Highlights
 
Maliki: US Raid Was 'Crime' That Violated Pact    Sri Lanka Rejects Tamil Tiger Cease-Fire Declaration    Clinton: US to Keep Troops in Iraq if Violence Escalates    20 Killed in Clash in Western Iran, Near Iraq's Kurdish Region    US Military Told Torture Yields 'Unreliable' Info    2008 'Deadliest' Year for Palestinians: Rights Group    Sri Lanka Satellite Images Show Tamil Refugees Massing on Beach    North Korea Begins Extracting Plutonium    Taliban Bar Pakistan Army Convoy as Tension Grows    US Interpreter Who Witnessed Torture in Iraq Shot Herself With Service Rifle    Iran Warns Israel Not to Attack Nuclear Sites    Torture Probably Killed More Americans Than 9/11    CIA Ignored Warnings From US Soldiers That Torture and Extreme Stress Would Not Work    Iraq Resists Pleas by US to Placate Hussein's Party    British Spy Loses Secrets in a Handbag on a Bus    US Warns Pakistan: 'Stop the Taliban Now – or We Will'    Two Pakistani Army Brigades Being Moved to Swat?    Pakistan: Stay Away From Swat, Militants Tell Troops    Pakistan Officials: Major Taliban Attacks on Cities Planned    Congress Not Likely to Form Panel on Alleged Torture    Eight Killed, 15 Wounded in Mortar Attack on Somali Parliament    Events in Pakistan, Afghanistan Overtake Obama's New Strategy    Iran Leader Blames US for Bombings in Iraq    Suicide Bombers Strike Afghan Governor's Compound; Five Policemen Killed    Destroying Afghan Opium Crop: but Does It Help?    Courts Overrule Govt in Abuse and Detention Cases    Dozens of CIA 'Ghost Prisoners' Missing    Obama and Netanyahu: Storm Clouds Ahead?    No Proof Torture Stopped Terror Attacks    Israeli FM: US Will Accept Any Israeli Decision    German FM to US: Remove Nukes    US Soldier Who Killed Herself – After Refusing to Take Part in Torture    Newt's Sword of Damocles    Obama's First 100 Days: A Mixed Record    Democratic Complicity and What 'Politicizing Justice' Really Means    End the Cuban Embargo!    Torturing the Truth    Follow the Evidence    
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News
Updated April 26, 2009 - 11:29 PM EDT
Maliki: US Raid 'Crime' Violated Pact
US to Keep Troops in Iraq if Violence Escalates
 
  Iraq Resists Pleas by US to Placate Hussein's Party
US to Pakistan: 'Stop Taliban Now – or We Will'
 
  Pakistan: Stay Away From Swat, Militants Tell Troops
  Taliban Bar Pakistan Army Convoy as Tension Grows
  Two Pakistani Army Brigades Being Moved to Swat?
  Pakistan Officials: Major Taliban Attacks on Cities Planned
Report: Sub Attacked Iranian Ship Near Sudan
 
  Israeli FM: Syria Is No Partner for Peace
  2008 'Deadliest' Year for Palestinians: Rights Group
Did Torture Kill More Americans Than 9/11?
 
  CIA Ignored Warnings From Soldiers That Torture Would Not Work
  Congress Not Likely to Form Panel on Alleged Torture
Sri Lanka Rejects Rebel Cease-Fire Declaration
20 Killed in Clash in Iran, Near Iraq's Kurdish Region
Viewpoints
Torture: Obama Equivocates, Conyers Investigates  by Thomas R. Eddlem
Gonzales and Harman's 'Completed Crimes'  Scott Horton Interviews Jeff Stein
End the Cuban Embargo!
by Sheldon Richman
Democratic Complicity and What 'Politicizing Justice' Really Means  by Glenn Greenwald
Sticker Shock and Awe  by Jeff Huber
Torturing the Truth  by Steve Chapman
Newt's Sword of Damocles
by Gordon Prather
Soldier Who Killed Herself – After Refusing to Take Part in Torture  by Greg Mitchell

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Frontline
British Spy Loses Secrets in a Handbag on a Bus
Events in Pakistan, Afghanistan Overtake Obama's New Strategy
India Says Pakistan Still Aiding Kashmir Rebels
In Pakistan, Guile Helps Taliban Gain
Critic Tests Putin in Russian Mayoral Election
Destroying Afghan Opium Crop: but Does It Help?
Effectiveness of Harsh Questioning Is Unclear
US Interpreter Who Witnessed Torture Shot Herself With Service Rifle
 
