Both Russia and Georgia share blame for an “indiscriminate and disproportionate” use of force that violated humanitarian law during their August 2008 war, Human Rights Watch announced.
Village elders in Afghanistan’s Mehtar Lam district say 22 noncombatants were killed in a US air-raid—the fist controversy over civilian casualties since Barack Obama took office.
Reports from Pakistan indicate that pro-government tribal elder Malik Deen Faraz, his three sons and a grandson were killed in Friday’s US drone strikes in the South Waziristan border region.
In one of its first statements since Barack Obama took office, the US State Department called for “the immediate return to constitutional order” in Mauritania, where a military coup cut short a democratic opening.
Fox News is having a field day with reports that a Saudi man who was released from Guantánamo Bay after a six-year stint is now the number-two man in al-Qaeda’s branch in Yemen.
Congolese rebel leader Laurent Nkunda was arrested by Rwandan forces in an apparent deal for a joint Congo-Rwanda crackdown on Hutu militias said to have been involved in the 1994 genocide.
Israel’s Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has assembled a team to defend his government against charges of war crimes in its recent Gaza Strip offensive.
Two missile attacks launched from a US drone killed at least 15 in Pakistan, indicating that the strategy of using remote air-strikes to target militants within Pakistan’s borders will continue under President Obama.
The worst street disturbances for 50 years struck Reykjavik, as police used tear gas against hundreds protesters demanding the government resign.
Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights warns that President Obama's executive order officially ending "coercive interrogation methods" actually leaves some "wiggle room" for torture.
Elvira Arellano, a deported Mexican woman who took sanctuary in a Chicago church to highlight immigrants’ rights, is asking President Barack Obama to call a halt to immigration raids.
Some 7,000, including hundreds of Dongria Kondh tribespeople, marched in India’s Orissa state against British mining firm Vedanta, which plans an open-pit mine on the top of the hill tribe’s sacred mountain.
