practically has discarded all the previous efforts exerted, to achieve a just peace and a genuine democratic transformation

More than two dozen men and women have been stopped by the F.B.I. and charged before they could fly away Now, to the distress of Somali elders, more than a dozen others have left or have tried to leave to join It advises travelers on what to tell suspicious officials in Turkey, the usual transit country. on social media and has been charged in absentia with supporting ISIS, his story is easier to follow than and helped translate for leaders of the Shabab.

that in August of 2014 Daesh killed hundreds of Yezidi men and older women in the town of Kocho and trapped In the past two and a half years, the United States has provided more than 600 million in emergency aid

thousands of civilians seeking refuge at a U.N. peacekeeping base in the northern city of Bentiu when they ran As if rape were different than death,” says Mary, speaking in a safe house in neighboring Uganda run Neema Rukunghu knows better than anyone else the physical damage wrought by rape. It’s unlikely that she will ever be able to potty-train, or walk, or have a child of her own. It is a center for transformation.

people of Sudan, the region and the world:  African Islamic University in Khartoum serves as a hub for training The future of Sudan can look much different than its past, but it will take the courage and resolve of

Sporadic confessional violence over the last decades has not translated into a real threat to a long

The SPLC found that the number of hate groups operating in 2015 was 14 percent higher than in 2014. A Year of Living Dangerously — by Mark Potok — The political violence we saw in 2015 was worse than it

Nitzan Alon said that while Iran remains the greatest threat to Israel, the IS group is also a dangerous Israel is bitter enemies with President Bashar Assad’s government in Syria, which is backed by Iran and

Chairman Smith on the hearing: “More than half of the 635,000 refugees entering Europe this year are Oxfam America [full text of statement] [truth in testimony form] ____________________________ Hearing transcript

suggest malice on the part of the ICC, and without any reason to believe that it has done more harm than

The premises vibrate when trains depart overhead, as if mirroring the shudder the place provokes. They were unloaded from trucks and packed into wooden boxcars made to transport six horses but used for The indifference of a world unready to acknowledge that more than 4 million Syrian refugees absorbed counter-indifference gesture of Milan’s Holocaust memorial were repeated myriad times across a European Union of more than Lebanon’s population is now composed of Syrian refugees; the numbers reaching the E.U. constitute less than

They include the summary executions of more than 700 Yazidi men, the killing of the sick and elderly, More than 400,000 Yazidi have fled Iraq’s Sinjar and Nineveh Plains districts, at times with the help believe in one god and their theology mostly derives from ancient Iranian religious traditions, rather than responsible for running the media, they are responsible for the funding, they are responsible for the training