News headlines for “War on Terror”, page 13
EUROPE: ‘Rethink Rhetoric Against Islam’
- Inter Press Service
Conservative governments and centre-right parties in Europe were attacking multiculturalism and denigrating Muslim immigrants long before Norwegian right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik used similar arguments to justify mass killings in Oslo and Utoya Island.
PAKISTAN: Videogames Pictured Killing the Innocent
- Inter Press Service
‘Gaming in Waziristan’, a current photo exhibition, graphically supports charges that drone strikes carried out by the United States military and intelligence in Pakistan’s tribal areas kill more civilians than Taliban.
Torture Charges Go Forward Against Bush-Era Defence Secretary
- Inter Press Service
On Apr. 16, 2006, for reasons still unknown to them, two U.S. contractors in Iraq's Red Zone were handcuffed, blindfolded and transported to Camp Cropper, a U.S. military facility located a few miles from Baghdad International Airport.
'New' Iraq a Nightmare for Women, Minority Groups
- Inter Press Service
A United Nations report on Iraq says the human rights situation there remains fragile, and huge development challenges loom as the country transitions out of a near decade-long conflict.
Somali Women Bear Superhuman Burden
- Inter Press Service
While the exit of the Al-Qaeda-backed rebel group Al Shabaab has led to the first U.N. relief airlift in five years in the capital of famine-wracked Somalia, the situation for women and children remains precarious, humanitarian workers warn.
PAKISTAN: Tourism Takes On Taliban, Peacefully
- Inter Press Service
Standing in the busy main market place of Mingora, it is hard to think that just two years ago this city in Swat district was under the tyranny of the Taliban.
RIGHTS-SRI LANKA: Recovery of Disappeared's Body Raises Hopes
- Inter Press Service
The details would have done credit to the plot of a spy thriller, except they are chillingly real.
U.S. Silent on Iranian Raids Against Kurdish Terror Groups
- Inter Press Service
Iran and the United States don't agree on much these days, but there are a few views they hold in common.
No Let-Up in Karachi Violence
- Inter Press Service
There has been more violence in the Pakistani city of Karachi, where at least 42 people have been killed since Monday.
U.S. Muslims More Tolerant, Opposed to Violence than Other Faiths
- Inter Press Service
Muslims in the United States express greater tolerance for members of other faiths than any other major religious group, according to a major new survey and report released here Thursday by the Abu Dhabi Gallup Center.