The Obama administration has agreed to a request from Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh to travel to America, framing it in a thinly veiled excuse for him to seek medical treatment. Mr. Saleh said on Saturday he would leave Yemen for the U.S. "in the coming days......
According to senior British officials, the al Qaeda leadership in Pakistan is on the cusp of being definitively destroyed in 2012. But that is not a testament to the U.S. strategy of an unaccountable drone war, murdering innocents, and lavishly supporting the...
A gunman wearing an Afghan army uniform opened fire on NATO troops in western Afghanistan, wounding several them before being killed himself in return fire. The attack took place on Saturday at an outpost in Bala Boluk district, west of Kabul. NATO and Afghan...
Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh is expected to leave the country to seek additional medical treatment from injuries he sustained in an attack on his palace back in June. Saleh had spent months recuperating in Saudi Arabia before his latest return, and is expected...
A U.S. judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit by a former Guantanamo detainee seeking damages for torture and abuse he suffered while in U.S. custody. Abdul Rahim Abdul Razak al Janko, a Syrian national, was captured in 2002 and was released in 2009 after finally being...
The entire police force in Mexico's port city of Veracruz was dissolved on Wednesday, as the national army and navy took over security responsibilities. The disbanding of 800 police officers and 300 administrative employees is part of an effort to root out police...
The United Nation's top human rights official said on Wednesday that the U.S.-supported dictatorship in Bahrain was failing to prosecute human rights abuses and was continuing its use of excessive force against civilians. "We continue to receive reports of the...
In response to a court order, the British government has asked the U.S. to return to their custody a Bagram detainee held in U.S. custody for seven years without charge or trial. Yunus Rahmatullah, a 29-year-old Pakistani, was captured by British troops in Iraq in...
An American citizen from a Boston suburb was convicted on Tuesday on terrorism charges, but the charges were loosely defined and the verdict may represent a significant blow to free speech rights. Federal prosecutors claimed that Tarek Mehanna, 29, traveled to Yemen...
The U.S. and NATO have refused to put an end to night raids on Afghan homes, despite repeated objections and pleas from Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Night raids have become the top issue among many Afghans, exemplifying for them the grievances they have living under...
