Global Issues
News headlines for “War on Terror”, page 48
POLITICS-US: High Court to Hear Patriot Act Challenge
- Inter Press Service
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case challenging a law that critics say treats human rights advocates as criminal terrorists, and threatens them with 15 years in prison for advocating nonviolent means to resolve disputes.
POLITICS: Tajik Grip on Afghan Army Signals New Ethnic War
- Inter Press Service
Contrary to the official portrayal of the Afghan National Army (ANA) as ethnically balanced, the latest data from U.S. sources reveal that the Tajik minority now accounts for far more of its troops than the Pashtuns, the country's largest ethnic group.
CANADA: Govt Stonewalls on Alleged Torture of Afghan Detainees
- Inter Press Service
Canadians appear unlikely to get the entire story behind their military's transfer of Afghans captured in war to Afghan government authorities and possible torture.
YEMEN: U.S. Urged to Increase Aid and Involvement
- Inter Press Service
As President Barack Obama ponders escalating Washington's military and political investment in Afghanistan, a think tank close to his administration is urging Washington to ramp up U.S. aid and involvement in strife-torn Yemen, as well.
POLITICS: Afghan Army Turnover Rate Threatens U.S. War Plans
- Inter Press Service
One in every four combat soldiers quit the Afghan National Army (ANA) during the year ending in September, published data by the U.S. Defence Department and the Inspector General for Reconstruction in Afghanistan reveals.
POLITICS-US: Obama Quietly Backs Patriot Act Provisions
- Inter Press Service
With the health care debate preoccupying the mainstream media, it has gone virtually unreported that the Barack Obama administration is quietly supporting renewal of provisions of the George W. Bush-era USA Patriot Act that civil libertarians say infringe on basic freedoms.
POLITICS: Realities Collide at Halifax 'War Conference'
- Inter Press Service
While the world's top military elites gather inside a fortified hotel to discuss NATO's future, protesters question the organisation's legitimacy, secrecy, and the lack of democratic debate about the increasingly unpopular war in Afghanistan.
Q&A: 'Karzai Assigned a Rabbit to Take Care of the Carrot'
- Inter Press Service
In the aftermath of national elections widely condemned as fraudulent, the United States and its allies are wondering what to do about Afghanistan.
U.S.: Obama Returns to Greater Middle East Mess
- Inter Press Service
As Barack Obama arrives home from his weeklong tour of East Asia, he confronts a growing list of ever more urgent problems in the Greater Middle East that he inherited from George W. Bush's 'global war on terror'.
RIGHTS-US: 'New' Military Courts Still Lack Basic Safeguards
- Inter Press Service
While conservatives complain about Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other terror suspects from Guantanamo coming to New York for trial, many legal experts and human rights groups are being equally outspoken in their criticism of the 'new and improved' military commissions designated to try five other detainees.
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