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New York-based Human Rights Watch on Thursday appealed to newly appointed Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to show "political courage" in ensuring the prosecution of soldiers found guilty of torturing an imam to death in southern Thailand.
On December 25, 2008, the Narathiwat provincial court ruled that Imam Yapa...
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Iraq and Turkey on Wednesday agreed to continue close cooperation to prevent Kurdish separatists from using Iraqi soil to launch attacks on Turkey, the Anka news agency reported.
"It is a pleasure for us that the solidarity between Turkey, Iraq and the United States will continue," Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip...
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Three Turkish soldiers and four Kurdish separatists were killed Wednesday in two separate clashes in eastern and south- eastern Turkey, Turkish media reported Thursday.
In the first clash in the Lice region of Diyarbakir province, two soldiers and four Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) rebels were killed and four soldiers wounded.
An...
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Iraq and Turkey agreed on Wednesday to set up a joint committee to combat Kurdish separatists in northern Iraq, Iraqi officials said.
Turkey has launched raids this year inside Iraqi territory to attack the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK), which it calls a terrorist organization.
Turkey and Iraq would take "strong measures"...
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Suspected separatists detonated two bombs in the violence-wracked province of Narathiwat on Tuesday, killing a woman and injuring 71 other people, police and hospital sources said.
The two separate bombs, planted in motorcycles, exploded outside a district office and a fruit market shortly after 11 am (0400 GMT) in Sukhirin...
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Turkish war planes backed by artillery on Thursday night conducted attacks on a large group of Kurdish separatists inside northern Iraq, the Turkish military announced on Friday.
A Turkish General Staff spokesman said the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) group were attempting to cross into Turkey where they planned to carry out attacks on...
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Turkish warplanes bombed suspected Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) positions in northern Iraq on Monday morning, three days after a PKK attack on a border post killed 15 Turkish soldiers.
According to a statement released by the Turkish General Staff, the warplanes bombed PKK positions in the mountainous Avasin region of northern...
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Suspected Muslim militants decapitated a village administrator Tuesday in Thailand's troubled deep South, police said.
Four men on motorcycles, believed to be separatist insurgents, chased Athaphon Konlom, 45, while he was driving his pickup on a back road in Sadawa village in Yarang district, 760 kilometres south of Bangkok, firing...
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Malaysia said Thursday its team of peacekeepers was to remain on troubled Mindanao island in the southern Philippines for another three months to monitor peace negotiations between Manila and rebel Muslim separatists.
The announcement comes in the wake of a recent outbreak of fighting between Philippine government forces and the Moro...
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Chinese Security forces detained 500 members of the ethnic Uighur minority in the Xinjiang region over the past two weeks, Uighur activists said Monday.
More than 100 people were arrested in the desert town of Kashgar alone, the in-exile Uyghur World Congress said. The organization called on the international community to lodge...
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Police arrested three Kashmiri separatist leaders in India-administered Kashmir as protestors defied a curfew in the region and clashed with security forces Monday, leaving 22 people injured, officials said.
Two senior leaders of the separatist Hurriyat Conference, hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani and moderate Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, were...
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Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said Monday the military's offensives against Muslim separatist rebels in the south, which have displaced more than 270,000 civilians, would help remove obstacles to peace talks with the guerrillas.
Arroyo stressed that her government has not declared an all-out war against the secessionist...
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Shouting "We want freedom," tens of thousands of protestors joined a rally called by Muslim separatist groups in Jammu and Kashmir state capital Srinagar on Friday.
At least 50,000 people from Srinagar and its outskirts gathered at the Idgah, a historic prayer ground in central Srinagar, which also has a cemetery where many...
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An exiled group of China's Uighur Muslims said Thursday that police have arrested more than 100 people following the August 4 attack in Kashgar city which killed 16 paramilitary officers.
The attack, which China said was carried out by two Uighur men, was among a string of deadly assaults carried out against government, police and...
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Olympic fever that has swept most of China seems to have limited influence in Lanzhou, considered the geometrical centre of China.
For many, the 3-million-inhabitant city capital of Gansu province is still a frontier town, and while the Games' influence is hard to miss in the city centre with flags on mass display in shops and cars,...
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A group of exiles from China's Muslim ethnic Uighur minority alleged Tuesday that police were planning to crack down on the Xinjiang region, where a series of attacks were carried out during the Olympic Games.
The Munich-based World Uyghur Congress said Xinjiang authorities plan to hold a 40-day "Strike Hard" campaign next...
