Granting amnesty to Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who perpetrated human rights abuses and possible war crimes, would be against international law, the UN human rights chief has said. "I have been closely following the events in Yemen, particularly the very...
Members of the Syrian opposition have suggested that the recent "suicide bombing" in Damascus was orchestrated by the Syrian government. They have pointed to a series of news clips that Syrian state TV aired "unedited" footage by "mistake". One video shows what...
Turkish airstrikes that killed 35 Kurdish civilians last week may have been an intentional massacre, according to some supporters and opponents of the Turkish government. The Kurds were attacked while smuggling cigarettes and petrol from over the Iraqi border,...
In yet another show of military provocation from the West, Britain's Royal Navy has sent its most formidable warship to patrol the Persian Gulf mere miles off the Iranian coast. The warship, called the HMS Daring, is a Type 45 destroyer and has the technological...
An Afghan investigative commission accused the American military on Saturday of abusing detainees in the Bagram prison facilities and reiterated President Hamid Karzai's demand that the U.S. turn the detainees over to Afghan custody. The U.S. is holding about 3,000...
A senior general in the Syrian regime has announced he is defecting from the army with up to 50 of his soldiers, as Arab League monitors continue to wrestle with President Bashar al Assad's ongoing violence against protesters. Colonel Afeef Mahmoud Suleiman said the...
Egyptian security forces have erected four massive concrete walls in the streets connecting Tahrir Square to government buildings since renewed crackdowns on protesters in November and December. The barriers in the middle of Cairo are an indication of the continuing...
Israel has temporarily expelled from the West Bank a group of Jewish extremists suspected of carrying out violence, vandalism, and harassment on Palestinians. An army statement on Thursday said that an Israeli military commander in the West Bank signed “administrative...
Prosecutors in the Hosni Mubarak trial claim Egypt's ousted president, his security chief and six top police officers were the "actual instigators" of the killing of more than 800 protesters during Arab Spring protests last year. Mubarak and his seven co-defendants...
The U.S. ambassador to Iraq has expressed approval of Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki's quest to detain Iraq's vice president on terrorism charges, despite almost everyone else recognizing it as part of a troubling pattern of consolidating dictatorial power. "There is...
