Civil society rap Somali knuckles
Civil society groups in Somalia have criticised the Somali government after security forces raided the compound of a NGO. Somali officials claim to have found
Taliban alter strategy with ground offensives
Taliban fighters have occupied Miya Nishin district in Kandahar province, while on Saturday hundreds of militants launched raids on police posts in the vicinity
Western Sahara negotiations begin in earnest
Representatives of the Moroccan government and the Western Saharan nationalist movement Polisario met near New York in UN-sponsored negotiations over the fate of the
State of emergency in Palestine
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya has criticised the decision taken by President Mahmoud Abbas, the leading Fatah politician, to dismiss Haniya and declare a state
Lebanon buries Eido
A day after a bomb killed Walid Eido, a member of parliament with the Future Movement, hundreds joined the slain MP's funeral chanting against Syria
Kurdish separatists issue ceasefire
The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) announced on Tuesday that it will "not carry out attacks other than for self-defence". In its bid to stem
Hamas storm Fatah security HQ
Hamas gunmen stormed the Gaza City headquarters of Fatah-dominated national security forces on Tuesday, after issuing a deadline for their rivals to quit key strongholds.
Guantánamo Uighurs now in Albanian limbo
A number of Uighurs released after four years in the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay have now spent a year in a squalid refugee
Jihadi palingenesis in Iraq
The Islamic Army in Iraq is intent on re-stabilising its ties with al-Qaida, as during "the first days of jihad", a spokesperson for the
Turkey refutes incursion claims
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyib Erdogan has reiterated that parliamentary approval would be sought prior to any military incursion into northern Iraq, while Turkey's foreign
Female journalists assassinated in Afghanistan
Two female journalists, Zakia Zaki and Sanga Amach, have been killed by gunmen in Afghanistan in the past week. Zaki ran a private radio station
ETA end 15-month ceasefire
Basque armed separatist group, ETA, is to end its 15-month ceasefire on 6 June, claiming that the "minimum conditions for continuing a process of negotiations
