The charges are explosive – and cut against a heroic narrative that defined, in part, arguably the greatest foreign policy success of President Barack Obama’s first term in office. According to Pulitzer Prize-winning author Seymour Hersh, the US raid that…
Category: Conflicts
First North Korean SLBM presents wholly novel threat
The submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) test performed from the DPRK’s east coast is a perfect example of how well North Korea can hide its advanced weapons programs if it really wants to. The land-based test stand used for testing the…
Rebels kill 8 Indian paramilitary soldiers
Suspected rebels on Sunday ambushed and killed eight Indian paramilitary soldiers in the remote, troubled northeast, police said. Naga rebels armed with automatic weapons fired at two trucks carrying the soldiers in Nagaland state, in a region bordering Myanmar, police…
Al Qaeda Indian Subcontinent claims liabilty for Avijit murder
Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) has claimed responsibility for the murder of an American atheist blogger inBangladesh over two months ago, according to SITE Intelligence Group. Avijit Roy was hacked to death by two assailants with machetes on…
US seeks anti-terrorism tips from Bangladesh
Dhaka: The United States has sought tips from Bangladesh to deal with global terrorism and extremism, saying many countries could replicate Dhaka’s experience in addressing the issue. U.S. Under Secretary of States for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman said this during…
Why Kim Jong Un cancelled his Russia visit
A widely anticipated event is not happening. As the Russian President’s press secretary stated for the record this week: Marshal Kim Jong Un will not be participating in forthcoming celebrations for VE day in Moscow. This is hardly a surprising…
Six Baltimore police officers on bond in Freddie Gray’s death
Kayla Ruble The six Baltimore police officers who have been charged in the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray turned themselves in on Friday afternoon. They have since posted bond. “No one in our city is above the law,” Baltimore Mayor…
Left behind to die – Andet’s story
Birgit Schwarz It was about two o’clock in the afternoon, on a warm December day in 2013, when the sound of gunshots and frantic shouting abruptly woke Ambroise Andet from his midday nap. Startled, the 27-year-old propped himself up where…
Mexico Govt brushing off report of another massacre of civilians
Word emerged this week that Mexican government forces were likely behind a mass killing of civilians in the state of Michoacán, the third extrajudicial massacre by state forces known in Mexico in less than a year. The government said it…
Warehouse strike threatens Yemen aid delivery
Beirut – An airstrike by the Saudi Arabia-led coalition that destroyed a humanitarian aid warehouse in northern Yemen on April 18, 2015, was an apparent violation of the laws of war. The attack in Saada killed at least one unidentified…
Legacy of War
Robert J. Burrowes As the world continues to engage in various commemorations in relation to World War I, Australia approaches the centenary anniversary of a defining event in the nation’s history: ANZAC Day. On 25 April 1915, and for many…
Fighting on in what could become Crimea of Myanmar
By Raymond Pagnucco and Jonathan Gad This past February, Peng Jiasheng came home — but he didn’t come alone. The former leader of the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) brought with him fighters who’d fled with him six years…
Iran warns, Yemen intervention is a ‘mistake’
By Harriet Salem Iranian President Hassan Rouhani warned Saudi Arabia and the US on Thursday that they would soon learn they were “making a mistake” by intervening against Houthi rebels in Yemen, amid a deepening war of words over the…
Bring peace to Afghanistan
Mairead Maguire Nobel Laureate Mairead Maguire Goes to Afghanistan to Join Afghan Peace Volunteers’ Demand for Cease Fire and Negotiation I have come here to give my support to the campaign for 2 million friends of the Afghan people. You…
Armsdrop story returns to haunt Gen Bhuiyan
bdnews24.com A Kolkata newspaper has resurrected the 1995 Purulia armsdrop controversy, implicating the leader of a Bangladesh freedom fighters’ team now there in the Victory Day celebrations of the Indian army. Retired Maj Gen Shubid Ali Bhuiyan is leading a…