NATO warplanes continued to bomb pro-Gadhafi strongholds in Libya, as a military offensive by rebel forces struggled to battle the loyalist remnants and take control of the cities. Aiming at the cities of Sirte, Sabha, and Bani Walid, NATO bombs struck one radar...
Israel's naval blockade of the Gaza Strip violates international law, according to a panel of human rights experts reporting to the United Nations on Tuesday. The finding disputes a conclusion reached by the UN Palmer Report on the Israeli raid of the May 2010 Gaza...
In the wake of 9/11, President George W. Bush revamped the nation's food defense programs, drawing a government shield around the food supply in fear of a food-based biological terrorist attack. Those programs have grown to an unwieldy $3.4 billion,...
The United States would lose Saudi Arabia as an ally if it blocks the Palestinian bid for statehood at the United Nations this month, according to a New York Times piece written by a senior Saudi official. "Saudi Arabia would no longer be able to cooperate with...
Egypt's ruling military council said they would reactivate the emergency law they promised to end after Egyptian protesters stormed the Israeli Embassy in Cairo on Friday. In an attempt to bolster their own power, and in response to heavy pressure from the US and...
US-supported Afghan militias are committing widespread human rights abuses, but neither Washington or Kabul are holding them accountable or changing policy in light of the crimes, according to a new Human Rights Watch report. The report "documents serious abuses, such...
Iraqi detainees were severely tortured, beaten, and raped in an Iraqi National Police detention complex in 2006, according to a confidential State Department cable released by WikiLeaks. Discovery by US officials of the abuse did not lead to criminal investigations of...
A provision in the Senate’s version of the omnibus Pentagon spending measure shortly before Congress adjourned for its summer recess would shift all terror suspects into immediate military custody, dodging the civilian authorities traditionally tasked with such cases....
Ten years after the al Qaeda attacks on New York and Washington, most of the 9/11 Commission's findings have not been released to the public, despite the fact that the National Archives were scheduled to release the full material in 2009. Only a third of the...
Fears of a new terrorist threat to mark the tenth anniversary of 9/11 are rising as counterterrorism officials said Thursday they are investigating a "credible but unconfirmed" terror threat involving New York or Washington. No evidence of the new threat, reportedly...
