Global IssuesNews headlines for “War on Terror”, page 8
TURKEY: Media Bares Its Anti-Kurdish Bias
- Inter Press Service
Following the attacks by Kurdish rebels against the Turkish military last week, the Turkish press has openly struck a nationalist and militaristic tone.
CHINA: New Laws to Crack Down on Uyghurs
- Inter Press Service
China is contemplating new legislation to define terrorism more precisely, raising fears that the government is using the so-called ‘war on terror’ to crack down on Uyghur separatists in the country’s restive Muslim region of Xinjiang.
U.N. Tally Excluded Most Afghan Civilian Deaths in Night Raids
- Inter Press Service
A July United Nations report asserting that only 30 civilians died in targeted raids in Afghanistan during the first six months of 2011 reflected only a very small fraction of night raids in which civilians were killed, according to officials of the independent Afghan commission which had co-produced the 2010 report on civilian casualties with the U.N. Mission.
U.S. May Have Concealed Deterrent Aim of Iranian Plan
- Inter Press Service
Scepticism about the U.S. allegation of an Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador has focused on doubts that high-level Iranian officials would have used someone like used car salesman Monssor Arbabsiar to carry out the mission.
Turkish Troops Enter Iraq After PKK Attacks
- Inter Press Service
Turkish forces have launched an incursion into the mountains of northern Iraq following simultaneous attacks by Kurdish separatists in southeastern Turkey that killed at least 26 soldiers.
SPAIN: Renowned Mediators Urge ETA to Lay Down Arms
- Inter Press Service
International mediators meeting in a peace conference Monday in Spain's northern Basque region were hopeful that the armed separatist group ETA would respond positively to their call for the group to lay down arms.
U.S. Officials Peddle False Intel to Support Terror Plot Claims
- Inter Press Service
Officials of the Barack Obama administration have aggressively leaked information supposedly based on classified intelligence in recent days to bolster its allegation that two higher- ranking officials from Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were involved in a plot to assassinate Saudi Ambassador Adel al-Jubeir in Washington, D.C.
FBI Account of 'Terror Plot' Suggests Sting Operation
- Inter Press Service
While the administration of Barack Obama vows to hold the Iranian government 'accountable' for the alleged plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in Washington, the legal document describing evidence in the case provides multiple indications that it was mainly the result of an FBI 'sting' operation.
Cuba Protests U.S. 'Double Standards' on Terrorism
- Inter Press Service
Cuba marked the 35th anniversary of the bombing of a Cubana airlines jet, in which 73 people were killed, with demonstrations against terrorism and a demand for the release of five government agents in prison in the United States.
U.S. Debate on Haqqani: Military or Political Solution?
- Inter Press Service
Dissension over Adm. Mike Mullen's accusation that the Haqqani network of Afghan insurgents is a 'veritable arm' of Pakistan's intelligence agency and the revelation that a U.S. official met with a Haqqani official have provided new evidence of a long-simmering struggle within the Barack Obama administration over how to deal with the most effective element of the Afghan resistance to U.S.-NATO forces.
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