Specious terrorism busts in which a close reading of news accounts reveals that the supposed plot actually originated with police or FBI infiltrators continue to be alarmingly common.
The Pakistani media have quoted Taliban and al-Qaeda sources denying responsibility for the deadly market attack in Peshawar, leading to a frenzy of conspiracy theories.
A strategically timed New York Times revelation of the CIA and narco ties of the Afghan president’s brother may be a ploy by elements in the US administration who have turned against Karzai.
Negotiators for deposed Honduran president Manuel Zelaya gave up on talks to end the political crisis, saying they were “worn down” by the intransigence of the de facto government.
A poll by the DC-based Greenberg Quinlan Rosner firm found that 60% of Hondurans disapproved of the June 28 removal of President Manuel Zelaya from office, while only 38% approved.
Legal experts are challenging a Law Library of Congress report claiming that the overthrow of Honduran president Manuel Zelaya was in accordance with Honduras’ 1982 Constitution.
The neo-Nazis arrested last week on suspicion of preparing a terrorist attack in the Czech Republic were trained by a member of the Czech armed forces, authorities say.
Pakistani security forces reportedly arrested 12 personnel of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards near the border town of Mashkel in the restive Baluchistan region.
The US embassy in Pakistan rejected claims that an Islamabad warehouse in the possession of a subcontractor to Blackwater/Xe was used to store heavy arms and ammunition for the company.
Amnesty International accused Israel of denying Palestinians the right to access adequate water by maintaining total control over shared water resources and pursuing discriminatory policies.
Hamas leaders are charging an Israeli plot to divide the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the wake of the latest violence at the Temple Mount, that left several injured and 20 detained.
Six months after the end of Sri Lanka’s civil war some 245,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) remain in camps, where aid donors are increasingly concerned over harsh conditions.
