UN draws up 2nd list of Syrian war crimes suspects
Source: reuters // Reuters AlertNet GENEVA, Sept 17 (Reuters) – United Nations human rights investigators said on Monday that they had drawn up a new secret list of Syrians and […]
U.S. strikes on Iran would risk major war: report
WASHINGTON: An assessment of the costs and benefits of attacking Iran says U.S. military strikes probably would trigger Iranian retaliation that carried risks of igniting all-out war in the Middle […]
Israel to strike Iran as window of opportunity narrows?
Tensions between Iran and Israel continue to escalate amid reports over the past week that Tel Aviv has drawn up plans for a strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities before the US presidential election in November. Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak and the country’s new ambassador to China, Matan Vilnai, recently […]
“Selective Justice”: U.S. court fines Iran $813 mn for 1983 Lebanon attack
WASHINGTON: A U.S. federal judge has ordered Iran to pay more than $813 million in damages and interest to the families of 241 U.S. soldiers killed in the 1983 bombing […]
Ghulam Azam sent to Jail for War Crime
Source: Daily Star Forty years after war of independence of Bangladesh, former Jamaat-e-Islami ameer Ghulam Azam was sent to jail yesterday on charges of committing crimes against humanity and peace, genocide and war crimes in 1971. Read more.
Iran Threatens to Choke Vital Route of Oil Shipments: Drums of War sounding
NY Times: A senior Iranian official on Tuesday delivered a sharp threat in response to economic sanctions being readied by the United States, saying his country would retaliate against any crackdown by blocking all oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz, a vital artery for transporting about one-fifth of the […]
NATO fears resurgent Germany
RT News: Although Germany and Russia have developed into modern democracies with free-market systems, NATO still fears the revival of the former Nazi and Soviet states, says Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin. Rogozin, Russia’s former Permanent Representative to NATO, told officers of the Aerospace Forces in the restricted area of […]
US war woe: Suicide kills more soldiers than combat
RT: When guns fall silent and ceasefires are agreed, wars live on in the minds of the men and women who fought them. And a killer still stalks them, more deadly than the enemies they once faced. Being in a conflict environment is killing US soldiers. But surprisingly, the biggest […]
US Asks Journals to Censor Articles on Flu Virus: Preparations for the next war
CNBC: In the experiments, conducted in the United States and the Netherlands, scientists created a highly transmissible form of a deadly flu virus that does not normally spread from person to person. It was an ominous step, because easy transmission can lead the virus to spread all over the world. […]
Scars of Bangladesh independence war 40 years on
Courtesy: BBC News By Shahzeb Jillani South Asia Editor, BBC World Service Indian army soldiers attacking Naya Chor in Sindh in support of Bengali rebels of the liberation army during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 I was born in the middle of a cold winter night in December […]
Iran almost done decoding US drone
By ASSOCIATED PRESS TEHRAN: Iran claims its experts are in the final stages of recovering data from the US surveillance drone captured by Iranian armed forces. Lawmaker Parviz Sorouri, from […]
With lives at stake, beleaguered Syrians opt for pain of exile
By Khetam Malkawi JORDAN TIMES MAFRAQ – Although aware of the hardships they would face, a desire to live in peace and security has prompted many Syrians to flee violence […]