At a closed briefing in 2003, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee raised no objection to a C.I.A. plan to destroy videotapes of brutal interrogations, according to secret documents released Monday.
The senator, Pat Roberts, Republican of Kansas, also rejected a proposal to have his committee conduct its own assessment of the agency’s harsh interrogation methods, which included wall-slamming and waterboarding, the documents say.



At dawn on Tuesday, Israeli occupation forces escalated their invasions across multiple areas of the occupied...
Israel’s security cabinet has signed off on plans to formalise 19 illegal settlements across the occupied...





























