Turkey’s Syrian Refugees: Defusing Metropolitan Tensions
What’s new? Intercommunal violence between host communities and Syrian refugees increased threefold in the second half of 2017 compared...
International Crisis Group 1
Jan 29, 2018
No Winners in Turkey’s New Offensive into Syria
A Turkish attack on the Kurdish “People’s Protection Units” (YPG), the Syrian affiliate of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), was long...
International Crisis Group 1
Jan 26, 2018
World Report 2018: Fighting for Rights Succeeds
Political leaders willing to fight for human rights principles showed that they could limit authoritarian populist agendas, Human Rights...
Human Rights Watch
Jan 18, 2018
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
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
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
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
Holocaust Museum Tries Again on Contentious Syria Study
One of the most ambitious studies conducted on Syria’s civil war and American options to mitigate it finally saw the light of day on...
New York Times 1
Dec 20, 2017
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Troubled by Persecution of Christians
Order of Saint Andrew the apostle, Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in America (05.12.2017) – http://bit.ly/2it8MpP – “Violence...
!A Human Rights Without Frontiers (HRWF) 1
Dec 6, 2017
Hom Christians Return to Rebuild Homes and Lives
Syrians who fled the city of Homs five years ago are slowly returning to rebuild their homes and lives. Much of Syria’s third largest...
!A Human Rights Without Frontiers (HRWF) 1
Dec 6, 2017
