• US contractor investigated for $1 billion fees in Afghanistan

  

  Aug 14, 2010 19:02

  Associated Press Federal prosecutors are investigating whether a U.S. contractor managing more than $1 billion in reconstruction...

   

• Afghan protest on civilian deaths turns violent,1 dead

  SURKHROD, Afghanistan (Reuters) – A civilian was shot dead in eastern Afghanistan on Friday after police fired at thousands...

   

• Iran and Iraq exchange border fire

  AFP Iraqi border guards exchanged fire with Iranian troops along the two countries’ border yesterday, the first major...

   

• Al-Qaida in Iraq warns of “dark days

  

  May 14, 2010 9:36

  AP BAGHDAD – Al-Qaida in Iraq’s new leader is warning of “dark days soaked with blood” and says a new...

   

• 31 ‘insurgents’ killed in Afghanistan

  Regional police claim Nato, Afghan and allied special forces killed over three dozen insurgent fighters in separate overnight...

   

• Car bomb kills 7 in Baghdad’s Sadr City

  A car bomb kills seven people and injures 22 others outside a cafe in a Shia neighborhood of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad. The...

   

• Amnesty International condemns executions in Iran of five political activists

  Amnesty International today condemned the executions in Iran of four Kurdish political activists and another Iranian man,...

   

• NY Judge: Torture no grounds to dismiss indictment

  AP A Guantanamo Bay detainee brought to the United States for trial on charges he helped the bombing of two U.S. embassies...

   

• 119 Killed in Iraq

  Security has been boosted in Iraq after 119 people were killed and hundreds were wounded in a string of attacks across the...

   

• U.S. Extends Blackwater Task In Iraq

  The U.S. State Department says a controversial U.S. private security company claimed to have been enlisted in a CIA hunt...

   

• The Blackwater Targeted Killing Program

  A U.S. district court will decide this week whether one of the darkest chapters of the Bush era, the relationship between...

   

• Lawyers: Ban Bush from Canada for war crimes

  Canwest News Service A lawyers’ group has asked the RCMP to bar former U.S. president George W. Bush from entering Canada,...

   

• Ex-Employees Label Blackwater Chief Super-Villian

  Blackwater — I mean, “Xe” — is back in the news, more than six months after the mercenary firm was kicked out of...

   

• Blackwater accused of murder in ‘crusade to eliminate Muslims’

  A series of allegations including murder, weapons smuggling and the deliberate slaughter of civilians have been levelled...

   

• Ministers call for torture inquiry

  Parliament’s Joint Human Rights Committee has called for an independent inquiry into allegations that the British Government...

   

• Guantánamo Bay: the inside story

  Six months ago this week President Obama, on his second day in office, promised to close the Guantánamo detention camp within...

   

• China’s police-state

  John Chan | The Chinese regime’s ongoing police-military suppression of unrest in the north-western province of Xinjiang...

   

• CIA ordered to speed up release of torture report

  On Wednesday, the Federal judge overseeing the American Civil Liberty Union’s Freedom of Information Act request for CIA...

   

• Private security contractors lack accountability

  A recent shootout in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar that left 10 people dead is helping to focus attention on the issue...

   

• MoD ‘misled courts over Iraqi deaths investigation’

  A panel of three judges criticised “disturbing failures” in how the MoD handled applications to withhold evidence,...

   

• Bush admin discouraged probe into afghan killing

  Bush administration officials discouraged an investigation into a mass killing in Afghanistan, government officials and human...

   

• Met to probe torture collusion claims

  The Metropolitan Police are to investigate claims that British agents colluded in torture, Scotland Yard said. Officers are...

   

• Bombings Across Iraq as Violence Continues to Soar

  The death toll in a series of bombings today continued to rise, as Iraq faced the deadliest day since its celebration of...

   

• UN war crimes inquiry on Gaza winds up hearings

  UN war crimes investigators yesterday wound up four days of public hearings about Israel’s invasion of the Gaza Strip after...

   

• CIA torture report delayed again

  The US Justice Department is again delaying the release of an internal CIA report on the agency’s secret detention...