Iraqi officials charge that twice in the last two weeks the US military violated the security agreement signed in November by attacking criminal suspects without coordinating with Iraqi forces.
US forces shot two Shi’ite pilgrims Saturday night as they walked to Karbala for the Arbaeen holy day, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said.
The UN Special Rapporteur on protection of human rights finds that Spain’s Law of Political Parties criminalizes as “support of terrorism” conduct that does not relate to any kind of violent activity.
In a bid to soften the impacts of the auto industry crisis, Mexican officials are offering financial assistance to foreign-owned companies with maquiladora plants in the northern border states.
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) charges that Mexico’s investigation into the shooting death of US journalist Brad Will presents a scientifically flawed theory that ignores PHR’s conclusive findings.
Retired army Gen. Mauro Enrique Tello Quiñones, a civilian and another soldier, found dead near the Caribbean resort of Cancún, were tortured before being shot, Mexican authorities report.
Hundreds of Burmese Muslim refugees put to sea by Thai authorities remain missing. Burma’s junta denies the Rohingya exist as an indigenous ethnicity, calling them Bangladeshi settlers.
Australia claimed a blow against a home-grown terrorist cell, with the sentencing of six Muslim men who reportedly were planning attacks in response to Australia’s military involvement in Iraq.
As fighting continues in Sri Lanka, Amnesty International has called upon the government and the Tamil Tigers to declare a truce and allow more than a quarter million trapped civilians to escape.
Islamist rebel factions in Somalia have formed a united front to fight the transition government, while Turkey announced it is sending a warship to help police the Somali coast against pirates.
The US Treasury Department branded the PJAK guerillas of Iranian Kurdistan as a terrorist organization and front for the PKK. Simultaneously, Turkish warplanes again bombed PKK targets in Iraq.
A Turkish prosecutor launched an investigation into claims that Israel’s offensive in Gaza amounted to genocide and crimes against humanity, based on a complaint filed by the rights group Mazlum-Der.
