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  • NATO genocide in Afghanistan

    Sloganeers, propagandists and politicians often use the word "genocide" in ways that the law does not permit. But rarely is the crime of genocide invoked when Western militaries murder Muslim groups. This essay argues that the internationally recognized crime of genocide applies to the intentional killings that NATO troops commit on a weekly.. More

  • "This brutality will never break our will to be free"

    By: Khalid Mish'al For 18 months my people in Gaza have been under siege, incarcerated inside the world's biggest prison, sealed off from land, air and sea, caged and starved, denied even medication for our sick. After the slow death policy came the bombardment. In this most densely populated of places, nothing has been spared Israel's warplanes, from.. More

  • Gaza: The Massacre in Zeitoun

    IN the annals of war crimes, the name "Zeitoun" will assume its place alongside names like "My Lai," "Fallujah," "Sabra-Shatila," "Guernica," "Nanking," "Lidice," and "Wounded Knee." In the last two days, the massacre that took place in Zeitoun, a neighborhood on the southern.. More

  • Qaradawi: God will not allow you (West, US) to support injustice

    The prominent Muslim scholar Dr. Youssef al-Qaradaawi strongly criticized Israel over its unjust assault on Gaza and appealed to the United States to end its support for the Jewish state. "Our message to the aggressor Jews ... who rely on the power, money, arms of America and its veto power (at the U.N.) is that the time of God's promised justice.. More

  • West Bank despair over Gaza assault

    "It is so much more than disappointment," explains Abir, a Gazan now living in the West Bank city of Ramallah. "In my worst nightmares I never imagined that Gaza would literally be slaughtered and the West Bank would be quiet." While protests against the Israeli assaults on Gaza have surged across the world in the past week, Ramallah.. More

  • Gaza fighters await Israeli troops

    Maintaining a night vigil along the border with Israel, Hamas fighters sat within reach of a device connected to wires running underground. "What you see are little surprises, but what awaits (the Israelis) is beyond their imagination," said Abu Sakher, a Hamas battalion commander making the rounds of frontier positions held by his men awaiting.. More

  • Gazans: 'We are living a nightmare'

    As the death toll from Israel's aerial bombardment of the Gaza Strip continues to climb, Al Jazeera asked Gazans to describe the situation where they are and to explain how the offensive is affecting them. Majed Badra, 23, Gaza City, cartoonist and student at the Islamic Universitysaid: "Unfortunately the situation is very bad in Gaza city -.. More

  • Iraq reconstruction 'has failed'

    The US-led force's $100bn effort to rebuild Iraq has failed amid bureaucratic quarrels, ignorance of Iraqi society and violence in the country, the New York Times says, quoting a US federal report. The newspaper said on its website on Saturday that it had obtained a draft copy of Hard Lessons: The Iraq Reconstruction Experience, which is circulating.. More

  • Half of Afghan prisoners have not faced trial: UN

    More Afghans are being detained without trial, with poor people or those without powerful connections, the most common victims, unable to pay bribes to secure their release, the United Nations said on Monday. Afghanistan is emerging from nearly 30 years of war and its judicial and law enforcement systems are still very much in their infancy. Corruption.. More

  • Gaza life runs backwards as Israel siege bites deeper

    Gaza Strip residents are going back to the days of kerosene stoves and firewood-gathering as Israel's blockade of foreign aid supplies of fuel and food bites much deeper. Bakeries in the territory are now using low-quality grain or animal feed to produce bread. Israel closed border crossings to Gaza although it has to lift siege according to the.. More

  • Iraqis want walls torn down

    As the Iraqi parliament continues to debate the US-Iraq Status of Forces Agreement (Sofa), residents of Baghdad are urging the government to tear down the walls which separate their neighborhoods. Iraqis say the walls were designed to consolidate sectarianism and establish a number of cantons; now that security has improved, they say, there is no reason.. More

  • Iraqi doctors wary of carrying guns

    Iraq's medical professionals have reacted with caution to a government waiver that doctors be allowed to carry arms for self-defense purposes. The Baghdad government is hoping the arms initiative will improve security conditions to lure doctors who now reside in Syria, Jordan, Egypt and the Gulf back to the country. Nadhim Abd al-Hamid, the.. More

  • Warning on 'dire' Iraq conditions

    The Red Cross is warning that despite some improvements in security in Iraq, the condition of the country's infrastructure remains dire. In a statement issued from their headquarters in Geneva, the Red Cross said it was particularly concerned about poor water supplies. It estimates that over 40% of Iraq's civilian population still has no access.. More

  • 'Toxic waste' behind Somali piracy

    Somali pirates have accused European firms of dumping toxic waste off the Somali coast and are demanding an $8m ransom for the return of a Ukranian ship they captured, saying the money will go towards cleaning up the waste. The ransom demand is a means of "reacting to the toxic waste that has been continually dumped on the shores of our country.. More

  • Secrets of Iraq's Death Chamber

    Prisoners are being summarily executed in the government's high-security detention centre in Baghdad. Like all wars, the dark, untold stories of the Iraqi conflict drain from its shattered landscape like the filthy waters of the Tigris. And still the revelations come. The Independent has learnt that secret executions are being carried out in the.. More