Iraq
Iraqi Forces Dismantle Two Booby-Trapped Cars, 20 Bombs in Baghdad
Iraq Raises Security at Shi'ite Shrines After Bombs
Iraq and US Working on ID of Detained Insurgent Suspect
Saturday: 1 US Soldier, 15 Iraqis Killed; 22 Wounded
The War at Home
Inside Accounts of Interrogation Approval Differ
US Lawmaker Opposes Guantánamo Uighurs Release
Senators Fight to Save Boeing Project
US Military
Army Trying to Stem Increases in Soldier Suicides
Magnitude of Dirty VA Hospital Equipment Unknown
Injured Soldier Gets New Face – and Anonymity
Iran
Iran Leader Blames US for Bombings in Iraq
Iran Warns Israel Not to Attack Nuclear Sites
US Journalist Jailed in Iran Goes on Hunger Strike
Palestine/Israel
Hamas Sees New Unity Talks as Most Difficult Yet
Five Palestinians Injured in West Bank Clash
Egyptian Border Guard Says Curbed Gaza Smuggling
Lebanon
Lebanon Issues Arrest Warrant for Hariri Assassin
Three Arrested in Lebanon on Israel Spy Charges
Turkey/Armenia
Turkey Objects to Obama's View of Armenian Killings
Turkey Says Obama Failed to Mention Slain Turks
Marking Armenian Genocide, Many Feel Snubbed by Obama
Final Peace Between Turkey, Armenia Hard to Achieve Say Experts
Battles of Britain
Commonwealth Cousins Prop Up the British Army
UK Refuses Full Settlement Rights for Ex-Nepalese Soldiers
Titan Prison Sites the British Government Kept Secret
Pirates of Somalia
US Navy: Pirates Seize German Ship Near Somalia
Somali Pirates Release Greek Ship, Says Pirate
Pirates Blinked First: Shipowner Reveals His Tough Talk
Somalia
Eight Killed, 15 Wounded in Mortar Attack on Somali Parliament
Mortars Fired Toward Somalia Parliament Hit Houses
Ethiopia
Official: Ethiopia Arrests 35 for Coup Plot
Professor at Pa. University Says He Didn't Organize Alleged Coup Attempt in Ethiopia
Sudan
Talks on Darfur Aid Workers Release Collapse
A Town Constantly on Brink of Chaos in Sudan
Africa
Militant Camps Destroyed in Niger Delta
Rwanda Suspends BBC Radio Service
British Hostage Released in Nigeria: Police
UN Tells Rebels in DR Congo to Give Up and Go Home
Two Killed, Six Injured in Madagascar Unrest
 
Pakistan
Amnesty, Disarming of Taliban Being Discussed in Pakistan
Flux in Pakistani Valley After Taliban Retreat
US Must Be Seen as Reliable Partner of Pakistan, Says Petraeus
Pakistani Children Mistake Bomb for Toy, 12 Killed
UK, France Against US Drone Attacks in Pakistan
Explosion Near Swat Valley in Pakistan Kills Nine People
Taliban Gunmen Shooting Couple Dead for Adultery Caught on Camera
Afghanistan
Suicide Bombers Strike Afghan Governor's Compound; Five Policemen Killed
Afghan Govt: Taliban Sustain Heavy Casualties Near Kabul
Karzai Looks Strong in Afghan Nominations
Romania to Send 150 More Soldiers to Afghanistan
Taliban Says It's Behind Kandahar Suicide Attack
Scores of Troops Traumatized by Afghan War
UN Warns of New Highs for Afghan Hashish Production
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka: Prabhakaran Is Trapped, Says Army Commander
Sri Lanka Satellite Images Show Tamil Refugees Massing on Beach
Lankan Envoy Rejects Calls for Ceasefire
UN to Press Sri Lanka for Access to War Zone
White House: Sri Lanka Must Stop Shelling Neutral Areas
Burnt, Broken, Silent: the Child Victims of Tamil War
Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger Rebels Forcing Children to Fight, UN Says
Sri Lankan War: 'We Have 450 Beds and Now Have 1,700 Patients'
Trapped Civilians in Sri Lanka Are Facing Starvation
Rebels Warn of Starvation in Sri Lanka War Zone
India
India's New Gandhi Will Refuse PM Job if Asked
India Issues Warning to Terrorists Amid Reports of Militant Infiltrations
North Korea
North Korea Begins Extracting Plutonium
US Blasts North Korea for Reactivating Nuclear Program
Clinton Says Hoping to Resume North Korea Talks
Timeline: North Korea's Nuclear Plant
Asia
Eight Muslim Rebels Killed in Clashes in Southern Philippines
Nepal PM's China Visit Put Off Amid Army Chief Row
Thai Protesters Hold First Rally Since Crackdown
Tibetan High Schoolers Protest in Monastery Town
Bolivia
Bolivia to Sue Hungarian for Complicity in Plot
Americans Still Dying
Father Speaks About Slain Topeka (KS) Soldier
Arkansas Marine Killed in Iraq Is Remembered
Friends Remember Hesperia (CA) Airman
Soldier (PR) Dies in Afghanistan From Non-Combat Injuries
Family, Friends Remember California Marine Killed in Iraq
 
Columnists

Justin Raimondo
4/24/2009
The Shamelessness of Jane Harman

Ivan Eland
4/25/2009
Obama's First 100 Days: A Mixed Record

Edouard Husson
4/24/2009
The United States of Europe?

Kelley B. Vlahos
4/23/2009
Ill Veterans Demand Answers

Nebojsa Malic
4/22/2009
Confessions and Lamentations

Alan Bock
4/20/2009
Monotony in the Americas

Charles V. Peña
4/15/2009
More Einsteinian North Korea Policy

Philip Giraldi
4/14/2009
Truth and Reconciliation

David R. Henderson
3/31/2009
To Reduce Violence,
End the Drug War

Ran HaCohen
2/18/2009
Abe Foxman's 'Anti-Semitic Pandemic'
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