Knowing that your husband's corpse has been found and that you have become a widow may be some sort of relief. At least this is what would happen to the "half widows", the women that every day queue before police stations, military bases or morgues in Kashmir to find out if their husbands are dead. When their turn comes, they are ready to show the same picture or to tell the same story one more time. There are stories of men picked up from their homes by security forces, who in Kashmir have a free hand in putting down rebellions, of men who were going to work or who were travelling to another town, but all stories have the same ending: none of those men have come back home

Civil war doesn't prevent oil companies from doing business in the African country

Want to fight terrorism and Islamic fundamentalism online? Now you can

The US are building the 'Rule of Law Complex': another Green Zone in Baghdad

Colombia has registered the world record of victims of land mines

“The Hezb-i-Islami members have stopped brothers' killing and have chosen politics instead. Americans, like English and Russians in the past, will be off. Now we must join to build a system in tune with Islam and start a political commitment in order to guarantee a quiet living and peace to our Muslim citizens”. The jihad veteran Gulbuddin Hekmatyar announced his permanent abandonment of armed conflict in favour of political commitment

September 2nd will be a special day for hundreds of thousands of people. That day will be the deadline to apply for permissions or to leave the country the government of the United Emirates has established for all irregular foreign workers, mainly from the Far East

Former PM Benazir Bhutto negotiates with Musharraf. Journalist Ahmed Rashid explain the reasons behind her move

In Zimbabwe, artists too are victims of Mugabe's repression

The role of Tehran in the Afghan War, between truth and propaganda

Local stringers risk their lives in the shadow of foreign correspondents

The Church will pay 16,000 euros to a religion teacher, sacked for living with a man

Conquering the Dow Jones newspapers, including the Wall Street Journal

A ferocious assassin, responsible for the deaths of around 100 people, or an ex-child soldier who was a victim of circumstances? Now one of the rebel leaders in the Lord's Resistance Army, the case of Dominic Ongwen, wanted under an arrest warrant for war crimes and crimes against humanity, splits Uganda in two. At least 20,000 children like him have been abducted and condemned to join the rebel ranks

The infinite ways opened by African text messages