My role in the overal simultion was more in the informal negosiation because Brittan and Tanner handled more of the formal aspects for Malil. I think the place where most of my work took effect was negociating Gilbia’s treaty with the US to do some rewording as well as ajusting the Agreement to get our allies in a better possition…. Read more »
I was in class the first and last day of the simulation but I was on a field trip the second day in the ARM delegation. No one in my group had done model UN before so I helped everyone with addressing other delegates and how to address everyone when they speak up at the podium and I also helped… Read more »
A US-backed alliance of Syrian fighters has announced that the jihadist group Islamic State (IS) has lost the last pocket of territory in Syria it controlled, bringing a formal end to the “caliphate” it proclaimed in 2014. IS once controlled 88,000 sq km (34,000 sq miles) of territory stretching from western Syria to eastern Iraq. It imposed its brutal rule… Read more »
An explosion in the opposition-held Syrian province of Idlib has killed at least 15 people, rescue workers say. Three buildings in the town of Jisr al-Shughour were destroyed by the blast, the cause of which was not known. A monitoring group said it happened in front of an office belonging to the jihadist alliance that largely controls the province, Hayat… Read more »
Thousands of protesters have filled the streets of Khartoum calling for an end to the country’s military council. Many had travelled in from across Sudan to take part in the “million-strong march” for civilian rule. It comes despite the resignation of three controversial figures from the ruling Transitional Military Council – one of the protesters’ key demands. The three generals were seen… Read more »
More than 1,600 civilians were killed in US-led coalition air and artillery strikes during the offensive to oust the Islamic State group from the Syrian city of Raqqa in 2017, activists say. Amnesty International and monitoring group Airwars said they had carried out investigations at 200 strike locations and identified 1,000 of the victims. They urged the coalition to “end… Read more »
The US-backed assault to drive the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) from its Syrian capital Raqqa in 2017 killed more than 1,600 civilians, a figure 10 times what the coalition has acknowledged, according to a new report. The investigation, published by Amnesty International and the monitoring group Airwars on Thursday, urged top coalition members to “end almost… Read more »
The United Kingdom Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, was set to hold a meeting on Yemen with his Saudi, and Emirati counterparts, as well as the representatives of the United States and the United Nations, amid fears that the peace process in the poorest country in the Middle East has faltered. The meeting in London on Friday is expected to discuss… Read more »
Jerusalem (CNN)Israeli soldiers shot a blindfolded, handcuffed Palestinian teenager who had been arrested on suspicion of taking part in disturbances as he tried to flee.The shooting happened after a funeral in the Palestinian village of Tuqu’, south of Bethlehem in the West Bank, last Thursday, according to witnesses and a member of the Tuqu’ municipality. Photos and video from the… Read more »
(CNN)Saudi Arabia has executed 37 men convicted of terror-related crimes, the kingdom’s official news agency said Tuesday. One of the convicts was crucified, according to an interior ministry statement carried by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA).In Saudi Arabia, crucifixion means the body of someone executed is strung up and put on display as a deterrent to others.”The death penalty was… Read more »