By STEVEN CHASE
OTTAWA — The Harper government has always insisted it heard no warnings of torture risks facing Afghan detainees in 2006, but documents show that in the same year it was carefully …

By Errol Mendes
A courageous Canadian public servant and former diplomat in Afghanistan gave stunning testimony to a parliamentary committee on Wednesday, that while focused on the treatment of detainees transferred to Afghan authorities by …

By Hassan Abbas
ISPU Fellow
It is a globally recognized fact that a state’s police and law enforcement agencies play a critical role as the first line of defense against the threats of terrorism and insurgencies. …

US Strategy for Afghanistan: Achieving Peace and Stability in the Graveyard of Empires (2009-04-02)
By Anthony H. Cordesman
Publisher: Centre for Strategic and International Studies
In a statement …

President Barack Obama, left, smiles at his Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gul, right, during a ceremony at the Cankaya presidential palace in Ankara, Turkey, Monday, April 6, 2009. Obama paid tribute to the memory of modern …

This week, Stephen Harper and other NATO leaders met to consider a new agenda for the war in Afghanistan.
These leaders discussed plans that will mean the difference between success or failure in Afghanistan, and will …

By Faisal Kutty
More than 1.5 million men, women and children displaced. Four thousand executed. Numerous people tortured and raped. Hundreds of residential areas torched. Dozens of mosques, churches, hospitals and schools destroyed. These are the …

By Faisal Kutty
First Published 5/12/1999
“Our Muslim brothers are getting killed at the hands of the Serbs, but unfortunately Arab governments have shown little public support to them in order not to anger imperialist powers,” said …