The Israeli human rights group B'Tselem has released graphic video footage showing settlers fighting with Palestinians in Hebron and shooting two men at close range in the hours after a settler house was evacuated by police yesterday.
The collapse of Afghanistan is closer than the world believes. Kandahar is in Taliban hands – all but a square mile at the centre of the city – and the first Taliban checkpoints are scarcely 15 miles from Kabul.
The situation for women in Iraq has become a "national crisis" since the US-led invasion in 2003, a report by an international women's group has warned.
Report Sponsored by Amnesty, along with CARE International UK, CAFOD, Christian Aid, Medecins du Monde UK, Oxfam, Save the Children UK and Trocaire; on the Humanitarian Crises in the Gaza Strip. Describes the situation as the worst point in Gaza's history since 1967.
More than 100 people have been killed in the past few days in escalating violence between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants
The White House on Sunday called for an end to violence in Gaza and for a resumption of Middle East peace talks, as Israel kept up a deadly assault on the Hamas-run Palestinian strip.
The deadliest day of strikes in over a year has left at least 46 dead, a sizable number of which are civilians.
On Thursday, the U.S.S. Cole along with two other support ships were deployed off the coast of Lebanon.
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AP is reporting: The Iraqi Interior Ministry has ordered police to round up beggars, vagabonds and mentally disabled people from the streets of Baghdad to prevent them from being used by insurgents as suicide bombers, a spokesman said Tuesday.
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Global campaigners for freedom of expression, Article 19, issue a condemnation of the recently agreed upon charter by the Arab League.
Lebanon has a history of militant groups functioning within the state. The Lebanese military has, since its inception, never been in full control over the monopoly of violence in the state.
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Seymour Hersh tries to find out what Israel bombed in Syria. The article is made up of interviews with Israeli, American and Syrian officials. He concludes that while the installation was not nuclear, it still had a likelihood of being associated with the military.
Robert Fisk approaches the question of torture, by comparing contemporary methods with medieval.
An article by Noam Chomsky, contrasting official voices about the situation in Iraq, with on the ground events and peoples opinions.
An article written by the Syrian minister for expatriots, questioning whether the victims of Iraq should be given an International Tribunal.
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