Reporters without Borders 1
Jan 7, 2018
Journalists arrested to prevent coverage of Iraqi Kurdistan protests
After dozens of journalists were prevented from covering opposition protests in recent days in Iraqi Kurdistan and opposition TV...
Arab News 1
Jan 6, 2018
OIC human rights delegation urges Myanmar government to end violence against Rohingya population
Persecution of the Rohingya minority of Myanmar represents one of the worst examples of ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity, the...
Reporters without Borders 1
Jan 5, 2018
Iran tries to censor coverage of protests by media based abroad
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the Iranian government’s attempt to silence coverage of the current wave of protests by...
International Crisis Group 1
Jan 4, 2018
How Iran’s President Rouhani Can Turn Crisis into Opportunity
Manifold reasons lie behind Iran’s ongoing protests, but the immediate trigger appears to be widespread disgruntlement over the country’s...
International Crisis Group 1
Jan 2, 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...
Foreign Policy
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...
Karim Sadjadpour | The Atlantic
Dec 31, 2017
The Battle for Iran
Protest movements in the Middle East face enormous repressive hurdles and rarely have happy endings. Even when protesters “succeed” in...
Forbes
Dec 30, 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,...
PBS
Dec 29, 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...
Elisa von Joeden-Forgey
Dec 28, 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...
Human Rights Watch
Dec 27, 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...
Joshua A. Geltzer | The Atlantic
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...
