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Arab League Boss: I Fear a Civil War in Syria

Matt Cantor — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 08:53:05 CST

As Arab League observers begin to bail on their Syria mission—frustrated over their own failure to end the government crackdown against protesters—the leader of the League says he's concerned the crisis could escalate. "I fear a civil war and the events that we see and hear about now...

UN: Syria Now a 'Civil War'

Kate Schwartz — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:51:41 CST

Words that describe the situation in Syria: conflict, uprising, revolt ... civil war? The latter now applies, according to the UN's top human rights official. Navi Pillay today said that more than 4,000 people are dead, though "really the information coming to us is that it's much more than that....

Breitbart on Liberals: 'We Have the Guns'

Matt Cantor — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:09:39 CDT

Liberals may talk tough, but if there were a war between left and right, “they cannot win,” says Andrew Breitbart: “We outnumber them in this country, and we have the guns,” the conservative blogger told Tea Partiers. After the crowd laughed, he said, “I’m not kidding,” Mediaite reports. “They talk...

Sudan Border Region Revolts

Mark Russell — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 07:41:59 CDT

Just days before southern Sudan is poised to break away and form a new country, ending decades of civil war and bloodshed, new fighting is breaking out in the north's Nuba Mountains along the north-south border, reports the New York Times . The Sudan government is desperate to keep the oil-rich...

Libya's Lesson: It's OK to Stop Genocide

Mark Russell — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 08:00:45 CDT

The US intervention into the bloody unrest in Libya has drawn a wide range of criticisms—President Obama has not explained US objectives, there's no exit strategy, it's inconsistent to get involved in Libya and not elsewhere—and "those critics are all right," writes Nicholas Kristof in the New York...

Southern Sudan Votes, Could Spawn New Nation

Mark Russell — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 06:06:59 CST

Millions flock to the polls in southern Sudan today for a historic election that could give birth to a new nation, reports the Washington Post . The nation's 22-year-old civil war ended in 2005 with some 2 million casualties, but the violence continued, made worse by a sectarian divide, with the...

Don't Blow It, World: Sudan Has Chance at Peace

John Johnson — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 13:52:05 CST

For Sudan, this might be as optimistic as it gets: Two experts have returned from a two-week visit and concluded that war and violence "are not inevitable" following January's referendum on southern independence. "But only if the international community sets clear lines of acceptable behavior as the two sides manage...

Obama Is Failing Sudan

Emily Rauhala — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 07:08:25 CDT

When is comes to Sudan , Barack Obama has been worse than even George W Bush, argues Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times , who despite his many failings, managed to secure the 2005 deal that ended Sudan's 20-year civil war. Obama's "incoherent, contradictory and apparently failing Sudan policy" is setting...

Gang Rape Epidemic Cripples Congo

Kevin Spak — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:36:30 CDT

The Democratic Republic of Congo is in the midst of a horrific and deepening gang rape crisis, according to a new report commissioned by Oxfam. Of the roughly 4,000 rape victims researchers interviewed, 60% said they’d been attacked by groups of armed men. The sheer number of such sexual...