Islamic State
- Barbara Crossette
- • January 4, 2015
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The news from Syria and Iraq is most often dominated by besieged cities and airstrikes on the strongholds of the Muslim extremists of the Islamic State. What those fighters are doing to women they abduct is often hidden by…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Middle East, Women
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- Opinion by John Torpey
- • December 3, 2014
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Is the conflict in the contemporary Muslim world so unusual, given that Christians were doing similar things 400 to 500 years ago? Is it really a phenomenon that involves “Muslims,” or is it more a matter of conflicts peculiar…
- Categories: OPINIONS
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- Alexander Brotman
- • October 24, 2014
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After an extraordinary effort from the United Nations, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and about a half dozen countries, including the United States and Russia, 96 percent of Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal has been destroyed, acting…
- Categories: Disarmament, Libya, Middle East, Security Council
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