A former Israeli soldier has come under fire for posting photos on Facebook of herself smiling beside bound and blindfolded Palestinian prisoners.

Abu Ghraib prison inmates rioted for a second straight day today to demand better conditions, setting fire to mattresses and seizing an assault rifle from a guard before authorities said the situation was brought under control.

THE US government asked an appeals court to halt the release of disturbing images of prisoner abuse, saying the photos could incite violence in Pakistan as well as in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Iraq has reopened the infamous Abu Ghraib prison – with promises that prisoners would be treated according to international standards in a bid to overcome the facility’s reputation as a centre for abuse.

The Iraqi government will reopen the notorious Abu Ghraib prison next month, under a new name, a senior justice official said today.

In city squares and living rooms, ballrooms and villages, the citizens of the world cheered the election of Barack Obama as US president, increasing hopes that America’s first black commander-in-chief would herald a more balanced, less confrontational America.

The Iraqi government is planning to open a museum inside the notorious Abu Ghraib prison to document crimes committed there during Saddam Hussein’s regime.

'Standard Operating Procedure' is not quite a documentary, though it’s based on the notorious photos that emerged from the Abu Ghrabi prison that exposed the torture of Iraqui prisoners by American soldiers.

WHEN US President George W Bush visited Ireland for the first time — four years ago this month — it was a significant event and was marked accordingly.

Former Iraqi deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz went on trial today accused of involvement in the murders of dozens of food suppliers.

US military interrogators assaulted Afghan detainees in 2003, using investigation methods they learned during self-defence training, according to Pentagon documents.

MARCH 17, 2003: US President George Bush gives Saddam Hussein 48-hour deadline to give up power.

NEWS coverage of the departure of Steve Staunton as manager of Ireland’s soccer team was quite a spectacle. RTÉ was scathing about the supposedly “shambolic” way in which things were handled at the end.

THE journalist who exposed United States military atrocities in Vietnam and Iraq launched a scathing attack on US President George W Bush and warned his intentions towards Iran would end in catastrophe.

THIS IS the sixth anniversary of the most dramatic terrorist atrocity of modern times — the spectacular attacks on New York’s Twin Towers, which left nearly 3,000 people dead.

A military court acquitted a US Army officer of failing to control lower-ranking soldiers who humiliated and abused detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq during the autumn of 2003.

A military court in Fort Meade, Maryland, today acquitted a US Army officer of failing to control US soldiers accused of abusing detainees at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison, but it found him guilty of disobeying an order.

The International Red Cross denounced Burma’s military government today, saying it committed abuses against civilians and detainees that caused “immense suffering”.

WHEN US forces invaded Iraq four years ago, I never expected to find myself three weeks later standing guard outside my house with an AK-47 assault rifle to ward off looters.

A man was sentenced to five years in prison today for conspiring to blow up a busy Manhattan underground station.

FBI agents have documented more than two dozen incidents of possible mistreatment at the Guantanamo Bay military base, including a detainee whose head was wrapped in duct tape for chanting verses from the Koran.

US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has been the square-jawed face of war, the man behind the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that he predicted were just the beginnings of a long, hard slog.

Iraq police have found this morning the tortured and blindfolded bodies of 13 Pakistani and Indian pilgrims and their Iraqi driver.

The European Union – which has been harshly critical of US prisoner abuse at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison and the detention centre for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba – today urged all nations to sign a global convention against torture and condemned the practice for any reason.

A military jury today sentenced an Army dog handler to 90 days hard labour and a reduction in rank for allowing his Belgian shepherd to bark within inches of an Iraqi detainee’s face at Abu Ghraib prison.

A military jury is continuing deliberations today in the court martial of a US Army dog handler accused of abusing detainees at Iraq’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison.

Close-up photographs of a bloody leg are part of the US government’s arsenal as it tries to convict an Army dog handler of abusing detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

The US will be grilled by the United Nations today over its compliance with the global ban on torture, for the first time since it launched its war on terror.

A MILITARY judge yesterday ordered an Army general who commanded the detention centre at Guantanamo Bay to testify at the court martial of a dog handler in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal.

The former US military intelligence chief at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison says he regrets not setting “appropriate controls” there, where detainees were bitten by dogs and assaulted and sexually humiliated by guards.

The court martial of a US Army dog handler charged with abusing detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq could help clarify who approved the harsh treatment that human rights advocates say amounted to torture.

The body of the only American among four Christian peace activists kidnapped late last year was found near a west Baghdad railway line with gunshots to his head and chest, Iraqi police said today.

Bombings and shootings yesterday killed at least 17 people around Iraq, while President Jalal Talabani issued a decree ordering the new parliament to hold its first session on March 19.

A suicide truck bomb today ripped through a line of vehicles waiting at a checkpoint in Fallujah and killed at least seven Iraqi civilians.

The US military says it will begin moving thousands of prisoners out of Abu Ghraib prison to a new jail near Baghdad’s airport within three months and hand the notorious facility over to Iraqi authorities as soon as possible.

THE US will close Abu Ghraib prison, probably within three months, and transfer some 4,500 prisoners to other jails in Iraq, a military spokesman said yesterday.

The American military said today that its new lockup near Baghdad airport to house security prisoners now held at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison should be ready within three months.

THE US lags dangerously behind al-Qaida and other enemies in getting out information in the digital media age and must update its old-fashioned methods, Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said yesterday.

NEW images of naked prisoners, some bloodied and lying on the floor, threatened to revive public anger over abuse by US guards at Abu Ghraib prison at a time when tensions with the West are already running high in the Middle East.

New images of naked prisoners, some bloodied and lying on the floor, threatened to revive public anger over abuse by US guards at Abu Ghraib prison at a time when tensions with the west are already running high in the Middle East.

An Australian network could be justified in airing graphic images of abuse at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison if they showed evidence of mistreatment that has not already been investigated, Prime Minister John Howard said today.

AN Australian television network yesterday aired previously unpublished video and photographs of what it said was the abuse of Iraqis in US military custody at Abu Ghraib prison in 2003.

An Australian TV network today broadcast photographs and video clips it said were previously unpublished images of the alleged abuse of Iraqis held in US military custody at Abu Ghraib prison.

A SUICIDE bomber detonated an explosive belt yesterday in a line of Iraqis waiting to receive government payments, killing eight people and wounding about 30, including children, police said.