Global IssuesNews headlines for “War on Terror”, page 14
SOMALIA: U.S. Greenlights Aid to Shabaab-Controlled Areas
- Inter Press Service
The Barack Obama administration promised Tuesday that the U.S. would not prosecute relief agencies for delivering aid to parts of Somalia controlled by the Islamist insurgent group al- Shabaab, despite concerns that unrestricted aid in the failed state would be diverted to the wrong hands.
Famine Relief in Somalia Stymied by Access
- Inter Press Service
While an estimated 12.4 million people linger on the brink of starvation in the Great Horn of Africa, U.S. officials and world relief agencies said Monday that even in a 'best case scenario' the crisis will worsen as the areas in most desperate need remain cut off from access to relief.
U.S. Accuses Tehran of 'Secret Deal' with Al-Qaeda
- Inter Press Service
In a significant escalation in the rhetorical battle against Iran, the U.S. Treasury Department Thursday accused Tehran of having forged a 'secret deal' with Al-Qaeda to allow it to use Iranian territory to transport money and operatives to Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Ex-PM Says Taliban Offer Talks For Pullout Date
- Inter Press Service
The Taliban leadership is ready to negotiate peace with the United States right now if Washington indicates its willingness to provide a timetable for complete withdrawal, according to a former Afghan prime minister who set up a secret meeting between a senior Taliban official and a U.S. general two years ago.
India-Pakistan Rivalry Afghanistan's 'Gordian Knot'
- Inter Press Service
U.S. hopes to withdraw forces and leave behind a stable Afghanistan may rest on whether Pakistan and India can lower bilateral tensions and refrain from using Afghan territory for a new proxy war.
North Atlantic Alliance of Neo-Fascists
- Inter Press Service
The Norwegian right wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik, who killed at least 76 people in two terrorist attacks Jul. 22 Oslo and Utoya, is a member of a network of more than 10,000 neo-fascist groups spread across North America and Western and Northern Europe.
PAKISTAN: Taliban Backs Off From Attacking Civilians
- Inter Press Service
A series of Taliban attacks selectively targeting Pakistani security forces is being seen as an attempt to shore up the flagging popularity of the fundamentalist Islamic scholars.
PAKISTAN: Study Rebuts U.S. Claims of 'No Civilian Deaths'
- Inter Press Service
As the Pakistani public grows increasingly outraged at the United States' drone attacks in the northwest region of the country, a recent study by the London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism is contradicting U.S. officials' insistence that 'not a single civilian life' has been claimed in the covert war.
Execution Videos Strike Terror in Pakistan
- Inter Press Service
A video showing a group of 16 Pakistani policemen, hands tied behind their backs, being executed by Taliban gunmen in the Dir district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is only the latest in a series showing brutal acts designed to strike terror in the areas bordering Afghanistan.
PAKISTAN: 'U.S. Military Aid Came With Spies Attached'
- Inter Press Service
Defence analysts in Pakistan believe that foregoing 800 million US dollars worth of aid may be a fair bargain for ridding this country of a over a hundred ‘military trainers’ who were suspected of being spies.
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