What You Need To Know: Week of 10/18
Syria The Islamic State (IS), also known as ISIS or ISIL, has reportedly been halted and forced to retreat in their attack on Kobane, the strategically important town on the… Read more…
Syria The Islamic State (IS), also known as ISIS or ISIL, has reportedly been halted and forced to retreat in their attack on Kobane, the strategically important town on the… Read more…
Syria ISIS, also known as the Islamic State, has this week seized up to one third of the strategically important Syrian border town of Kobani. Reuters reports that although the… Read more…
Syria Turkish Members of Parliament this morning voted to take action against the Islamic State (ISIS) as the Islamist terror organization progresses towards the Kurdish town of Kobani, which rests… Read more…
Syria Government forces in Syria have this week increased their attacks against moderate Syrian rebels in both intensity and scale, as reported by the New York Times. Hassan Abu Nouh is an… Read more…
Here’s all you need to know from the world of gen prev from 9/7 to 9/12. Syria In an address to the American public on Wednesday evening, President Obama outlined his… Read more…
Fast Facts: Colleen Fonseca is one of STAND’s Emerging Conflict Analysts. Currently she is a junior at St. John’s University, studying Government and Politics. She is also involved with SJU STAND… Read more…
This piece was written by Colleen Fonseca, STAND’s Emerging Conflicts Coordinator. Colleen is junior at St. John’s University in NYC and can be reached at colleenfonseca 7 at gmail dotcom…. Read more…
This piece was written by Colleen Fonseca, STAND’s Emerging Conflicts Coordinator. Colleen is junior at St. John’s University in NYC and can be reached at colleenfonseca 7 at gmail dotcom…. Read more…
This update is by STAND’s Education Task Force members Colleen Fonseca and Sagal Hashi. For the past several weeks, the two main political parties in Mozambique have been clashing…. Read more…
This post is written by Danny Hirschel-Burns, STAND Policy Coordinator. It is the first post in a series on Burma, which we are featuring as part of our Burma: Preventing the… Read more…