Afrasianet - Ahead of a major speech by President Obama involving US counterterrorism operations, the White House has indicated that it will include a plan to renew prisoner transfers out of Guantanamo Bay, with the ultimate goal of shuttering the prison.
Just as the Pentagon is requesting an additional $450 million in funding to keep the detention center running, the administration s...
US government admits to killing four American citizens with drones
Afrasianet - United States Attorney General Eric Holder has informed Congress that four American citizens have been killed in Yemen and Pakistan by US drones since 2009.
It has been widely reported but rarely acknowledged in Washington that three US citizens — Samir Khan, Anwar al-Awlaki and his teenage son, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki — were executed in Yemen by missile-equipped drones...
Sinai kidnappers free Egypt security personnel
Afrasianet - Kidnappers on Wednesday freed Egyptian police and soldiers seized in Sinai, as President Mohamed Morsi vowed to bring the perpetrators to justice and appealed to residents of the lawless peninsula to disarm.
The conscripts, seized at gunpoint last week as they were returning from a leave of absence, arrived in Cairo following a joint army and police sweep of Sinai that...
Tunisia’s Ansar al-Sharia spokesman released
Afrasianet - Ansar al-Sharia spokesman Seifeddine Rais, detained in the Tunisian city of Kairouan at the weekend as police enforced a government ban on its annual congress, was released on bail on Wednesday, the Salafist group said.
"God be praised, our brother Seifeddine Rais has been freed," the group said on its Facebook page.
Lawyer Anouar Ouled Ali said his client still f...
Salafists call for protest in Tunisia’s Kairouan
Afrasianet - Radical Salafist group Ansar al-Sharia, which Tunisian authorities have branded a terrorist organisation, has called for a protest in the city of Kairouan on Friday against the arrest of its spokesman.
"Call to all Muslims to a protest in support of Ansar al-Sharia's spokesman Seifeddine Rais, in front of the headquarters of ruling Islamist party Ennahda near Bab Jalla...
Iran's Rafsanjani barred from presidential race
Afrasianet - Iran's moderate ex-president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and a former government official Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie have been barred from contesting the June 14 presidential election, the interior ministry said Tuesday.
Eight candidates won approval to stand -- five conservatives close to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as well as two moderate conservatives and a ref...
Syria submits five names for possible peace talks
Afrasianet - The Syrian regime has put forward a list of five officials including Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi as potential negotiators in talks with the opposition, European diplomatic sources said on Tuesday.
The list, provided to Moscow in early March, also includes deputy prime minister Qadri Jamil and three other officials, the sources said.
The United States and Russia a...
‘Guantanamo guards shot my client 5 times for no reason’
Afrasianet - Over 100 Guantanamo prisoners continue their hunger strike in protest against unlawful – and as it turns out, violent – detention. RT met with the lawyer of inmate Moath al Alawi, who has been shot by guards, denied medical treatment and force-fed.
A reported 103 of Guantanamo’s 166 prisoners are participating in the hunger strike, which has lasted for more than 100...
Afrasianet - Ahead of a major speech by President Obama involving US counterterrorism operations, the White House has indicated that it will include a plan to renew prisoner transfers out of Guantanamo Bay, with ...
Afrasianet - United States Attorney General Eric Holder has informed Congress that four American citizens have been killed in Yemen and Pakistan by US drones since 2009.
It has been widely reported but rarely ...
Afrasianet - Kidnappers on Wednesday freed Egyptian police and soldiers seized in Sinai, as President Mohamed Morsi vowed to bring the perpetrators to justice and appealed to residents of the lawless peninsula to ...
Afrasianet - Ansar al-Sharia spokesman Seifeddine Rais, detained in the Tunisian city of Kairouan at the weekend as police enforced a government ban on its annual congress, was released on bail on Wednesday, the ...
Afrasianet - Radical Salafist group Ansar al-Sharia, which Tunisian authorities have branded a terrorist organisation, has called for a protest in the city of Kairouan on Friday against the arrest of its spokesman.
"Call ...
Afrasianet - Iran's moderate ex-president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and a former government official Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie have been barred from contesting the June 14 presidential election, the interior ministry ...
Afrasianet - The Syrian regime has put forward a list of five officials including Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi as potential negotiators in talks with the opposition, European diplomatic sources said on Tuesday.
The ...
Afrasianet - Over 100 Guantanamo prisoners continue their hunger strike in protest against unlawful – and as it turns out, violent – detention. RT met with the lawyer of inmate Moath al Alawi, who has been shot ...
Afrasianet - A US Senate committee had passed a bill that would allow, if signed for the Obama administration to supply arms to Syrian opposition — a move that could threaten the entire region if these weapons ...
Afrasianet - President Barack Obama has allegedly decided to hand over part of the CIA’s drone program to the Pentagon. The administration plans to gradually shift responsibility in stages, thereby providing greater ...
Afrasianet - One of the methods used to extract information from Muslim inmates in Guantanamo was to apply sexual interrogation techniques, Terry Holdbrooks, former guard at the camp has told RT.
Such a degradation ...
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