Highlights
 
Rights Groups Still Waiting for Obama to Deliver    Militants Capture Pakistani Town of Sultanwas    Calls for Torture Inquiry Aren't Going Away    Court Rebuffs Feds, Reinstates Torture Suit    North Korea Threatens New Nuke Tests Over Sanctions    April Iraq's Deadliest Month in Over a Year    Pakistanis Conflicted on Militant Battle    White House Split on Drone Strikes Against Balochistan    Surveillance Effort Draws Civil Liberties Concern    Official Defends Signing Interrogation Memos    Taliban Advance in Pakistan Prompts Shift by US    Pakistani Militant Faction: Sufi Muhammad Missing Since Sunday    US Sees Spike in Afghanistan, Pakistan Attacks    23 Killed as Violence Grips Karachi    Bomb Kills Nine in Turkey    NATO Resumes Russia Contacts, Differences Linger    Donkey Bombs Imperil UK Troops in Afghanistan    KBR Faces Wrongful Death, Toxic Exposure Claims Over Iraq and Afghanistan Burn Pits    Taliban Spokesman: Buner Attack 'Only to Appease US'    Bin Laden Still Alive, Assures Obama    Governor: Balochistan Situation Worsening    US Drone Strike Kills at Least 10 in South Waziristan    Attacks Have Ripple Effect on Iran-Iraq Ties    US-Iraqi Patrol Ambushed While Distributing Grants    Obama: Bond With Israel 'Unshakable'    US House to Speed War Funds Amid Pakistan Concerns    Is Obama Fiddling While Iraq Burns?    Torture 'to Achieve a Political Objective'    Pelosi the Hawk    Obama Administration Pushes to Fund Pakistan Army    Obama's Iraq: The Picture of Dorian Gray    Disclosure of 'Secrets' in the '70s Didn't Destroy the Nation    At Least 41 Killed in Baghdad Shi'ite District Bombings    Busting the Torture Myths    US Troops to Target Opium Trade in Afghanistan    Scores of Pakistani Forces Captured During Buner Offensive    Holder: 30 Gitmo Inmates Approved for Release    The Iraq We Leave Behind    The Mainstream Media's Waterboarding Lies    
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News
Updated April 30, 2009 - 11:20 PM EDT
White House Split on Pakistan Drone Strikes
 
  Taliban Advance in Pakistan Prompts Shift by US
  House to Speed War Funds Amid Pakistan Concerns
  US Sees Spike in Afghanistan, Pakistan Attacks
Militants Capture Another Pakistani Town
 
  Pakistanis Conflicted on Militant Battle
  US Drone Strike Kills at Least 10 in South Waziristan
  Series of Gun Attacks in Pakistan's Largest City Kill 34
April Iraq's Deadliest Month in Over a Year
 
  At Least 51 Killed in Baghdad Shi'ite District Bombings
  Attacks Have Ripple Effect on Iran-Iraq Ties
  Wednesday: 73 Iraqis Killed, 116 Wounded
Holder: 30 Gitmo Inmates Approved for Release
 
  Spanish Judge Opens Guantánamo Investigation
  Rights Groups Still Waiting for Obama to Deliver
  Surveillance Effort Draws Civil Liberties Concern
N. Korea Threatens Nuclear Tests Over Sanctions
Lebanon Releases Generals in Hariri Case
Obama: Bond With Israel 'Unshakable'
Viewpoints
Torture 'to Achieve a Political Objective'  by Andy Worthington
Obama's Iraq: The Picture of Dorian Gray  by Jeremy Scahill
The Mainstream Media's Waterboarding Lies  by Glenn Greenwald
Pelosi the Hawk  by Stephen Zunes
Is Obama Fiddling While Iraq Burns?  by Robert Dreyfuss
Busting the Torture Myths  by Scott Horton

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Frontline
NATO Resumes Russia Contacts, Differences Linger
Bin Laden Still Alive, Assures Obama
Calls for Torture Inquiry Aren't Going Away
ICC-Wanted Warlord in UN-Backed Congo Offensive
Khmer Rouge Prison Chief Describes Torture
Credentials Challenged, Lebanese Radical Quotes West Point
US Soldiers Kill 2 in N. Iraq
 
Iraq Attacks Continue
Brutal Reminders That Peace in Iraq Is Far From Assured
US-Iraqi Patrol Ambushed While Distributing Grants
Iraq Violence Lingers for Women, Children: UN
Major Attacks in Iraq Since Jan. 1
Wednesday: 73 Iraqis Killed, 116 Wounded
Today in Iraq
Iraq Moves to Dissolve National Security Council
Iraq Seizes Group Accused of Baghdad Car Bombs
Iraq Charges Former Deputy Kerbala Governor With Terror
Few Tears Shed as British Army Leaves Basra, the City Where It Was Never Able to Keep Order
The War at Home
KBR Faces Wrongful Death, Toxic Exposure Claims Over Iraq and Afghanistan Burn Pits
Federal Bid to Keep '9/11 Photo-Op' Secret Takes Shine Off Obama's 100th Day
Murtha Airport Got Military Upgrades
Rape-Murder Accused Wanted 'To Kill All Iraqis'
Ex-Marine Speaks Out Against Iraq War
Konami Spikes Release of Fallujah Videogame

