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Gaza has been ravaged by more than one month of non-stop Israeli bombardment that has levelled entire neighbourhoods and delivered death and destruction to the enclave's 2.3 million residents. Israel has dropped more than 25,000 tonnes of explosives on the besieged Gaza Strip, which is just 365sq km (141sq ...

Medan, Indonesia – A reported outbreak of COVID-19 at the United States’s Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp in Cuba is causing concern for the legal counsel and family members of detainees amid a lack of transparency about the status of those affected. “As I understand it, many detainees in both ...

India abstained in the UN General Assembly on a draft resolution calling for Russia to be held accountable for violations of international law by its invasion of Ukraine and requiring Moscow to pay reparations to Kyiv for damages, loss and injury resulting from the war. The draft ...

GUANTANAMO BAY — Guantanamo Bay’s oldest prisoner has been released to his home country, Pakistan, after almost two decades.Saif Ullah Paracha, 75, was arrested two years after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the US and accused of being an Al-Qaida sympathizer.Paracha was suspected of financing the group, but ...

Mexican authorities on Thursday detained 1,266 migrants in the last 24 hours, Mexico's National Migration Institute (INM) said. The migration agency said they were detained across operations carried out in 22 states of the country.  Those intercepted arrived from "different continents that were transiting irregularly," the INM said, identifying migrants ...

The first 20 detainees arrived at the United States military prison Camp X-Ray, located at a US naval base on the Caribbean island nation of Cuba, on January 11, 2002. The men, captured or turned in for ransom as part of the US "war on terror" that followed the attacks ...

I am on my 40th visit to the United States naval base at Guantanamo Bay. My clients have been locked up without charges or a trial for almost two decades now, somehow proof to the American people that the government is combating “Islamic extremism” – when in truth we ...

#Pakistan News hurriyet.com.tr / FOREIGN NEWSOctober 29, 2021 15:48twitterlinkedinflipboardEmailCopy LinkFontGuantanamo Bay prisoner Macid Khan, who went through the US's interrogation program after the September 11 attacks, told about his experiences for the first time. 'The more they talked, the more they tortured,' Khan said at the public hearing.Macid Khan, ...

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the September 11 attacks, along with four co-defendants appeared in a military courtroom at Guantanamo Bay this week for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began. The aging Mohammed, now 57 years old, his long beard tinted orange, smiled and gestured ...

#Pakistan News United States President Joe Biden turned the page on one legacy of 9/11 by ending the war in Afghanistan. But he has yet to do much about another: the Guantanamo Bay detention center. The White House says it intends to shutter the prison on the U.S. base ...