Karen Nettleton, from Melbourne, Australia has been using the past five years to search for her grandchildren who were taken from her by their mother from Sydney in 2014 to join the Islamic State in Syria. Mrs. Nettleton wailed as she lifted the niqab from a girl’s face she believed to be her granddaughter in a Syrian refugee camp. An… Read more »
MELBOURNE, Australia — Karen Nettleton has spent the past five years in search of her grandchildren, who were taken by their mother in 2014 from Sydney, Australia, to join the Islamic State in Syria. Finally, in late March, she made it to the sprawling al-Hawl refugee camp in Syria’s Kurdish northeast. There, she found a teenager she believed to be… Read more »
The al-Hol camp in north eastern Syria is an overflowing vessel of anger and unanswered questions. Inside are the lost women and children of the jihadist group Islamic State (IS), abandoned by their men, their nightmare caliphate and their governments. Some cling to their hate-fuelled ideology: “We are undefeated!” they scream in your face. Others beg for a way out… Read more »
Bahrain’s king has reinstated the citizenship of 551 people convicted by courts during a crackdown on dissent. No reason was given for the decision and those affected were not named. At least 990 Bahrainis have reportedly lost their citizenship through court decisions or executive orders since 2012. Most have been left effectively stateless, and some have been deported. They have… Read more »
US President Donald Trump has decided to end exemptions from sanctions for countries still buying oil from Iran. The White House said waivers for China, India, Japan, South Korea and Turkey would expire in May, after which they could face US sanctions themselves. This decision is intended to bring Iran’s oil exports to zero, denying the government its main source… Read more »
I represented the U.S. Department of State in the simulation. In regards to representing a world hegemon, we immediately dominated the committee due to our financial flexibility and playing an authority-type role. I felt extremely well prepared thanks to my several previous years of Model UN experience. The entire simulation was almost identical to the rules of a Model United… Read more »
Seventy people have died in the one month long record flooding going on in parts of Iran, leaving multiple injuries and extremely high casualties in provinces such as Fars, Lorestan, Golestan, and Halestan. Records state that roughly 1900 cities and villages in Iran have been destroyed since March 19th. This extensive flooding caused millions of dollars of damage regarding water… Read more »
CNN)Seventy people have died in flooding in Iran after record rainfalls began saturating parts of the country last month, state-run media reported.Deaths have been recorded across 13 provinces, with the highest casualties in Fars, Lorestan, Golestan and Hamedan, state-run IRNA quotes the head of Iran’s Coroner’s Office, Ahmad Shojaei, as saying. Flash flooding kills 19, injures more than 100 in southwest… Read more »
It has been almost two years since the jihadist group Islamic State was defeated in Iraq’s second city of Mosul following a battle that left thousands of civilians dead. Large parts of the city have yet to be rebuilt and residents are growing increasingly frustrated, as the BBC’s Shaimaa Khalil reports. The Old City on the western side of the… Read more »
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu looks all but certain to stay in office for a record fifth term after his biggest election challenger, Benny Gantz, admitted defeat on Wednesday. With almost all votes counted, both men’s parties are neck and neck. But a coalition between Mr Netanyahu’s Likud and smaller right-wing and religious parties could form a 65 seat majority in… Read more »