BAGHDAD - Welcomed at first after the US-led invasion in 2003, most NGOs have run into skepticism and mistrust. Few remain to help. Hundreds of local and foreign NGOs became active in Iraq since the US-led invasion in 2003, after decades of restrictions under the...
In the name of "global war on terror," the US government is waging war on non-governmental organization by applying "shortsighted, undemocratic policies" that are "constraining the critical activities of the charitable and philanthropic...
Updated at 9:29 p.m. EDT, July 24, 2008A female suicide bomber ended this week's relative peace when she attacked an Awakening Council patrol in Baquba today. Overall, at least 20 Iraqis were killed and 39 more were wounded in the latest attacks. No Coalition deaths...
As the 63rd anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki approaches, the world continues to face a litany of nuclear concerns. There is the failure to safeguard all the nuclear material lying loose around the globe. And proponents of nuclear power have...
A one-line communiqué from the office of the Serbian president flashed across the world on Monday: Radovan Karadzic, wartime leader of the Serbs in Bosnia, was arrested in Belgrade. He is wanted by the Hague Inquisition for allegedly masterminding the Bosnian...
In a few short weeks the party Beijing has been preparing for the last eight years will finally kick off, and the government's disconnect with the people attending the party is growing ever deeper. Around Beijing, the word is that these are the "No-Fun Olympics" and...
Barack Obama and John McCain are currently engaged in a bidding war to see who can promise more troops in Afghanistan. In an op-ed published by the New York Times last week, Obama wrote that if he is elected president he will provide "at least two additional...
Are 400,000 Terrorists Trying to Attack the United States? I've always wondered why the list is secret. If the intent is to make us safer, then why not publicize the list so that the bad guys know that they will be hassled at the airport? They will not show up with...
Civil liberties advocates have lost no time in asking a federal court to stop the government from conducting surveillance under the new wiretapping law passed by Congress and signed by President George W. Bush last week. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and a...
Iran's provocative missile tests 10 days ago again fueled the debate on the likelihood of aerial strikes against Iran. Since last week's thaw, however, an attack on Iran by the end of President Bush's tenure no longer appears in the offing. Moreover, the narrow,...
