UN peacekeepers are sent to some of the most war-ravaged countries on Earth, ostensibly to help them transition to peace. But some stand accused of committing crimes against the very people they are supposed to protect. According to a recent investigation by the Associated Press (AP), between 2004 and 2016…

UN peacekeepers are sent to the most war-ravaged countries on Earth, ostensibly to help them transition to peace. But some stand accused of committing crimes against the very people they are supposed to protect. According to a recent investigation by the Associated Press (AP), between 2004 and 2016, the United…

UN peacekeepers are sent to the most war-ravaged countries on Earth, ostensibly to help them transition to peace. But some stand accused of committing crimes against the very people they are supposed to protect. According to a recent investigation by the Associated Press (AP), between 2004 and 2016, the United…

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This attack is on the culture of tolerance, on the pluralism of Muslim countries that is represented in Istanbul. — I have now blissfully forgotten how many times I have visited Istanbul, or why is it I feel so much at home there. …

Social media made the Syrian revolutionary movement less resilient and more exposed to regime brutality. — By Riham Alkousaa “Will I die, miss? Will I die?” asks a Syrian boy in panic. The recent video shot in a wrecked hospital in Aleppo in the aftermath of a chlorine gas attack went viral on social media. …

Bill Clinton, George Bush, Barack Obama, none of them tried to allay Palestine’s misery. Hillary wouldn’t have either. by Yasmeen El Khoudary On December 14, 1998, we had a day off at school. As an eight-year-old child, I couldn’t be happier. All the shops were closed and there were roadblocks…

As an African American boy growing up in The Projects, discovering positive black characters helped to save my life. — By John Metta My memories of that long ago are like found photographs, all sepias and faded greens. A cold, silent room. Bright white lights and blue sheets that smelled like my grandma’s house. A sewing needle and scissors on a steel table. …

Ten years after the war, relatives of nearly 1,400 disappeared see little hope of finding loved ones or seeing justice. — By Saif Khalid and Gyanu Adhikari Bardiya and Kathmandu — Lautan Kumari Chaudhary remembers the knock on her door. It was 3am on April 11, 2002, and people had come looking for her husband in Mangalpur, their village in Bardiya district’s Rajapur. “We were sleeping. Somebody called, ‘Comrade! Open the…