The Arab League has said it will send more monitors to Syria in an effort to ensure the government is living up to its commitments to end violence against protesters. Meanwhile, protesters say the monitors who are already there are being misled and are ineffective.
The Arab League gave the Syrian government 24 hours to admit international monitors or face serious economic sanctions on Thursday. After the deadline passed at 6:00AM Eastern time, the league decided meet on Saturday to discuss how to proceed. At least 51 people are said to have been killed in violence across the country on […]
We continue our conversation on President Obama’s announcement tonight on his plan for withdrawing US troops from Afghanistan, including how many troops will be returning home and when, and whether or not this will signal the end of the Afghanistan War. The BBC’s Paul Wood is in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, and has been speaking with […]
BBC correspondent Paul Wood visited children in Afghanistan who were tricked into becoming suicide bombers, before they were arrested by coalition authorities. Children as young as eight say that they were told that they wouldn’t die if they carried out an attack. We hear their voices.