UK Attorney General Baroness Scotland said police will conduct an investigation into claims that MI5 agents took part in the abusive interrogation of ex-Gitmo detainee Binyam Mohamed.
At least 11 people were killed in a suicide bomb attack at a restaurant in northwest Pakistan ‘s South Waziristan—the same day a US drone attack killed four in North Waziristan.
Afghans are again protesting a reckless US raid that left five dead this week in Kunduz province—days after a suicide blast killed another five in Nangarhar province.
Kuwait’s Arab Times speculates that with the deadly suicide blast in the contested city of Jalawla, al-Qaeda in Iraq is trying to spark an Arab-Kurdish war.
Yemen’s defense ministry denied claims that al-Qaeda has infiltrated the country’s security forces following a deadly suicide attack on South Korean tourists.
The Obama administration has formally abandoned the phrase “Global War on Terrorism” for the more clinical and antiseptic “Overseas Contingency Operation.”
Israel unlawfully and extensively used white phosphorous munitions in the Gaza offensive, according to a report released by Human Rights Watch, calling it “neither incidental nor accidental.”
The Israel Defense Forces announced it will conduct an internal investigation into mounting reports that Israeli soldiers committed war crimes in the Gaza Strip operation.
The White House announced that the US will consider imposing sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICC) judges and prosecutors if the ICC opens an investigation into the actions of United States service members and intelligence personnel in Afghanistan. The Chief Prosecutor of the ICC requested an investigation in November 2017 into alleged war crimes committed by the US in Afghanistan since May 2003, in addition to actions taken by the Afghan National Security Forces, the Taliban and the Haqqani network. In addition to sanctions, the US will also consider seeking to have the ICC's powers restricted by the UN Security Council. The US will also seek to strengthen agreements that would prevent other nations from surrendering US nationals to the ICC. (Photo: AiirSource Military)
As the Assad regime and its Russian backers prepare an offensive to take Idlib, the last area of opposition control in Syria, the people of the northern province have been holding demonstrations, organized by the civil resistance, waving the Free Syria flag and calling on the world to act to prevent the impending massacre there. But dozens of Kurdish fighters who had fought in the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), in the US-backed campaign against ISIS, are now reported to have joined the regime offensive on Idlib. The SDF's civilian wing, the Syrian Democratic Council, has sent a delegation to Damascus to open talks on coming to accommodations with the Assad regime. Despite these overtures, the regime continues to reject any recognition of the Kurdish autonomous zone of Rojava. The Rojava Kurds have had to make very hard decisions. Despite their leftist politics, they allied with US imperialism against ISIS. They now appear to be closing ranks with the Assad regime—because Turkey, which wants to crush them, is backing the Free Syrian Army. Kurds and Arabs have been pitted against each other by the Great Powers. But just as the Kurds are likely to be betrayed by the US in a carve-up deal with Turkey now that ISIS is effectively defeated, they may similarly be betrayed by Assad once the FSA is defeated. (Photo: EA Worldview)
The US Border Patrol intends to employ a chemical herbicide to eradicate Carrizo cane, an invasive plant that provides convenient cover for undocumented border crossers and smugglers.
About 25,000 members of the indigenous Movement of Triqui Unification and Struggle (MULT) marched in Oaxaca City to demand that the government open talks on rights violations in the state.
