Western Australia's health coordinator of disaster management, Andrew Robertson, says hospitals in Perth have been placed on stand-by after the Bali bombings. ...
1,000 U.S. troops, backed by attack helicopters and tanks, swept into a village near the Syrian border Saturday in a new offensive U.S. Launches Offensive in...
Most Americans Upset with Bush’s Iraq Policies October 4, 2005 (Angus Reid Global Scan) – Few adults in the United States are satisfied with the way George...
Jing Soliman left his family in the Philippines for what sounded like a sure thing--a job as a warehouse worker at Camp Anaconda in Iraq. His new employer,...
TERRORISM and the consequent beefing up of powers for Australian law enforcement agencies make the need for a national human rights Bill more necessary than...
he 5th of February 2003 was a snow-blasted day in New York, the steam whirling out of the road covers, the US secret servicemen - helpfully wearing jackets...
At the end of the day, we've got to say, "Look, these people come from or think they come from a part of the world which clearly has many problems." I'm...
US-led forces have bombed eight bridges on the Euphrates River in western Iraq to stop insurgents using them, US military spokesperson Major General Rick Lynch...
Relatives and neighbours in mourning are convinced they were killed by government-linked Shia death squads they say are behind corpses that turn up nearly...
US generals, Iraqi journalists say civil strife is Iraq's greatest threat. Civil war, not terrorists, greatest danger in Iraq By Tom Regan | csmonitor.com ...
Prior to the arrival of U.S. forces, Iraqi women were free to go wherever they wish and wear whatever they like. The 1970 Iraqi constitution, gave Iraqi women...
The death toll from a huge south Asia earthquake rose to 18,000 in worst-hit Pakistan alone on Sunday, as rescuers dug out hundreds of dead children buried...
World responds to quake crisis From correspondents in Brussels AFP 10oct05 WORLD leaders expressed shock and sadness over the quake that devastated parts of...
The United States recently debated launching military strikes inside Syria against camps used by insurgents operating in neighboring Iraq, Newsweek reports. US...
According to Oil Ministry officials, contracts will be signed with foreign oil companies during the first nine months of 2006, opening the majority of Iraq’s...
..The occupiers have clearly been trying to brew polarisation along ethnic lines, by sending Shiite death squads into Sunni areas. This is not the first time...
Even among the strongest advocates in Washington of the war in Iraq there is a sense of alarm these days, with harsh criticism directed particularly at the...
Most of Iraq is in a state of anarchy, with insurgents controlling parts of Baghdad just half a mile from the so-called Green Zone, an Independent debate was...
US President George W. Bush has approved the creation of a National Clandestine Service within the Central Intelligence Agency to oversee all US espionage...
The lack of critical media coverage at the beginning of the Iraq War is widely acknowledged. But the media's failure to cover Iraqi voices of opposition is...
By Harold Pinter who yesterday won the Nobel Prize for Literature The Bombs by Harold Pinter from War courtesy of Faber and Faber There are no more words to be...
Supporting the insurgency in Iraq, Afghanistan or any country where Australian troops are deployed could carry a penalty of seven years' jail under the Prime...
The Australian government has been accused of rushing through anti-terror laws that allow police to use lethal force if they believe an attack is imminent. A...
The United States-led coalition's alleged practice of cutting off food and water to force Iraqi civilians to flee before attacks on insurgent strongholds is a...
Facing protests, Australia to relax anti-terror laws By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Published October 17, 2005 CANBERRA, Australia -- Australia's tough...
A US fighter jet bombed a crowd gathered around a burned Humvee on the edge of a provincial capital in western Iraq, killing 25 people, including 18 children,...
The New York-based Human Rights Watch is not convinced it can be a fair forum, and has issued an 18-page report detailing the tribunal's shortcomings. As...
MALCOLM Fraser last night strongly urged opposition to the Government's drastic new anti-terrorism measures, as John Howard rejected a backbench call for a...
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday refused to rule out the possibility that the United States could use military force against neighboring Syria...