Prisoners in Afghan-run detention facilities are still being beaten and tortured, according to an annual report by the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA).
The International Maritime Bureau hailed progress against Somali pirates, but urged the world’s navies to keep up the pressure—and warned of growing piracy off West Africa.
World War 4 Report editor Bill Weinberg will be leading a weekly walking tour highlighting struggles over urban space on New York's Lower East side over the past generation.
Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar condemned US drone attacks as a violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty and international law, “counter-productive” to fighting terrorism.
Former Liberian president Charles Taylor began his appeal in The Hague of his conviction and 50-year sentence for war crimes committed during the civil war in Sierra Leone.
Some 200 disaffected soldiers with two tanks surrounded Eritrea’s Ministry of Information, forcing the broadcast of a statement calling for the release of political prisoners.
54,558 people have signed a letter calling on US President Obama and other officials to stop the flow of smuggled firearms from the US to Mexican drug gangs.
A US Special Operations group is set to train Mexican commandos to fight drug traffickers with the techniques the US military has used to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan.
National Congress president Juan Orlando Hernández has introduced a bill to create semi-autonomous zones that look a lot like the “model cities” ruled unconstitutional.
The US has “between five to seven different transition plans” for achieving a “democratic, market-oriented society” in Cuba, according to documents filed in federal court.
Islamist mujahedeen fighters in northern Mali. Even as jihadist militias surge south from their territory in Mali’s desert north towards the capital Bamako, the movement is splintering—and French military intervention raises the stakes. Writer Andy Morgan, famous as co-manager of… Read moreIslamist mujahedeen in northern Mali
