10 Conflicts to Watch in 2018
It’s not all about Donald Trump. That’s a statement more easily written than believed, given the U.S. president’s erratic comportment on...
International Crisis Group 1
Jan 2, 2018
The Lost Children of ISIS
In July 2017, video of a naked child found in the ruins of Mosul circulated widely online. The boy, pointing to an Iraqi flag on one of...
Foreign Policy
Jan 2, 2018
The Battle for Iran
Protest movements in the Middle East face enormous repressive hurdles and rarely have happy endings. Even when protesters “succeed” in...
Karim Sadjadpour | The Atlantic
Dec 31, 2017
Council Of Europe Leading The Legal Fight Against Daesh
On 27 January 2015, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), an assembly of parliamentarians from 47 European countries,...
Forbes
Dec 30, 2017
Why are hospitals targeted in Syria? ‘People lose hope’
Hari Sreenivasan: As the war in Syria raged over the past six years, hospitals and clinics were repeatedly bombed. According to the...
PBS
Dec 29, 2017
Call for Paper Proposals: Special Issue of Genocide Studies International (12.2)
Genocide & The Kurds The Kurdish-inhabited lands of the Middle East - spanning territories in Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey as well as...
Elisa von Joeden-Forgey
Dec 28, 2017
HRW REPORT Iraq: Yezidi Fighters Allegedly Execute Civilians
Investigate, Prosecute Armed Group Abuses (Beirut) – Yezidi fighters in Iraq allegedly forcibly disappeared and killed 52 civilians from...
Human Rights Watch
Dec 27, 2017
ANALYSIS: The Perils of a Post-ISIS Middle East
To defeat it, Washington has cultivated ties with groups at odds with each other. What happens when their common foe is gone? As 2017...
Joshua A. Geltzer | The Atlantic
Dec 27, 2017
Syria allows some patients to leave besieged area
BEIRUT — Syria’s government is allowing the evacuation of nearly 30 critically ill people from a besieged Damascus suburb, where hundreds...
Washington Post
Dec 27, 2017
How ISIS Changed the Yezidi Religion
Those who went into exile have creatively adapted their rituals. Those who stayed have been just as innovative. By Cathy Otten BEHZANE,...
The Atlantic
Dec 22, 2017
Genocide Survivors Celebrate Christmas in Iraq
When ISIS arose in 2014, the jihadist force swept across northern Iraq and carried out an ethnic cleansing campaign of Christian villages...
Geoffrey Johnston | The Whig
Dec 21, 2017
Written in Blood and Rust from a Syrian Prison: “Don’t Forget Us”
Mansour Omari, a Syrian journalist in his mid-thirties with wavy hair and sideburns, spent a year documenting the names of detainees who...
The New Yorker
Dec 20, 2017
