Pakistani students accused of terrorism win fight against deportation. Bangkok rocked by violence as ‘Red Shirt’ leaders surrender. Taliban launch an attack on Bagram air base. New sanctions draft announced as pressure mounts on Iran. All this and more in today’s security briefing.
We need to break old assumptions if Afghanistan and Pakistan are to be secured, argues Carlo Ungaro
Turkish-Brazilian deal on Iranian uranium draws criticism from US and Israel. Sri Lanka celebrates 'victory day' as damning report issued by International Crisis Group. All this and more in today's update.
Frustration at the failure of nuclear weapon states to honour the agreements made at previous NPT Conferences is growing. In heated exchanges in New York the 184 countries without nuclear weapons want to ensure that this time the NPT outcome has direction, accountability and muscle. Half way throu
The new pattern of United States military attacks in the AfPak borderlands is fuelling ever-greater hostility on the ground. The arrest of a presumed Taliban militant in New York is one of its symptoms. The long war is recharging itself.
The case for diplomatic engagement rather than military confrontation with Iran is well-founded in principle and achievable in reality, says Arshin Adib-Moghaddam.
A protester is shot dead as hundreds march against civilian casualties caused in a recent night raid in Afghanistan. President Obama asks Congress to fund an Israeli missile shield. At least five people have been killed in clashes in Bangkok. Russian security forces have killed three of the organi
In recognising a right of conscientious objection specifically to military service, the international community of nation states has effectively conceded the morality of such a standpoint. An eventual extension of the interpretation of this right to embrace conscientious objections to payment towa
Conscientious objection is not "opting out". It is an effort to stimulate a new social imagination and a revolutionary mentality that does not normalise violence.
A new anthology of women conscientious objectors reveals the extent to which rejection to military service is part of a greater movement for social change. Vanessa Alexander went along to the book launch
International drug policy is at a tipping point. Emerging from a forty year repressive dark age following the excesses of the 1960s, has the world learned enough to craft a saner, more compassionate approach to drug use?
Baghdad bombings in wake of inconclusive election bargaining in Iraq. Suspicions mount of North Korean involvement in Cheonan sinking. Murders taint government-opposition relations in Ethiopia. US warns Burma over purchases of North Korean weapons. All this and more in today's briefing.
