Winter still clings to the ancient cultivated hillsides of the northern Syrian province of Idlib. Nights are chillingly cold; mornings alternate between mist and feeble sun. Under the gnarled olive trees, the soil is naked and neatly raked. 　　Tens of thousands of trees in rows follow the contours of the... More

　　As the 16 civilian victims of a US sergeant's shooting spree in southern Afghanistan are buried, new details of the horrific episode are emerging. Nine of those killed were children. Three were women. 　　The residents of Panjwai district in the volatile Kandahar province said they showed no resistance during the... More

　　More than 8,000 people have been killed in Syria since the uprising began a year ago, and many more injured. Fearing ill-treatment at official hospitals, demonstrators have sought help at underground clinics. One Damascus surgeon tells his story. 　　I was at home, looking out of the window, watching a demonstration,... More

　　People detained by the Syrian authorities are being systematically and routinely tortured, an Amnesty International report alleges. 　　The rights group says officials are using techniques including suspending and then beating detainees with fists and rifle butts. 　　Many of those from whom Amnesty gathered testimony said children were among the torture... More

　　The past year saw a sharp rise in the number of civilians killed in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a human rights group said. 　　An annual report from the Jerusalem-based B'Tselem showed that in 2011 Israeli forces killed a total of 105 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, of whom 37 were confirmed... More

　　The U.S. Army sergeant accused of killing 17 Afghan civilians is believed to have carried out the rampage in two stages, returning to base after the first shootings and then going out to kill again, a U.S. official said on Saturday. 　　The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, did not... More

　　A one-state solution in Palestine/Israel is a subject being increasingly discussed and debated. One way in which the conversation has emerged is through an analysis of the current situation as a de facto one state, a regime which privileges Jews above Palestinians (the latter being granted or denied different rights... More

　　Veteran activists of the current Syrian uprising share their tales of struggle and revolution. 　　The Syrian revolution began gradually; a protest in Damascus, the detention of teenage anti-regime graffitists in Dar’aa, and the subsequent mass rally for their release that led to a strong military reaction happened over just a... More

　　On April 9, 1948, scores of Palestinian civilians were massacred at the village of Deir Yassin through cooperative efforts of Yishuv forces like the Irgun, Lehi and the Haganah. 　　The Zionist narrative on the events of 1948 and the Nakba - the Arabic word for the depopulation of Palestine -... More

　　In yet another unwarranted act of aggression, South Sudan and its proxy forces again heinously attacked and occupied Heglig on April 10th, an area that is indisputably a Sudanese territory. 　　The assault comes in the midst of strenuous peace-building efforts exerted by the African Union High-level Implementation Panel (AUHIP) whose... More

　　The events in the New Clock Square on April 18, 2011, evoke both bitter and sweet memories for the thousands who participated in the largest demonstration in the city center since the country-wide uprising against President Bashar al-Assad had started. 　　"It was a day where we thought the Syrian regime... More

　　Khader Adnan recounts his 66-day fast in Israeli jail that has made him a symbol of Palestinian resistance. 　　When Palestinian hunger striker Khader Adnan called his mother at 11:30pm on Tuesday night, she burst into tears. "He told me, 'Mother I am on my way home,'" she said. “For the... More

　　At least 1,550 Palestinians in Israeli jails are now taking part in a mass hunger strike, Israel's Prison Service said on Wednesday, with two of them marking their 64th day without food. 　　IPS spokeswoman Sivan Weizman told AFP another 100 prisoners had begun refusing food in the past two days,... More