List of Torture & War Crimes articles
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GettyImages-493343387 Senate Bans Transfer of Detainees Held at Guantanamo Bay
The Senate just banned the transfer of prisoner from Guantanamo Bay.
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The entrancer to Camp Justice at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base is seen on October 24, 2013, in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The tents at Camp Justice house media, lawyers, human rights observers, and military personnel and they are near the Guantanamo military commissions, the military tribunals created by the Military Commissions Act of 2006 for prosecuting detainees. AFP PHOTO/CHANTAL VALERY (Photo credit should read CHANTAL VALERY/AFP/Getty Images) Politics Slows White House Push to Close Gitmo
White House and Pentagon take a slow approach.
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IMG_2706 cropped This Tunisian Wants His Nation to Know Its Torturers
Tunisians have never received a public accounting for the crimes of the old dictatorship. Gilbert Naccache says that must change.
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GettyImages-475423156 (1) John McCain to James Clapper: Sorry for Saying You Wanted to Torture
Sen. McCain just walked back accusations that DNI James Clapper wanted to torture suspects.
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supplice_du_grand_knout I don’t believe a word of what torture advocates say — and neither should you
News sources are reporting that the long-awaited release of the summary of the Senate Intelligence Committee report on the CIA’s torture program is just days away. Thanks to anonymous sources, we already know some of what this summary will say: “enhanced” interrogation techniques (EITS) yielded little, if any significant intelligence, and the CIA misled the government and the public about both the severity of its methods and this program’s success.
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epa04854605 A visitor poses for a photograph in front of the last Cuban flag that was lowered from the Cuban Embassy in Washington on 03 January 1961 when relations between the United States and Cuba were severed, in their new embassy in Washington, DC, USA, 20 July 2015. The United States and Cuba restored full diplomatic relations on 20 July after more than five decades of frosty relations rooted in the Cold War. EPA/ANDREW HARNIK / POOL How to Build a Relationship With Havana
A strong partnership with Cuba is in America’s interest. Here are some ideas to forge bilateral ties.
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Camp_Delta,_Guantanamo_Bay,_Cuba-2 Avast! ‘Yachting’ magazine warns that Cuba isn’t yet a paradise for yachters
I don’t usually turn to Yachting for foreign policy advice, but I was struck by their caution against casually navigating your stylish new 60-foot Monte Carlo 6 cabin cruiser down to Cuba right now.
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GettyImages-158427634policecrop Who Killed Islam Salah al-Din Atitu?
The Cairo university student left home to take a final exam. The next day, he turned up in a city morgue, with marks of torture on his body, and police peddling a suspicious story about how he got there.
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Tribal gunmen loyal to the Huthi movement brandish their weapons on March 26, 2015 during a gathering in Sanaa to show support the Shiite Huthi militia and against the Saudi-led intervention in the country. Warplanes from a Saudi-led Arab coalition bombed Huthi rebels in support of Yemen's embattled president, as regional rival Iran warned the intervention was a "dangerous" move. AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED HUWAIS (Photo credit should read MOHAMMED HUWAIS/AFP/Getty Images) Longform’s Picks of the Week
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001 Mission Unstoppable: Why Is the CIA Running America’s Foreign Policy?
From drone strikes to prison torture, the CIA has been pulling the strings of U.S. foreign policy since 9/11. And if history is a guide, the agency will be calling the shots in the Middle East for years to come.
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129920313 Watchdogs Say U.S. Turned Blind Eye to Uzbek Abuse
Washington was more focused on securing military aid from Karimov for war in neighboring Afghanistan, human rights advocates say.
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465203181 cropped Whatever Happened to Bahrain’s Torture Reforms?
Despite promises of change, abuses by police and security services remain commonplace in the kingdom.
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460587212-960 The Women in the Middle of the War
Rampant sexual assault has unmade allegiances in Syria's civil war -- and it may well get worse no matter which side wins.
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US-CIA-BRENNAN CIA Director Paints a Gloomy Picture of the World, but a Rosy One of His Spy Agency
John Brennan said fighting terrorism today requires close relationships with foreign spies.
