• CIA Secrecy on Drone Attacks Data Hides Abuses

  The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency’s refusal to share with other agencies even the most basic data on the bombing attacks...

   

• Gitmo suicide had been prisoners’ representative

  Almost five months before he was found dead at Guantanamo Bay, a detainee volunteered to represent prisoners in talks with...

   

• Afghan Violence Hit ‘All Time High’ Last Week

  By Jason Ditz | General David Petraeus today announced that violence in Afghanistan had hit its highest level since the 2001...

   

• New US commander in Afghanistan assembles team of assassins

  By Bill Van Auken  | Confirmed Wednesday as President Barack Obama’s new commander for the widening war in Afghanistan...

   

• CIA Director’s claims reinforce torture reality

  It’s no secret that during the Bush administration, the Central Intelligence Agency “rendered” suspected...

   

• KBR, Halliburton Accused in Investor Suit of ‘Reign of Terror’

  By Cary O’Reilly | KBR Inc. and Halliburton Co., two of the largest contractors to the U.S. military, were accused by...

   

• Human Rights Watch accuses DRC troops of war crimes

  By Frank Nyakairu | NAIROBI (Reuters) – Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused Democratic Republic of Congo’s army...

   

• Soldiers protected by human rights laws

  British troops are protected by human rights laws even while fighting overseas, according to a landmark judgment Monday centred...

   

• CIA Refuses to Turn Over Torture Tape Documents

  The CIA claims the integrity of a special prosecutor’s criminal investigation into the destruction of 92 interrogation...

   

• Suspected war criminal to lead U.S. forces in Afghanistan

  On July 22 2006, Human Rights Watch issued a report titled “No blood, no foul” about American torture practices at three...

   

• Congress Resists Guantánamo Releases

  As lawmakers amped up the outcry against releasing Guantánamo “terrorists in our neighborhoods,” France agreed...

   

• Memos shed light on CIA use of sleep deprivation torture

  By Greg Miller | Reporting from Washington — As President Obama prepared last month to release secret memos on the...

   

• War crime in Sri Lanka: Civilians slaughtered by army shelling

  By Bill Van Auken | In what constitutes a blatant war crime by the Sri Lankan government, the army’s merciless bombardment...

   

• Psychologists’ E-Mails Stir Interrogation Issue

  By Farah Stockman | WASHINGTON – Newly public e-mails between psychologists involved in the Bush administration’s...

   

• Pentagon’s Black Budget Grows to More Than $50 Billion

  By Noah Shachtman | The Pentagon wants to spend just over $50 billion on classified programs next year, newly-released Defense...

   

• Pentagon eyes new anti-missile technology

  WASHINGTON: The Pentagon is redirecting its missile defence efforts by winding down multibillion-dollar programmes aimed...

   

• Pelosi caught in lie over CIA torture report

  By Bob Turner | Washington – A report by the Central Intelligence Agency revealed that now Speaker of the House, Rep....

   

• Government Could Destroy Records in Hundreds of Guantanamo Cases

  A stockpile of documents about hundreds of Guantanamo Bay detainees, some authored by the prisoners themselves, could be...

   

• Informants Say Blackwater Guards Tried to Unload Arms

  By Bill Sizemore | Shortly after a 2007 shooting incident in a Baghdad traffic square that left 17 Iraqi civilians dead,...

   

• US airstrikes kill scores of civilians in Afghanistan

  By Bill Van Auken | On the eve of a tripartite summit in Washington which the Obama administration has organized with the...

   

• Officials: Gitmo court system likely to stay open

  By LARA JAKES | The Obama administration may revamp and restart the Bush-era military trial system for suspected terrorists...

   

• US accused of violating its amnesty in Iraq

  US-allied anti-Qaeda militia leader says his arrest violates amnesty deal with Americans. BALAD, Iraq – A senior anti-Qaeda...

   

• Torture Was Used to Try to Link Saddam with 9/11

  By Marjorie Cohn | When I testified last year before the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution,...

   

• Jordan’s human-rights watchdog reports torture

  Amman- The 2008 report released Saturday by Jordan’s state- funded National Centre for Human Rights (NCHR) found continued...

   

• The CIA’s $1,000 a Day Specialists on Waterboarding, Interrogations

  As the secrets about the CIA’s interrogation techniques continue to come out, there’s new information about the...