Full Coverage: Arms & military

27.09.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Sep 27 (OneWorld) - The fate of a U.S. Army medic who went AWOL rather than return for a second tour in Iraq is unclear today after he turned himself in to military authorities.

25.09.2006 A “serious problem” is looming in Sri Lanka’s northern Jaffna peninsula where escalating violence between the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and Government forces has cut food supplies and driven 60,000 people, nearly half of them children, into displaced persons camps, United Nations agencies have warned.

23.09.2006 NEW YORK, Sep 22 (OneWorld) - A nationwide civil disobedience campaign aiming to force the administration of President George W. Bush and the U.S. Congress to end the military occupation of Iraq is now in full swing.

18.09.2006 NEW YORK, Sep 18 (OneWorld) - Human rights and peace activists in many parts of the world took to the streets Sunday protesting the international community's failure to stop the ongoing bloody ethnic conflict in Sudan's Darfur region.

16.09.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Sep 16 (OneWorld) - Fresh allegations of brutality are being reported from inside the walls of Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, which was transferred from U.S. military to Iraqi government control on September 1st.

15.09.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Sep 15 (OneWorld) - Dozens of South Koreans took to the streets of Washington, DC Thursday in support of small farmers forced to relocate to make way for a massive new U.S. military base in their country. President George W. Bush was meeting with his South Korean counterpart just steps away in the White House at the time.

05.09.2006 After more than a week of fighting with the Tamil Tigers, the Sri Lankan Army Monday captured a strategically important rebel position. The Tigers retreated from Sampur without much resistance, following days of pounding from the military's Israeli-made Kfir jets.

01.09.2006 The Centre for Peace Studies (original acronym CMS) sent a letter to Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and President Stjepan Mesic, proposing Croatian official sponsorship of the UN Resolution on “Effective International Control over Exports, Imports and Transfer of Conventional Weapons”, recently submitted by the governments of Argentina, Australia, Costa Rica, Finland, Japan, Kenya and Great Britain.