'War on Terror'
US Senator Invites 'Torture Memo' Writer to Testify
Official Defends Signing Interrogation Memos
Jurors in Miami Terror Case Confused on Charges
Muslims Get Long Sentences for US Army Base Plot
Sept. 11 Image for Kids Causes Furor
Panel Warns US on Cyberwar Plans
Two Jailed Over Terror Training After London Bombing Trial
Reagan's DOJ Prosecuted Texas Sheriff for Waterboarding Prisoners
US Urged to Free Young Guantánamo Detainees
German Confesses to Selling Rocket Material to Iran
Iran
Peres: Bombing Iran May Not Be the 'Best Solution'
US Won't Set Timelines for Iran Talks
Iran Says US Journalist Could Ask for Amnesty: Report
Iran Ex-Revolutionary Guards Chief to Run for President
Iran's Khatami Throws Weight Behind Reformist Mousavi
New Commander Vows Boosting Iran's Might
Palestine/Israel
Sick Gazans Victims of Hamas-Fatah Power Struggle
Arab-Israelis March for Right of Return
Deprived of Concrete, Gaza Discovers Bricks
Turkey
Turkey Blast Kills Nine Soldiers
Turkey's Top Officer Denies Plot to Topple Government
Suicide Attack Foiled at University in Turkish Capital
Turkey's Army Chief Dismisses Israeli Criticism of Joint Exercise With Syria
Middle East
Impact of Generals' Release on Lebanon
Mubarak Warns Iran, Hezbollah
Syria's Detention of Human Rights Activist 'Unlawful'
Saudi, Jordanian Kings Discuss Mideast Peace Efforts
Cuba
Cuba's Raul Castro Again Offers Talks With US
Raul Castro: Obama's Cuba Policy Changes 'Minimal'
 
Not Finding WMD
Scores of Pakistani Forces Captured During Buner Offensive
Pakistani Militant Faction: Sufi Muhammad Missing Since Sunday
Civilians Flee as Pakistani Forces Hit Resistance
Pakistan Says 50 Taliban Killed in Buner Operation
Obama Administration Pushes to Fund Pakistan Army
Governor: Balochistan Situation Worsening
Pakistan Retakes Key Town as Zardari Calls for Unity
Likely Fallout as Pakistan Takes Fight to Taliban in Swat
PM Issues Shoot-on-Sight Orders in Karachi
Taliban Spokesman: Buner Attack 'Only to Appease US'
Up to One Million Displaced in Northwest Pakistan
Gen. Conway: Pakistan Concerned About US Plan in Afghanistan
Swat Valley Taliban Vow to Reform Banking
Afghanistan
Taliban Threatens Wave of Attacks Against US Surge
Afghanistan Cancels Public Celebration of Mujaheddin Day
US Troops to Target Opium Trade in Afghanistan
Afghan Civilian Shot by NATO Forces
US Military Says 42 Insurgents Killed in Afghanistan
1 German Soldier Killed, 9 Wounded in Afghanistan
Donkey Bombs Imperil UK Troops in Afghanistan
Czech Fighters in Afghanistan Scrutinized
Britain to Send 700 Extra Troops to Afghanistan
Australia to Send 450 More Troops to Afghanistan
Sri Lanka
The Last Days of Sri Lanka's Long War?
Tamil Defector Claims Tigers Killed 200 Civilians
Timeline: Sri Lanka's 25-Year Civil War
India/Kashmir
Bullets and Ballots in India's General Election
In India, a Grass-Roots Shift
Kashmir Shuts in Poll Protest, Troops Patrol
North Korea
China, Japan Meet as North Korea Raises Tensions
A Look at North Korea's Yongbyon Nuclear Arms Plant
Asia
China to Let Taiwan Participate in UN Body
Myanmar Opposition Sets Conditions for Elections
Kyrgyzstan Says No Talks on US Base Staying Open
War-Era Japan Photos Surface in Philippines
Pirates of Somalia
At Former British Prison, Somali Pirates Tell Their Side
Somali Piracy Costs Suez Canal Business
Africa
Former Child Soldier Urges UN Action
UK, Libya Ratify Prisoner Transfer Deal
Nigeria: Canadian Woman Kidnapped Still Being Held
Darfur Kidnappers Say Freed Western Aid Workers
Huge Blasts Rock Tanzanian City
Russia
Russia Insists It Won't Militarize the Arctic
Kasparov Stages Guerrilla Protest at Moscow Trial
The Hague
UN Judge Rejects Karadzic Jurisdiction Challenges
Colombia
Colombia Hostage in Middle of Political Tug of War
 
Columnists

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4/29/2009
Calamity Jane Harman Shoots Herself in the Foot

Kelley B. Vlahos
4/30/2009
The Iraq We Leave Behind

Charles V. Peña
4/29/2009
To Vaccinate or Not to Vaccinate?

David R. Henderson
4/28/2009
The Case for Prosecuting Bush

Philip Giraldi
4/27/2009
Some Might Call It Treason

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

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

Nebojsa Malic
4/22/2009
Confessions and Lamentations

Alan Bock
4/20/2009
Monotony in the Americas

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