The US Justice Department announced that 14 individuals have been charged with providing money, personnel and services to the Somalia-based designated terrorist organization al-Shabaab.
A group of 72 Iraqis who allege they were tortured while imprisoned at detention facilities can continue with their lawsuit against military contractor L-3 Services, Inc., a judge ruled.
The ACLU and Center for Constitutional Rights are challenging the government’s Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGT) program, under which Anwar al-Awlaqi has been targeted for death.
Amnesty International condemned attacks on politicians and journalists in the run-up to the presidential election—including the murder of an opposition Green Party leader.
China has jailed three Uighur website operators as it clamps down on dissent a year after deadly ethnic riots in Xinjiang, according to the Uyghur American Association (UAA).
Riot police blocked a convoy of Kurdish lawmakers from entering Dortyol district in southern Turkey, where there has been a wave of ethnic violence following a deadly PKK ambush of an army patrol.
A deadly border skirmish between Israel and Lebanon was sparked by Israeli military tree-cutting on lands technically within Israeli territory although north of the border fence.
An illegal Israeli settlement outpost erected near the larger Kiyrat Arba settlement in Hebron was evacuated by Israeli forces, sparking violence from squatters, who torched Palestinian lands.
Dozens of Afghan refugees have been reported missing and thousands displaced by severe floods in Pakistan over the past two weeks, according to refugees, aid workers and officials.
Thousands of indigenous protesters are blocking river ports in Peru’s northern region of Loreto to press demands for the titling of native lands and payment for use of the waterways by oil companies.
Nine US human rights activists are holding a vigil at the Tolemaida military base near Bogotá with a 12-foot banner that reads “U.S. MILITARY OUT OF COLOMBIA.”
The president of the Union of Mining Industry Workers (SINTRAMINEROS) in Colombia’s Antioquia department is under death threat, while an Antioquia campesino leader was seized by the army.
