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
The Iran Nuclear Deal at Two: A Status Report
What’s the issue? The 2015 Iran nuclear accord is as successful as it remains fragile. President Trump has warned he will scuttle it...
International Crisis Group 1
Jan 16, 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...
Reporters without Borders 1
Jan 7, 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...
Arab News 1
Jan 6, 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...
Reporters without Borders 1
Jan 5, 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 4, 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
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
