A military watchdog has adjourned public hearings into the alleged torture of Afghan prisoners for a week while lawyers battle over the scope of its investigation. The chair of the Military Police Complaints Commission, Peter Tinsley, stopped the hearings into complaints filed by two human-rights groups hours after they began Wednesday.
The probe is looking into what military police in Kandahar knew – or should have known – about the possible abuse of prisoners Canadian soldiers handed over to Afghanistan's notorious intelligence service for interrogation.
A prominent Palestinian children's rights charity has shut down its operations after decades of documenting violations...
The Red Cross said it was “outraged by the devastating death and destruction” in densely populated...
Questionnaires of children forcibly taken from a Kherson orphanage have been found on a Russian state...
A 68-year-old Palestinian woman was beaten to death by Israeli soldiers during a raid on her...
