

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


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...
Human Rights Watch
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...
Joshua A. Geltzer | The Atlantic
Dec 27, 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


How ISIS Changed the Yezidi Religion
Those who went into exile have creatively adapted their rituals. Those who stayed have been just as innovative. By Cathy Otten BEHZANE,...
The Atlantic
Dec 22, 2017


Genocide Survivors Celebrate Christmas in Iraq
When ISIS arose in 2014, the jihadist force swept across northern Iraq and carried out an ethnic cleansing campaign of Christian villages...
Geoffrey Johnston | The Whig
Dec 21, 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


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


Yazidi women struggle to return to daily life after enduring Islamic State brutality
Yazidi women, who were sold as sex slaves by Islamic State militants, are now returning to their families from formerly ISIS-controlled...
PBS
Dec 18, 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