Armed Conflicts

Mexican Victims of Violence Take Aim Against U.S. Firearms

By Emilio Godoy
“The United States should stop producing so many weapons, which cause us so much harm. That country also suffers from so much violence, as billions of dollars go into manufacturing guns.”

U.S. Denies Consensus with Israel on Iran Nuclear Threat

By Mitchell Plitnick
Tensions rose Thursday between the Barack Obama administration and the Israeli government when a leading Israeli official claimed to have knowledge of U.S. intelligence that portrays Iran as a more immediate threat than Washington has been saying.

Back Home With Help and Hope

By Ashfaq Yusufzai
Thousands who fled their homes in the Taliban-led violence over the past three years have now returned to rebuild their lives, and their homes.

Humanity Should Not Live Under Nuclear Threat

By Federico Mayor Zaragoza
Now that the war in Iraq is considered ‘over’, another major goal of Israel has come into view: attacking Iran on the pretext that it may possibly be working on a nuclear weapon - though Pakistan, China, and India definitely already have them.

Syrian Forces Launch Ground Assault in Aleppo

By AJ Correspondents
The Syrian army has launched a ground assault on the northern city of Aleppo, sparking fierce clashes with opposition fighters in the frontline district of Salaheddine.

Persecuted Libyans Struggle to Be Heard

By Mel Frykberg
Pregnant women miscarrying due to mistreatment, detainees mainly from sub-Saharan Africa denied adequate food and water. Small cells crammed with 80-100 detainees subjected to arbitrary justice by Libya’s volatile militias, politically persecuted Somalis forcibly repatriated to Mogadishu, and hundreds of boat people dying trying to flee Libya for a better life in Europe.

Colonised by the Arabs, Abandoned by the World

By Karlos Zurutuza
Untamed stone villages line up over imposing green valleys. In winter they are white with snow. The luckiest have a view to the deep blue sea. "It’s gorgeous, isn’t it," says Amzi from his yellow cab. "Nobody would say we’re living in an open-air prison."

High-Level Defections, Escalating Violence Mark New Phase of Syrian Uprising

By Samer Araabi
As government security forces continue a week-long siege of Aleppo, Syria’s second-largest city, high-ranking Syrian officials have begun to defect from the regime in record numbers.
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OP-ED: Weapons into Ploughshares, and Crises into Opportunity

By Sergio Duarte
The crisis that started a few years ago with the collapse of major financial institutions in the United States is now centred in Europe and threatens other parts of the world. Many emerging countries in Asia and Latin America that had thus far avoided contamination because of their sound economic and fiscal policies and their timely adoption of domestic consumption stimulus packages are now beginning to experience secondary effects.

Holy Sites Hold Fast to Status Quo

By Pierre Klochendler
“With our spirit, with our blood, we’ll redeem you, O Noble Sanctuary!” the veiled teenagers fervently sing in unison in honour of the Muslim Holy month of Ramadan. Israeli police officers in uniform and full battle gear sit unimpressed under pine trees; others patrol the compound.

Palestinian Bubble Set to Burst

By Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
“It will collapse, and the collapse will be harder when it happens later,” says Tareq Sadeq, Palestinian economist and professor at Birzeit University, about the financial bubble building up in the Palestinian Authority government.

TURKEY: Caught Between Syria’s Kurds and a Hard Spot

By Dorian Jones
In a display of muscle-flexing, Turkish tanks this week carried out military exercises on the Syrian border, just a few kilometres away from towns that Syrian Kurds had seized from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces.

An Unconventional Road to Peace

By Marwaan Macan-Markar
In a country where talk of a ceasefire brings representatives from 11 different armed ethnic groups to the table, Myanmar’s chief peace negotiator, Railway Minister Aung Min, is experimenting with an unusual solution to decades of separatist struggles.

Pakistan Says Goodbye to Refugees Not Leaving

By Zofeen Ebrahim
Pakistan faces increased international pressure to extend the stay of Afghan refugees as it seeks to push them back to war-torn Afghanistan.

As Fighting Escalates in Syria, a Frustrated Mediator Resigns

By Thalif Deen
After five months of intense shuttle diplomacy aimed at resolving the growing 17-month old political crisis in Syria, a visibly frustrated Joint Special Envoy Kofi Annan called it quits.

When the Lights Go Out, Talk

By Mohammed Omer
When the lights go out, Gazans look for generators to switch on. And, they find people to talk to. With so many power cuts over so long now, people are giving themselves the somewhat dubious comfort that human relations may have improved as a result of these power cuts.

Egypt Opening Doors to Gaza, Slowly

By Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani
With the election of the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi as Egypt's first-ever freely elected president, the Gaza file – especially as it pertains to Egypt's border with the besieged enclave – is fast becoming one of the new president's first major foreign policy challenges.

U.S., Russia and China Stick to Their Guns

By Coralie Tripier
The protracted negotiations on an Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) with the ambitious aim of eradicating the illicit trade in conventional arms hit a deadlock Friday at United Nations as Washington, Moscow and Beijing required "more time" after six years of preparatory meetings.

Lebanon Heading for Failed State Status?

By Mona Alami
Every day Lebanon is being plunged further into a state of general insecurity, as chaos from the war in Syria seeps across the border.

Trading Across the Line of Control

By Athar Parvaiz
As part of recent confidence building measures aimed at minimising tensions between India and Pakistan, which arose largely due to conflicting claims over Kashmir, the two countries have decided to make the Valley an economic bridge, rather than a bone of contention.

Israeli Group Maps Palestinian Removals

By Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
Sitting in an airconditioned car along Road 60 in the heart of the occupied West Bank, Ovad Arad explained how he goes about his job: driving unannounced into Palestinian towns and villages, taking photographs, having coffee with families, and leaving almost as quickly as he arrived.
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