List of Torture & War Crimes articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Obama’s Plan to Bring Guantanamo Detainees to U.S. Could Drop Bombshell Into 2016 Race
The long-awaited blueprint for closing the military prison in Cuba and opening a ‘Gitmo North’ is a boon for GOP candidates but a pain for the Democrats.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How Assad’s Prisoners Die
A new report released by U.N. investigators documents atrocities that took place in Syrian government prisons.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 President of Ghana: Car Accidents Are More Dangerous Than Gitmo Detainees
On Tuesday, Ghana defended its choice to accept detainees from Guantánamo who were never charged with crimes.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Obama Says San Bernardino Attackers Like Mass Shooters: Hard to Stop
President Obama likened the search for lone-wolf terrorists to finding mass shooters.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A Plan to Close Guantánamo Is Coming, Just Not This Week
Another week has gone by, and the White House still has not rolled out its long-awaited plan to close the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 To Close Guantánamo, Obama Will Have to Test the Limits of Presidential Power
The president took office promising to abandon George W. Bush’s policy of using executive orders to sidestep Congress. Now he’s doing the same.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Senate Bans Transfer of Detainees Held at Guantanamo Bay
The Senate just banned the transfer of prisoner from Guantanamo Bay.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Politics Slows White House Push to Close Gitmo
White House and Pentagon take a slow approach.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 This Tunisian Wants His Nation to Know Its Torturers
Tunisians have never received a public accounting for the crimes of the old dictatorship. Gilbert Naccache says that must change.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 John McCain to James Clapper: Sorry for Saying You Wanted to Torture
Sen. McCain just walked back accusations that DNI James Clapper wanted to torture suspects.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 I don’t believe a word of what torture advocates say — and neither should you
News sources are reporting that the long-awaited release of the summary of the Senate Intelligence Committee report on the CIA’s torture program is just days away. Thanks to anonymous sources, we already know some of what this summary will say: “enhanced” interrogation techniques (EITS) yielded little, if any significant intelligence, and the CIA misled the government and the public about both the severity of its methods and this program’s success.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How to Build a Relationship With Havana
A strong partnership with Cuba is in America’s interest. Here are some ideas to forge bilateral ties.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Avast! ‘Yachting’ magazine warns that Cuba isn’t yet a paradise for yachters
I don’t usually turn to Yachting for foreign policy advice, but I was struck by their caution against casually navigating your stylish new 60-foot Monte Carlo 6 cabin cruiser down to Cuba right now.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Who Killed Islam Salah al-Din Atitu?
The Cairo university student left home to take a final exam. The next day, he turned up in a city morgue, with marks of torture on his body, and police peddling a suspicious story about how he got there.
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Tribal gunmen loyal to the Huthi movement brandish their weapons on March 26, 2015 during a gathering in Sanaa to show support the Shiite Huthi militia and against the Saudi-led intervention in the country. Warplanes from a Saudi-led Arab coalition bombed Huthi rebels in support of Yemen's embattled president, as regional rival Iran warned the intervention was a "dangerous" move. AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED HUWAIS (Photo credit should read MOHAMMED HUWAIS/AFP/Getty Images) Longform’s Picks of the Week
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