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China on Monday said a 15-year-old girl who was treated in hospital for injuries was a suspect in a series of terrorist attacks on the weekend in its central Asian region of Xinjiang.
Paramilitary police shot dead eight other suspected terrorists while two others "blew themselves up" after the attacks in Xinjiang's Kuqa...
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Police suspected a terrorist plot was behind a
raid Monday against a police station in north-western China's Xinjiang
region in which two attackers killed 16 police and injured 16 others,
the official Xinhua news agency said.
Two men drove a garbage truck into a team of border patrol police
who were jogging outside their division...
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A top official from China's ethnically divided
far western region of Xinjiang on Friday played down the threat of
terrorism and said he was confident that security forces were capable
of preventing any attacks during the Olympics. 'To be frank,
I wish to say that at the moment in Xinjiang there are only a limited
number of...
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A bomb that blasted on Monday destroyed part of a packed
passenger train, killing eight people and wounding seventy others near Colombo.
Military spokesman Brig. Udaya Nanayakkara made Tamil Tiger rebels responsible for
the bombing. This attack is the second in four days targeting civilians.
Another bomb was dropped last Friday...
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 At least 19 people, including a police officer, were killed in
escalating violence between Tamil separatists and the army in northern
Sri Lanka, the military officials reported Sunday.
Eight rebels were killed and 12 injured in attacks by government
soldiers on Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) positions on the
Jaffna...
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Voters in Canada's French-speaking province of Quebec elected a federalist provincial government Monday, handing the Liberal Party of Quebec a slim majority.
Premier Jean Charest's Liberals, who are not connected to the federal Liberal Party, won 66 seats in the 125-seat provincial legislature, with 42 per cent of the popular...
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Suspected Basque separatists Wednesday shot dead an entrepreneur in Azpeitia in Spain's Basque region, police said.
The victim was identified as Ignacio Uria Mendizabal, 70, one of the owners of a company participating in the construction of a high- speed rail network which had come under threats from the militant Basque separatist...
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Suspected Basque separatists Wednesday shot dead an entrepreneur in Azpeitia in Spain's Basque region, police said.
The victim was identified as Ignacio Uria Mendizabal, 71, one of the heads of a company participating in the construction of a high- speed rail network which had come under threats from the militant Basque separatist...
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When Txeroki, the suspected military leader of the militant Basque separatist group ETA, was captured in France on Monday, Spanish politicians hailed the arrest as yet another step towards the unavoidable defeat of separatist violence.
Yet while ETA has been seriously weakened by constant police crackdowns, it has always found new...
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At least five people were killed in the explosion of a mini-van on Thursday in the Russian city of Vladikavkaz, just across the border from South Ossetia where Russia fought a war with Georgia in August, news agencies reported
Another five people were injured in the blast outside the entrance to a movie theater and market on...
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French police Tuesday detained six suspected Basque separatists, Spanish media quoted Spanish police sources as saying.
The arrests were linked to an investigation into bars suspected of financing violent separatists in France.
The arrests were made in different locations in the French Basque region, according to Askatasuna, a...
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During her 33 years as queen, Sofia of Spain had been known for her gentleness and discretion.
But at the time of her 70th birthday, the Greek-born wife of King Juan Carlos stunned the country with a sudden outburst of outspokenness, reigniting a debate about the role of the monarchy.
The queen opened up to journalist Pilar Urbano,...
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The Turkish military on Friday said 35 Kurdish separatists had been killed in clashes this week on Mount Cudi in the southeastern province of Sirnak.
A General Staff spokesman told reporters that the number of Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) deaths was learnt through intercepted PKK communications.
Recent weeks have seen an increase...
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Martti Ahtisaari, Finnish ex-president and veteran peace broker, has been awarded this year's Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced in Oslo on Friday.
Ahtisaari, 71, was cited "for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts," the...
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Spanish police detained four people overnight on charges of staging acts of street violence in support of the militant Basque separatist group ETA, officials said Wednesday.
The arrests were made in Pamplona in the northern Navarre region, which borders on the Basque Country.
The detainees were believed to have links with the...
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French police have detained at least 10 people linked to two Basque separatist groups, including Batasuna, widely regarded as the political wing of the militant Basque separatist group ETA, French radio reported Wednesday.
The arrests were made overnight in several cities in the Basque region of southern France.
The detainees...
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Spain's National Court has handed 21 members of a Basque separatist organization prison terms ranging from 8 to 10 years for links with the militant Basque separatist group ETA, the court said Wednesday.
