Retired judge Susan Crawford, who was responsible for overseeing the Guantanamo tribunals, admitted in an interview published today that the United States tortured detainee Mohammed al-Qahtani. "This was not any one particular act; this was just a combination of...
Tensions between India and Pakistan continue to worsen nearly two months after the Mumbai attacks. Today, Indian Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor commented on the increase in the number of Pakistani troops along the powder-keg border between the two. Gen. Kapoor said...
America's Joint Forces Command issued their annual "Joint Operating Environment" report, which projects future wars and other potential global threats. This year, the report pointed to two nations which may undergo a "rapid and sudden collapse." One, unsurprisingly,...
The International Criminal Court declared today that it has no jurisdiction over the actions of Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip, meaning that the growing number of calls by humanitarian organizations to investigate Israeli activities in the Gaza Strip cannot lead to...
The struggling Egyptian ceasefire effort for the Gaza Strip seems to have finally made some meaningful progress after a week of backdoor wrangling, as Hamas has accepted the deal "in principle," though they said they had reservations about some of the terms and were...
19 days in, the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip passed another major milestone, with over 1,000 Palestinians killed in the attack. The Gaza-based Palestinian Center for Human Rights, which has been tracking the toll, said 673 of those killed were civilians, with 225...
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's Monday comments, in which he claimed to have ordered President Bush to prevent an American vote in favor of the UN Security Council's Gaza ceasefire resolution and publicly shamed Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in the process...
Top Israeli defense officials say that the military has accomplished all that it possibly could in nearly three weeks of attacks on the Gaza Strip, and they support the idea of ending the operations before the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama next week....
Attempting to capitalize on the international outrage, particularly in the Muslim world, over the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, Osama bin Laden's newest audio tape calls for all Muslims to launch a jihad against Israel. His speech also targeted the leaders of most of...
Defense Minister Ehud Barak is reportedly in favor of a week-long "humanitarian ceasefire" in the Gaza Strip to curb the growing international criticism about the war's toll on civilians. Even Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, who spoke with pride at how the military had...
