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.
The charred shell of the Al-Masri family home in the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City was...
On 16 July, activists launched a digital campaign under the hashtag "They Lied to You" to...
Several Palestinians have been injured in separate attacks across the occupied West Bank amid Israel’s genocidal...
