• MoD faces Afghan civilian death pay-outs

  The Ministry of Defence has paid out, or is considering, compensation in relation to at least 104 civilian deaths allegedly...

   

• Israel’s war crimes not “collateral damage”

  Israel sought to defend itself Thursday against the latest accusations by a major international organization that it committed...

   

• Former CIA officer charged in Algiers rape

  A former CIA station chief charged with raping an unconscious Algerian woman last year surrendered to federal agents outside...

   

• Bagram Detainees Treated “Worse Than Animals”

  An investigation by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has revealed that former detainees at the U.S. Bagram airbase...

   

• Elite Iraqi troops in forefront after US pullback

  As Iraqi security services prepare to take back their towns from the Americans on Tuesday, the sharpest arrow in their quiver...

   

• The kinder, gentler occupation?

  Phil Aliff, a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War, analyzes new U.S. rules of engagement governing air power in Afghanistan. DESPITE...

   

• Dozens of Civilians Killed as US Attacks Funeral

  Sources involved in the rescue operation following yesterday’s US attack on a South Waziristan funeral procession reported...

   

• US spy aircraft patrolling northern border

  U.S. border officials are testing an unmanned surveillance aircraft to judge whether the drones can be used more widely along...

   

• All in a day’s work for the Israeli army: beating and torturing children

  Jonathan Cook reports on how Israeli soldiers routinely, and as a matter of policy, practise torture against Palestinian...

   

• The True Story Behind Pyschology’s Role in Torture?

  A seventeen-year-old boy is locked in an interrogation cell in Guantanamo.  He breaks down crying and says he wants his...

   

• EU needs to tell the truth about renditions

  It is welcome that EU governments have at last agreed to heed the call issued by the European parliament five months ago...

   

• Empty Evidence: The Stories Of The Saudis Released From Guantanamo

  At the end of a hectic week at Guantánamo, which saw the Obama administration overcome its previous inability to release...

   

• Sri Lankan government threatens Tamil parliamentarians

  The Sri Lankan government last week threatened to strip four Tamil parliamentarians of their seats by turning down their...

   

• New Evidence Of CIA Torture Program

  NEW YORK – The CIA today released still-highly redacted documents in which Guantánamo Bay prisoners describe abuse and...

   

• Pentagon May Keep Afghan Death Probe Secret

  In early May, a series of US air strikes in multiple villages in the Farah Province of Afghanistan killed 140 civilians,...

   

• Guantánamo’s Uighurs In Bermuda: Interviews And New Photos

  

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  As representatives of the world’s media descended on Bermuda to meet the four Uighurs (Muslims from China’s oppressed...

   

• The truth behind Depleted Uranium (DU) Contamination and its usage

  There has been significant publicity about the use of Depleted Uranium (DU) munitions, its ability to travel very long distances...

   

• Obama smoothes passage of war spending bill by pledging to suppress torture photos

  Negotiators in the US House and Senate on Friday reached a tentative agreement on a $105.9 billion “emergency” war-funding...

   

• Soldier Refuses Deployment to Afghanistan

  Agosto, a soldier based at Fort Hood in Texas, is publicly refusing orders to deploy to Afghanistan. He recently wrote on...

   

• US military spending hit $607 billion in 2008

  The global arms madness continues. A new report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (one of my favorite...

   

• The Rise of Private Armies

  Journalist Jeremy Scahill warns against the growing power of corporate private armies and the “disintegration of the...

   

• The Long Ordeal of Guantánamo’s Youngest Prisoner

  The long ordeal of Mohammed El-Gharani, Guantánamo’s youngest prisoner, has finally come to an end. Reprieve, the legal...

   

• Israeli War Crimes Against Children

  Following Israel’s Operation Cast Lead, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) documented the toll on Gaza’s...

   

• Sri Lankan government interrogate doctors who witnessed war crimes

  The Sri Lankan government is continuing to detain and interrogate three doctors—Dr Thurairajah Varatharajah, Dr Thangamuttu...

   

• Feds ask court to reconsider CIA renditions suit

  The U.S. Department of Justice is asking a federal appeals court to reconsider its decision to allow a Boeing Co. subsidiary...