As Russia marks the 20th anniversary of its withdrawal from Afghanistan, the BBC spoke with veterans of the Soviet military campaign, who have grim words of warning for Washington.
Two missiles fired from a US drone killed more than 30, reportedly including al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters, in three compounds in near the Afghan border in Pakistan’s Tribal Areas.
Colombian labor leaders testified before the US House Education and Labor Committee that killings of union members jumped by 25% in the Andean nation last year, and few of the cases have been investigated.
FARC guerillas are accused in a massacre of 17 members of the Awá indigenous people in a jungle region in Colombia’s south. Ten more Awá were killed days later as they fled the scene of the first attack.
Twenty-one were killed in a clash between the Mexican army and a kidnapping gang in northern Chihuahua state on Monday—and three more in a mopping-up operation on the gang’s ranch headquarters Friday.
Ex-solider Octavio Almanza Moreles AKA “El Gori 4” and six presumed members of the Zetas narco-paramilitary were arrested in the killing an army general who was aiding the Cancún police force.
Brazilian police arrested 51 members of two supposed narcotics gangs in simultaneous raids in eight states—days after a raid in Rio’s favelas left 10 dead.
Four Russian police agents and three suspected rebels were killed in a clash in Nazran, capital of Ingushetia in Russia’s troubled North Caucasus.
Seven members of the Baha’i faith will stand trial in Iran on charges of “spying for Israel” and “desecrating Islam and campaigning against the Islamic Republic,” the official ISNA agency reports.
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A trial started in federal court in Tucson against vigilante rancher Roger Barnett and Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever for conspiracy to violate the rights of undocumented immigrants.
The government of New Zealand agreed to pay $140 million in compensation to eight Maori tribes for illegal land seizures and breaches of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi.
