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.
Israeli ministers and lawmakers led a march towards the Gaza Strip on Sunday, calling for the...
An estimated 26,000 children who entered the U.S. without parents or guardians are expected to be...
Dr Mazen Rantisi, a 71-year-old Palestinian physician popularly described as the “doctor of the poor”, says...
The genocide in Gaza since October 2023, which has killed more than 73,000 Palestinians, has marked...
