Of the 580 checkpoint and roadblocks that dot the West Bank and Gaza, Israel has agreed to remove fifty. Thirty roadblocks have appeared since last year's Annapolis peace
Quantifying terror
On October 16, 2003, former US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld posed a revealing question in one of his infamous memos, how does one "take stock " of
The past week's protest against Chinese rule turned violent again Saturday when thousands of people, some carrying the banned Tibetan flag, attacked a police station in Xiahe, China.
The top US counterinsurgency advisor in Iraq, Lt. Col. David Kilcullen, advocated a plan based on the secretive "global Phoenix program" used in Vietnam. The CIA-operated "global
A torture technique once used in the Spanish Inquisition has been condoned by the US president. George Bush vetoed a Congressional bill outlawing water boarding and other forms of torture.
Last week's Sudanese aerial bombardment in and around the Jebel Moun area in western Darfur has displaced an estimated eight thousand people into neighboring Chad. Huddling in bleak
Shia pilgrims killed
A refreshment tent for Iraqi Shia taking part in the Arbain procession to Kerbala became the scene of one of the deadliest suicide bomb attacks this year.
Turkish ground troops invade northern Iraq
Turkey launched a massive cross-border ground offensive against Kurdistan's Worker's Party (PKK) guerillas yesterday at 7pm local time (17:00
