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
Canadian ambassador praises ‘pleasing’ beach in Myanmar — where military accused of ethnic cleansing
A Canadian ambassador praised the beaches in Myanmar in a New Year's Day tweet, despite the country being engaged in what the United...
Amanda Connolly | Global News
Jan 2, 2018
Yukon first nations to launch Southern Tutchone language immersion program, for grownups
The Champagne and Aishihik First Nations has a long-term vision: to have citizens born and raised with Southern Tutchone as their mother...
CBC News
Dec 29, 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
Myanmar says U.S. sanctions against general based on 'unreliable accusations'
Myanmar “feels sad” over a U.S. decision to sanction a military general, a government spokesman said, after Washington linked the...
Reuters
Dec 27, 2017
OPINION: Modern Genocide: Our complicity in the Rohingya crisis
The Rwandan Genocide of 1994 claimed hundreds of thousands of lives in its ethnic persecution of the Tutsi minority by the Hutu majority....
Los Angeles Times
Dec 23, 2017
Pressed by lawmakers, US mulls more sanctions on Myanmar
WASHINGTON — The State Department said Friday the U.S. is considering further actions against those responsible for “ethnic cleansing” of...
Washington Post
Dec 22, 2017
Accounts of violence against Rohingya Muslims must be documented: Bob Rae
"Chilling and graphic" eyewitness accounts of violence against hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees must be documented so...
Michelle Zillio | The Globe and Mail
Dec 21, 2017
Trump Nominee Concedes Saudi Siege of Yemen Could Be Violating U.S. Law
By Dan de Luce U.S. President Donald Trump’s pick for the top legal advisor at the State Department has acknowledged that Saudi Arabia...
Foreign Policy
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
Opinion: In 2017, the world let another 'genocide' unfold
By Ishaan Tharoor The volume of utterly horrifying stories emerging from Myanmar can feel overwhelming. Since late August, more than...
Washington Post
Dec 18, 2017
The Plot to Bomb Garden City, Kansas
For all of Patrick Stein’s life, Southwest Kansas — “God’s country,” he called it — had looked basically the same. Golden fields, white...
Jessica Pressler | New York Magazine
Dec 12, 2017
