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Two decades after the attacks of September 11, 2001, and the arrival of the first terrorism suspects at Guantánamo Bay on January 11, 2002, many Americans may not recall details of the systematic abuses carried out by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and US military against hundreds if not thousands of Muslims detained as part of what President George W. Bush swiftly declared a global “War on Terror.” Yet for many people in countries outside the United States, memories of...

Sometimes you just have to scratch your head with this administration. While the Biden administration’s own director of national intelligence has assessed that “ISIS, al-Qa’ida, and Iran and its militant allies continue to plot terrorist attacks against U.S. persons and interests,” the administration is calling for the terrorist-detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to be closed.

Sometimes you just have to scratch your head with this administration.

The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee recently held a hearing on closing the Guantanamo Bay detention center. Cully Stimson, deputy director of Heritage’s Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, testified at the Dec. 7 hearing.Stimson formerly served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs under the George W. Bush administration and coordinated the Pentagon’s global detention policy and operations, including at Guantanamo Bay.

Tigrayan forces summarily executed dozens of civilians in two towns they controlled in Ethiopia‘s northern Amhara region between August 31 and

Tigrayan forces summarily executed dozens of civilians in two towns they controlled in Ethiopia’s northern Amhara region between August 31 and September 9, 2021, Human Rights Watch said today. These killings highlight the urgent need for the United Nations Human Rights Council to establish an international investigative mechanism into abuses by all warring parties in the expanded Tigray conflict.

Tigrayan forces summarily executed dozens of civilians in two towns they controlled in Ethiopia’s northern Amhara region between August 31 and September 9, 2021, Human Rights Watch said today. These killings highlight the urgent need for the United Nations Human Rights Council to establish an international investigative mechanism into abuses by all warring parties in the expanded Tigray conflict.

It's reasonable to ask the communist rebels if they have punished those behind the killings. Quo vadis?

Malian authorities should investigate a spate of alleged summary executions, enforced disappearances, and incommunicado detentions by government security forces, Human Rights Watch said today. The

Malian authorities should investigate a spate of alleged summary executions, enforced disappearances, and incommunicado detentions by government