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Ashish Kumar Sen

Ashish Kumar Sen

asen@washingtontimes.com

Ashish Kumar Sen is a reporter covering foreign policy and international developments for The Washington Times.
Prior to joining The Times, Mr. Sen worked for publications in Asia and the Middle East. His work has appeared in a number of publications and online news sites including the British Broadcasting Corp., Asia Times Online and Outlook magazine.

Articles by Ashish Kumar Sen

Rohrabacher presses State on future of Iranian exiles

The Iraqi government is using the State Department's terrorist designation of a group of Iranian dissidents as an excuse to crack down on the unarmed exiles in their camp north of Baghdad, a top Republican lawmaker said Tuesday.

December 6, 2011
Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem watches videos of corpses during a news conference Monday to bolster the Syrian regime's contention that armed gangs are behind the country's violence. A U.N. probe condemns the regime for violence against protesters.

Syrian forces abused, killed kids, report says

Children were raped, tortured, illegally detained and shot dead in a crackdown by Syria's military and security forces on protesters for democracy, a U.N. investigation reported Monday.

November 28, 2011
** FILE ** The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Bashir on charges of war crimes and genocide in Darfur. He has denied the charges. (Associated Press)

New rebel alliance undermines Darfur peace effort

Sudanese rebels in Darfur have formed an alliance with other armed groups to overthrow the government in the capital, Khartoum, in a move that links separate conflicts in the North African nation and undermines ongoing

November 24, 2011
Husain Haqqani (J.M. Eddins/The Washington Times)

Pakistani ambassador warns against U.S. aid cutoff

Pakistan's ambassador to the United States on Wednesday warned against cutting off U.S. aid to his country, after a Republican presidential candidate called for an end to foreign assistance to the South Asian country where intelligence officials are suspected of supporting terrorists.

November 16, 2011
** FILE ** President Obama (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Afghans: Obama wasting time talking to terrorists

A group of senior Afghan lawmakers says the Obama administration is wasting its time in trying to make peace with the Haqqani Network, a Pakistan-based terrorist group U.S. officials have accused of killing Americans and attacking the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan.

November 5, 2011
"We want to fight, talk and build all at the same time,"Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday about terrorists in Pakistan and Afghanistan. (T.J. KIRKPATRICK / THE WASHINGTON TIMES)

Clinton defends U.S. efforts to talk with terrorists

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday defended the Obama administrations efforts to talk to the Taliban and an al Qaeda-linked terrorist network, but skeptical members of Congress said this approach cannot work without support from Pakistan.

October 27, 2011
THE END IS NIGH: This image taken from Libyan TV purports to show Moammar Gadhafi alive and surrounded by revolutionary fighters on Thursday. It shows a wounded Col. Gadhafi with a blood-soaked shirt and bloodied face. (Associated Press)

Gadhafi caught, killed in Libya

Moammar Gadhafi, who brutally ruled Libya for more than four decades, died of gunshot wounds after he was captured in his hometown of Sirte on Thursday, but his death leaves many challenges for the revolutionary council now ruling the oil-rich North African nation.

October 20, 2011
Prisoners walk out of Insein Prison in Yangon, Myanmar, on Wednesday. The government has begun releasing prisoners but has held back on freeing some prominent political figures. (Associated Press)

U.S. wants all Myanmar political prisoners freed

Myanmar's military-backed government must release all political prisoners and stop violating the rights of ethnic minorities before it can expect normal relations with the United States, a top Obama administration official said Monday.

October 17, 2011

Virginian held on charges of surveilling foes of Assad

The Justice Department has charged a Syrian-born U.S. citizen with spying on Americans demonstrating against Syria's Assad regime and passing that information on to Syria intelligence officers to intimidate the protesters.

October 12, 2011

Security forces abduct thousands in Syria

Scores of youths have been abducted from cities across Syria in what residents say is a campaign by the state's security services to stoke sectarian tensions and break the back of a months-long protest against President Bashar Assad's regime.

October 11, 2011
T.J. KIRKPATRICK / THE WASHINGTON TIMES "Today we are a failed state," says Nzanga Mobutu, who wants to correct the ills if elected as president of Congo, where his father ruled for 32 years.

Son of Congo’s former dictator a candidate for president

The son of Congo's former dictator vowed to use military force to crack down on Congolese soldiers and rebels who have kept up a years-long campaign of rape against civilians in the Central African nation, saying he will hold the guilty accountable if he is elected president.

October 6, 2011

U.N. veto called ‘green light’ for Assad

Syrians seeking the ouster of President Bashar Assad's regime and European officials on Wednesday chided Russia and China for vetoing a U.N. resolution aimed at pressuring the embattled autocracy.

October 5, 2011

Government ties killing of ex-president to Pakistan

The assassination of Afghanistan's former president was plotted in Pakistan, the government said Sunday, increasing pressure on its neighbor that already is facing heat from the Obama administration about its ties to recent terrorist attacks.

October 2, 2011