MEXICO CITY - Amnesty International said that Mexican soldiers have carried out torture and forced disappearances while fighting drug cartels. The group said one case involves 25 Tijuana police officers detained on corruption allegations. The office
The man who led UK troops into Iraq in 2003 says he was told 10 months earlier that it was a matter of when not if the US would pursue military action.Air Chief Marshall Sir Brian Burridge said General Tommy Franks, Commander of US forces, told hi
SHARIFF AGUAK, Philippines - The Philippine military said Monday over 3,000 armed followers of a powerful Muslim clan whose provincial stronghold was placed under martial law after a massacre remain a threat. The number would not be less than 3,00
WANA, Pakistan - Up to 40 militants have attacked an army checkpoint, killing one soldier, a security official said on Saturday, after suicide bombers and gunmen killed dozens at a mosque near Pakistan's military headquarters. Pakistan's army, whic
GUATEMALA CITY - A retired army officer has been convicted and sentenced to 53 years in prison in the forced disappearance of civilians during Guatemala's civil war. The convictions for the 1981 abductions at the village of El Jute were the first ev
BANGUI - The army in the Central African Republic vowed Friday to recapture the key north central town of Ndele after a rebel attack in which a military source said about 15 people died. Since yesterday, reinforcements have been arriving by land a
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistani officials have arrested a retired Pakistani army major for his suspected role in an alleged plot that was hatched in the U.S. to assassinate the creator of controversial Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad,
LONDON, Nov 21 - Britain should withdraw its army from Germany so it can take on “expeditionary roles elsewhere under a strategic Nato overhaul, the British opposition defence spokesman said in a newspaper interview on Saturday.Liam Fox told the Dai
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