Full Coverage: Arms & military

28.11.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 28 (OneWorld) - Rural communities are experiencing a disproportionate amount of U.S. military deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a new study by the Carsey Institute, a think tank at the University of New Hampshire.

28.11.2006 Exiled political leaders from Burma have expressed their anguish at the Indian government’s policy of appeasing the Burmese military junta that has internationally been seen as committing gross human rights violations and suppressing its own people.

21.11.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 21 (OneWorld) - A New York-based non-profit stepped up a petition drive Tuesday aimed at pushing the Bush administration to engage the international community to bring peace to Iraq.

21.11.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 21 (OneWorld) - A U.S. serviceman who went AWOL after refusing to return for a second tour of duty in Iraq is getting a court hearing Tuesday.

19.11.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 18 (OneWorld) - Four of the U.S. soldiers on trial for the murder of a disabled Iraqi man have reached plea bargains with military prosecutors, drastically minimizing the time they will spend in jail.

15.11.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 15 (OneWorld) - Human rights lawyers were joined by two winners of the Nobel Peace prize in filing charges in Germany Tuesday, accusing outgoing U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld of committing war crimes in Iraq and the U.S.-controlled Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba.

09.11.2006 WASHINGTON, Nov 9 (IPS) - The abrupt replacement of Pentagon chief, Donald Rumsfeld, by former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director Robert Gates, combined with the Democratic sweep in Tuesday's mid-term elections, appears to signal major changes in United States foreign policy, particularly in the Middle East.

08.11.2006 Ayesha Kidwai, a member of the India Social Forum's organising committee, writes about the opening plenary of the ISF which has an all-women panel. Kidwai refutes the much-thought belief that women activists only speak for and to women and are limited to women issues. She says that liberalisation, privatisation, and globalisation are issues also related to and impacting women.