Of 180 countries that Transparency International gauges on a 'corruption index,' only Somalia is worse than number 179: Afghanistan. Pratap Chatterjee describes how it works.
Abdel-Moneim Abdel-Maksoud, the Muslim Brotherhood's lawyer and MB military detainees' chief attorney, ascertained that the military tribunal detainees are paying a high price with their continued detention. However he expressed
The recent presidential election was a spectacle of fraud; the Afghan Army, despite years of training, may hardly exist; the ill-paid, ill-trained Afghan police are known to operate on the
To copy the practices of backward tribal groups in Afghanistan and Pakistan does not make sense in modern Indonesia nor does it make good Muslims, stresses Terry Lacey.
In recent weeks possible candidates to inherit power from current presidents found a good opportunity to advertise their faces. Said Bouteflika, the Algerian President’s brother and his special consultant will
A book published this week by a radical Jewish rabbi from the Israeli-occupied West Bank and endorsed by prominent religious right-wing figures suggests killing any non-Jew, including children and babies,
The Muslim Brotherhood students in Aswan organized an awareness rally hoping to encourage youths to support the Egyptian football team without narrow-mindedness and prejudice. The rally was initiated in an
A senior Counsel for the 9/11 Commission, John Farmer, has written a book exposing the degree to which our response to 9/11 was disorganized and outdated–geared to respond to an
Pursuant to new powers delegated to him by Congress, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has executed an order blocking the release of photos depicting the torture of detainees.