Middle East

The United Nations General Assembly voted on Thursday, December 17th to passed a resolution strongly condemning Iran’s horrific and systematic human rights violations -- especially group and arbitrary executions, increasing violence and discrimination against women and religious and ethnic minorities.(1) This is the 62nd U.N. resolution against

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So far, I've watched FRONTLINE's The Fight For Yemen twice this week. A second viewing convinced me that people in that region tend to exaggerate a lot of what happens out there. In one scene where the reporter records a group who says that the Houthis

"Amman at night in 2007" di Jim Greenhill from Arlington and Durango, USA - 091027-A-3715G-096. Con licenza Pubblico dominio tramite Wikimedia Commons. Okay, Jordan moved so fast with the executions of two "Jihadis" that this is pretty much old news now; past the expiration date of

Assholes Hack Z Communications So this just happened today: Just what in the hell? A follow up via their Facebook page asks why they went after zcommunications: There's no way to currently know whether these people any more serious than to take down a site. Well, there is