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Indian troops, in their ongoing acts of state-terrorism, martyred 51 Kashmiris, including two custodial deaths and one child in the outgoing month of May in occupied Kashmir. 

At least 19 people have been killed, including three soldiers, after the fiercest fighting in two weeks at the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in northern Lebanon. The Lebanese army advanced its troops on Friday and carried out intense shelling against Fatah al-Islam fighters within the camp.

On Friday, June 1, the first video of BBC reporter Alan Johnston was released, since he was kidnapped 80 days ago. Palestinian government and his family made pleas for his immediate release. “First of all, my captors have treated me very well,” said a pale Johnston, wearing a red sweatshirt …

After 12 years of almost no cooperation with the Hague tribunal, Bosnian Serb police finally arrest war crimes suspect wanted by the court. One of three most wanted war crimes fugitives sought by the Hague tribunal, Bosnian Serb army general Zdravko Tolimir, was arrested this week near the eastern Bosnian …

“The ground has been lost and all we are doing is surviving,” Capt Docherty said. “It’s completely barking mad.”

Tension is rising on Turkey’s border with Iraq amid speculation Ankara may be about to launch an incursion to tackle Kurdish rebels.

Looking back, it is strange how many years it has taken the liberals among us to understand that Israeli democracy needs safeguards – not against organizations trying to bring it down, or a political structure that can undermine it, or a too-powerful internal force that draws strength from the lack …

Ansar Al-Sunnah Take Down More American Humvees; Attack Peshmerga Forces

Tension is rising on Turkey’s border with Iraq amid speculation Ankara may be about to launch an incursion to tackle Kurdish rebels.

Consolidation is the catchphrase in the Russian energy industry. The government is aggressively taking back centralized control over the entire sector, and has already completed the reintegration of one-time powerhouses such as Yukos and Sibneft into state structures. The pace of this centralization is about to quicken as power struggles …