theguardian: by Sarah Moroz — After their families were disappeared, tortured and murdered by Islamic State militants last year, young Yazidi women have armed themselves. Photographer Alfred Yaghobzadeh joins them A survivalist coalition … Yazidi fighters at their lookout point in Sinjar, Iraq, only two kilometres from the Isis […]
Guardian: On 6 August 1945, the first atomic bomb to be used in anger detonated over the city of Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later, it was Nagasaki’s turn. That was […]
Source: huffingtonpost.co.uk Hackers announced the beginning of World War Three – via the Twitter accounts of a major tabloid and news agency they had managed to take over. In a series of eerily-realistic tweets, The New York Post and United Press International (UPI) said an American aircraft carrier had been […]
crisisgroup.org: by Jean-Marie Guehenno — From Afghanistan to Yemen, the conflicts and crises the world faces in the coming year. The last year was a bad one for international peace and security. Sure, there were bright spots in 2014. Colombia’s peace process looks hopeful. The last round of Iran’s nuclear […]
The Washington Post: by Nick Kirkpatrick — Esther Tokpah, an 11-year-old orphan in Monrovia, Liberia, who lost both parents to Ebola. A new report released on Monday by UNICEF declares 2014 a “devastating” year for children. “Never in recent memory have so many children been subjected to such unspeakable brutality,” UNICEF Executive Director Anthony […]
thenation.com: This is the most dangerous time for Russian-US relations since the Cuban missile crisis, according to Stephen Cohen. When Cohen joined The Young Turks this week, he explained that we are living through a new Cold War, and that those who deny it are the people who “got us into it […]
Published on Nov 17, 2014 This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Our global and national history has shown a dangerous human […]
telegraph.co.uk: Poppies have become the symbol of Remembrance Day. Anyone who wants to commemorate the lives of those who died for Britain in the war simply has to buy a poppy and proudly wear it on their lapel. But Muslim women will now be able to go one step further, […]
‘We want everyone to know that a woman is no different to a man when it comes to defending her country.’ That is the message from a group of incredibly brave women who have signed up to fight for the Kurdish Peoples’ Protection Unit (YPG) against the self-proclaimed Islamic State […]
The number of Europeans joining Islamist fighters in Syria and Iraq has risen to more than 3,000, the EU’s anti-terrorism chief has told the BBC. Gilles de Kerchove also warned that Western air strikes would increase the risk of retaliatory attacks in Europe. US-led forces have launched nearly 200 air […]
The number of Europeans joining Islamist fighters in Syria and Iraq has risen to more than 3,000, the EU’s anti-terrorism chief has told the BBC. Gilles de Kerchove also warned that Western air strikes would increase the risk of retaliatory attacks in Europe. US-led forces have launched nearly 200 air […]
theguardian: Giles Fraser — Since the second world war, we have got used to the idea that big war is a thing of the past. But no more. This is the third world war. And this time we are on its fringes. One word was conspicuously absent from Barack Obama’s big speech re-declaring war […]
Kalyan, India: For more than a decade, as alienated young Muslim men from all over the world left home to fight on the side of Islamists in distant conflicts, it has been a truism that they were not coming from India, a country whose participatory politics and preoccupation with nearby […]
theguardian: Editorial — Displaced Palestinian Hajar Muharram, five, sits in a classroom where her family of seven now lives, at a UN school, in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip. Photograph: Lefteris Pitarakis/AP Wars kill people, including teachers in their classrooms, nurses in their hospitals, and farmers in their fields. But […]
Source: http://www.ahoban.org যুদ্ধ ও জেহাদ যুদ্ধ কে আরবীতে বলে কিতাল । যুদ্ধের নাম জেহাদ নয় । জেহাদ জাহদ শব্দ থেকে । এর অর্থ পরিপূর্ণ রূপে চেষ্টা প্রচেষ্টা করা (তাজুল উরুস ) নিজের প্রবৃত্তির বিরুদ্ধে সংগ্রাম করা সব চাইতে বড় জেহাদ , জেহাদে আকবর (মেশকাত) মহানবী (সাঃ) বলেছেন নিজেদে ন নফসের […]
Most of us have been taught that much of the world’s political instability and violence is rooted in economic problems and hardships. The argument often goes something like this: “If the people in country X could just get more jobs and hope for a prosperous future, then the terrorism/crime/unrest would […]
Most of us have been taught that much of the world’s political instability and violence is rooted in economic problems and hardships. The argument often goes something like this: “If the people in country X could just get more jobs and hope for a prosperous future, then the terrorism/crime/unrest would […]
The US failed to secure agreement on a ceasefire to end 18 days of fighting between Israel and Hamas in Gaza on Friday night but insisted that efforts were continuing to arrange a humanitarian truce in time for a Muslim holiday early next week. John Kerry, the US secretary of state, said he was […]
theguardian: by Giles Fraser — For decades now the United Nations has been unable to agree a definition of terrorism. Even our own supreme court recently concluded that there is no internationally agreed definition. The stumbling block has been that western governments want states and state agents to be exempt […]
theguardian: by Keith Kahn-Harris — It suits a variety of agendas to claim that British Jews are largely united in support for Israel during this current round of conflict. Israelis and those who approve of Israel’s actions find succour in this supposed homogeneity. Conversely, Palestinians and those who support them outside […]