Global IssuesNews headlines for “War on Terror”, page 25
Evidence of 2002 Taliban Offer Damages Myth of al Qaeda Ties
- Inter Press Service
The central justification of the U.S.-NATO war against the Afghan Taliban - that the Taliban would allow al Qaeda to return to Afghanistan - has been challenged by new historical evidence of offers by the Taliban leadership to reconcile with the Hamid Karzai government after the fall of the Taliban government in late 2001.
U.S.: Life Sentence for Embassy Bomber Praised by Rights Groups
- Inter Press Service
In the first successful prosecution of a Guantanamo detainee handled entirely by civilian courts, a federal judge Tuesday sentenced Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani to life in prison without parole for his role in the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 people and injured hundreds of others.
SPAIN: ETA Ceasefire Met with Wide Scepticism
- Inter Press Service
Spain's political parties demanded that ETA surrender its weapons and abandon violence for good, in response to a statement issued by the group Monday in which it declared a permanent ceasefire, verifiable by the international community, and called for negotiation.
How Afghanistan Became a War for NATO
- Inter Press Service
The official line of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), the NATO command in Afghanistan, is that the war against Afghan insurgents is vital to the security of all the countries providing troops there.
AFPAK: Give Us This Day Our Weekly Drone
- Inter Press Service
Hundreds of Al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders have fallen to drones since the first attack that killed Taliban leader Nek Muhammad in South Waziristan. Now many local people welcome drones.
EGYPT: Church Bombing Fuels Sectarian Rift
- Inter Press Service
It was a tragic year for Egypt’s minority Coptic Christian community that began with a drive-by shooting at a church in southern Egypt, and ended in deadly clashes near Cairo after authorities halted construction of a church. As 2010 came to a close, Copts ushering in the New Year with a midnight mass in the northern Egyptian city of Alexandria wondered if 2011 would be any better.
RIGHTS: Guantanamo Closure Recedes Into Distance
- Inter Press Service
President Barack Obama's hopes of closing the Guantanamo Bay detention facility appear as far from being realised as ever in the wake of new legislation approved by Congress this week.
U.S. Plan for High-Risk Raids into Pakistan Is More Than Psywar
- Inter Press Service
This week's leak to the New York Times of a proposal for U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) raids against Afghan insurgent sanctuaries in Pakistan may be intended to put more pressure on the Pakistani military to take action against those sanctuaries.
Gains in Kandahar Came with More Brutal U.S. Tactics
- Inter Press Service
The Barack Obama administration's claim of 'progress' in its war strategy is based on the military seizure of three rural districts outside Kandahar City in October.
U.S.: And Justice for Few
- Inter Press Service
Poor defendants on death row, immigrants in unfair deportation proceedings, torture victims, domestic violence survivors and victims of racial discrimination - all these groups are consistently being denied access to justice while those responsible for the abuses are protected, according to a new report by the American Civil Liberties Union.
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