They are in the schools, in empty hospitals, in halls and mosques and in the streets. The Shia Muslim refugees of southern Lebanon, driven from their homes by the Israelis, are arriving in Sidon by th...
New questions about US military's 'aggression' in Iraq,
In a series of reports and news stories that emerged over the weekend, the tactics used by the US military in Iraq to interrogate prisoners and to hunt down suspected insurgents came under renewed scr...
War crimes warning as civilian deaths increase, Timesonline
AS CIVILIAN casualties mount, the UN is telling the belligerents that they might be guilty of war crimes. UN officials are accusing both Hezbollah and Israel of violating the laws of war by using in...
U.S.: Soldiers Tell of Detainee Abuse in Iraq, Human Rights Watch
Torture and other abuses against detainees in U.S. custody in Iraq were authorized and routine, even after the 2004 Abu Ghraib scandal, according to new accounts from soldiers in a Human Rights Watch ...
Israels reckless, high-stakes decision to launch simultaneous wars against both Hamas and Hezbollah last week is a critical, perhaps world-shattering event. It cannot be seen merely in its local cont...
Does a State of War Give Bush a Right to Commit War Crimes?, CounterPunch
Right-wing columnist Charles Krauthammer has weighed in against the Supreme Court's latest ruling in Hamdan, claiming that the Court erred in barring President Bush from denying Guantanamo detainees t...
Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina often plays the contrarian, the conservative Republican willing to poke a stick in the eye of the White House.
Iraqi officials said Wednesday that U.S. and coalition forces as well as an increase in sectarian violence were behind the surge in civilian casualties cited in a U.N. report.