The court also ordered the dissolution of Gestoras Pro Amnistia, which is seeking an amnesty for more than 500 ETA activists...
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Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko said Friday that Russia was doing its utmost to ensure a stable supply of oil to Europe despite a diplomatic fallout in the aftermath of the Georgia conflict.
Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko said maintaning credibility as a "reliable" oil supplier was the priority, news agency Interfax...
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Residents in the central Georgian city Gori expressed growing despair on Monday as Russian troops appeared to entrench their positions at check-points in the region over the weekend rather than preparing the promised pull-out of troops.
President Dmitry Medvedev pledged to "begin a withdrawal of the military contingent" from...
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Friday Russia would take action to protect its citizens under siege by Georgian troops driving to re-assert control over the breakaway region of South Ossetia.
Medvedev did not specify what action Moscow might take.
"We will not let the deaths of our citizens go unpunished, the guilty...
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South Ossetia has appealed to its ally Russia for military aid in violent fighting with Georgian troops who surrounded the capital Friday.
"Heavy fighting in and around Tskhinvali is ongoing," the South Ossetian Press and Information Committee reported. "The people of South Ossetia request the president and the...
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Wednesday night's outbreak of fighting in the breakaway Georgian province of South Ossetia is the fault of Russia, not Georgia, the government in Tbilisi said Thursday in response to Russian statements.
"All responsibility for the recent development of events falls on (Russia): it is from Russian territory, through the Roki...
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Police experts on Monday were searching for
clues as to who was behind a bomb attack in Istanbul Sunday night that
left 16 people dead and 154 injured, the Anadolu news agency reported.
A first small bomb which had been placed in a rubbish bin on a
crowded pedestrian street in the suburb of Gungoren on the European
side of Istanbul...
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 Kosovo’s parliament voted 109-0
yesterday in favor of breaking up connections with Serbia, presenting a declaration of
independence that caused the meeting of the emergency Security Council.
Serbia
expressed its strong opposition to the decision of the newly-formed European
state, and it was supported by Russia,
which...
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 Italy’s former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is considering a return to power after Premier Romano Prodi resigned following the collapse of his coalition government.Berlusconi, a media tycoon and seasoned politician, is seeking a third term and has repeatedly called for early elections.With opinion polls on his side, Berlusconi said...
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 European Union leaders agreed Friday to deploy a civilian mission to
Kosovo, in spite of uncertainty over its legal basis and disagreement
over how to react when the Serbian province declares independence.
Prime ministers and heads of state from the 27-member bloc also
reached out to Serbia, saying EU membership talks with the...
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 Suspected terrorists with the Basque underground organization ETA
killed a Spanish policeman and seriously wounded another in an attack
in south-west France, Spanish Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba
announced on Saturday.
The two officials of the paramilitary Guardia Civil who were
members in a joint Franco-Spanish...
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 Northern Turkey is again the scene of clashes between PKK separatists and the Turkish army, four militants and one soldier being killed in the past 24 hours, media reported Tuesday.Kurdish militants attacked a group of soldiers near a military base in the northern province of Gumushane Tuesday morning, killing one and injuring...
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 After ETA announced the end of a 14-months-old ceasefire, both
Spanish and French authorities were put on high alert and the consequences
emerged in France
on Thursday, three ETA members being arrested.
A woman and two men were detained in the Bagnères-de-Bigorre commune
in southwestern France
near the Spanish border, as they...
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 After urging Ankara to end it military operation in northern Iraq as soon as possible, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates got an answer from his Turkish counterpart, although it may not be the one he had hoped for.Gates’ counterpart, Turkish Defense Minister Vecdi Gonul said that Turkey’s assault on Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)...
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Three people were killed and 70 injured when crowds led by Muslim separatist activists defied a curfew and clashed with security forces in India-administered Kashmir on Monday, officials said.
Police earlier arrested three prominent separatist leaders, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umer Farooq and Yasin Malik, to foil a major...
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Russia's army on Wednesday continued its occupation of two enclaves in Georgia as Kremlin officials claimed they would accelerate what they said was an already in-progress withdrawal.
President Dmitry Medvedev promised his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy that all but a 500-strong contingent of peace keepers would leave Georgian...
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 A terrorist attack is the presumed cause of the derailment
of a train that was travelling from Moscow to St. Petersburg that caused the
injury of 60 people. The incident took place on Monday, at 9:38 p.m. (local
hour) at the 179th kilometer from Moscow of the Oktyabrskaya Railway
near Malaya Vishera, according to Viktor Beltsov, the...
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