
Podcast: We’ve Said It – Now What? Genocide in the Middle East
For the full voice podcast please visit the Federalist Society . After much prodding from human rights advocates and congressional...
Genocide Watch
Apr 12, 2016

Time to Think Bigger About the Refugee Crisis
By Bono I’VE recently returned from the Middle East and East Africa, where I visited a number of refugee camps — car parks of humanity. I...
New York Times 1
Apr 12, 2016

Amnesty International: Executions Highest in 25 Years,
Despite a growing repudiation of the death penalty by governments around the world, at least 1,634 people were executed last year, the...
New York Times 1
Apr 7, 2016

The Assad Files: Capturing the top-secret documents that tie the Syrian regime to mass torture and k
Some half a million people have been killed in Syria’s civil war. An additional five million have fled, emptying the country. CREDIT...
The New Yorker
Apr 3, 2016

Russian Sappers Arrive in Syria to Clear Mines in Palmyra
This photo released on Monday March 28, 2016, by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows some damage at the ancient ruins of Palmyra,...
Genocide Watch
Mar 31, 2016

Qatar Wants to Buy Dozens of U.S. Warplanes. Why Won’t Washington Sell Them?
By Dan de Luce Image: The White House can’t decide whether to sign off on a multibillion-dollar arms deal with the Persian Gulf kingdom,...
Foreign Policy
Mar 29, 2016

From Minneapolis to ISIS
MINNEAPOLIS — Reading back over Abdi Nur’s Twitter feed, his chilling progression from the basketball courts of South Minneapolis to the...
New York Times 1
Mar 21, 2016


U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Daesh and Genocide
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE Office of the Spokesperson For Immediate Release March 17, 2016 Secretary of State John Kerry on Daesh and...
Genocide Watch
Mar 17, 2016

Top IDF General Calls Islamic State ‘Our Enemy’
Israel is sharing intelligence with allies battling the Islamic State despite remaining on the sidelines of Syria’s civil war, a top...
Haaretz
Feb 3, 2016

U.N. Says It Can’t Enforce a Syrian Peace Deal
By Colum Lynch Lost in this week’s debate about who would attend Syria peace talks was the question of who would enforce a Syrian peace....
Foreign Policy
Jan 29, 2016

Fulfilling the Humanitarian Imperative: Assisting Victims of ISIS Violence
Chairman Smith on the hearing: “More than half of the 635,000 refugees entering Europe this year are from ISIS-controlled territory in...
Foreign Affairs
Dec 9, 2015

Persecuted by Islamic State, Yazidis turn to ICC for Justice
Advocates for the Yazidi people of northern Iraq, who have been targeted by Islamic State because they are not Muslims, urged the...
Genocide Watch
Sep 24, 2015