News stories by Charles Fromm, page 3

Bahrain's security forces should immediately cease the use of torture to elicit confessions from prisoners suspected of security offences, says the New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW).

The U.S. House and Senate introduced new legislation Thursday that addresses the plight of women around the world who are victims of violence.

The Jordanian government should halt the arbitrary revocation of nationality from its citizens of Palestinian origin, according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report released Monday.

One year ago Thursday, the last Israeli tanks were lumbering out of the Gaza Strip, ending the 22-day Gaza War and leaving in their wake a decimated landscape and population.

In the wake of a botched Christmas Day airliner bombing claimed by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the direction of what used to be called the 'global war on terror' settled on Yemen this week, with the United States slated to escalate economic and military assistance to the country's beleaguered government.