.
Documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act confirm Defense Department involvement in the CIA’s “ghost detention” program, human rights groups including Amnesty International revealed.
Human rights activists in Iran say the US “regime change” campaign has prompted Tehran to turn up the heat on internal dissent—and makes it easier to tar activists as American agents.
President Obama announced the mobilization of 17,000 new troops to Afghanistan, bringing total US troop levels there to 55,000—as a UN report finds that Afghan civilian casualties rose by 40% last year.
China is widening its crackdown on Tibetan activists, carrying out sweeps across the ethnic Tibetan western regions, as a campaign mounts to boycott Tibetan New Year Feb. 25 in protest of the repression.
From the New York state chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW), Feb. 16: ALBANY, NY — On February 12, 2009, in Orchard Park, Buffalo, NY, forty-four year-old Muzzamil Hassan, a prominent Muslim businessman, was arrested for having allegedly… Read moreWoman beheaded in New York state honor killing?
A US drone again struck Pakistan’s Tribal Areas, killing some 30—as Pakistan’s government accepted an offer from tribal leaders to instate sharia law in the borderlands in exchange for a pledge to lay down arms.
