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"The regional impact of the blockade on Qatar will be a lasting one and will not go away with the signing of a declaration". On June 15th, 2017 Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Egypt severed political and economic ties with Qatar. However, recently The "solidarity and stability" agreement has made progress in overcoming this conflict.

81 more civilians were killed in Aleppo today. Up to 300 people have been killed in the past 3 weeks. In response to Aleisha's article, I think this pretty much proves that the cease-fire (which was created about a month ago) has been obliterated.

The ceasefire in Syria seems to have been truly meaningless; as I understand it the agreement barely stood for an hour. The fact that Russia has no problem shelling civilian areas into dust is absolutely reprehensible, and that the US and its allies haven't done much of anything substantive is quite sad.

Yes, I agree it is disappointing that the ceasefire failed; however, I think it is important to recognize that quite often, the first ceasefire of a conflict is not the last. Even though it was unsuccessful, it was not totally meaningless because it is just the start of a process, and it opened the door for a dialogue that could potentially lead to peace talks.

Since the initial 8.1 earthquake, there have been more than 700 aftershocks. Residents are concerned that the governments made no effort to aid the victims for 24 hours after the largest earthquake. In places like Oaxaca, despite being in a seismic zone, the government did not have a plan to aid residents.

I found the map in the article to be incredibly informative detailing how much land the Taliban actually controls, and how much of the land is still contested.