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blantonjack

ISIS Says It's Behind Car Bombing in Damascus - 2 views

www.nytimes.com/...isis-syria-car-bomb.html

ISIS Syria War

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  • blantonjack on 10 Feb 16
     
    A car bomb tore up a vegetable market and a police officers' club in Damascus, the Syrian capital, on Tuesday, according to a witness and to regional news reports, striking an area that had been quiet for about two years under a local agreement between the Syrian government and insurgents. Isis has gone on to claim that they were behind the bombins that took place
ccfuentez

http://www.du.edu/korbel/hrhw/researchdigest/trafficking/MiddleEast.pdf - 0 views

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human trafficking Middle East slavery Migrant Workers forced labor

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  • Forms of human trafficking in the Middle East include domestic servitude and forced labor, child trafficking for camel jockeys, and sex trafficking.
  • Human trafficking is considered a contemporary form of slavery.
  • ccfuentez on 17 Feb 16
     
    People often fall victim to human trafficking, especially in the Middle East. The different forms of human trafficking are considered a contemporary form of slavery. Many of the human traffickers are often migrant workers.
blantonjack

Syria: Assad casts doubt on ceasefire prospects - CNN.com - 2 views

www.cnn.com/...index.html

Assad Syria politics

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  • blantonjack on 17 Feb 16
     
    President Assad believes that there is no cease fire in sight for the civil war raging in Syria.He told a group in Damascus on Monday that "no one" was capable of bringing about the necessary circumstances for a planned truce to take effect later this week. But in his comments on the proposal, Assad seemed skeptical about whether a halt in the conflict was possible.
petergrossmanseu

U.S. Weaponry Is Turning Syria Into Proxy War With Russia - The New York Times - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...syria-russia-airstrikes.html

syria proxy russia US new york times

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  • petergrossmanseu on 10 Feb 16
     
    New York Times article discussing how the US and Russia are getting involved in the Syrian conflict have turned it into a proxy war. I bookmarked this because I think it's significant to keep this in mind and how it echoes the events leading up to say Vietnam.
mportie

Obama Ordered Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...cyberattacks-against-iran.html

Politics war cyber US Iran warfare Obama

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  • mportie on 10 Feb 16
     
    The Obama administration continued cyber warfare initiatives against Iran, originally developed by the Bush administration. The cyber-weapon, dubbed Stuxnet, was co-developed by America and Israel in efforts to thwart Iranian nuclear plans. Although initially effective in its goal to confuse Iran, the cyber weapon has only created a cyber warfare in which Iran learned from the attack and has launched its own cyber weapon.
jherna2a

Yemen crisis: Who are the Houthi rebels? - 1 views

www.telegraph.co.uk/...Who-are-the-Houthi-rebels.html

Yemen Houthi revolution politics

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  • jherna2a on 10 Feb 16
     
    The Houthi rebellion brought forth a conflict with multiple players. The competing factions include the Houthis, the government, al-Qaeda, Al-Islah (a Sunni Islamist political faction), and Al-Hirak (the Southern Movement demanding secession).
ralph0

Syria: World powers agree to 'cessation of hostilities' - CNN.com - 0 views

www.cnn.com/...syria-talks

syria policy war cessation munich

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  • ralph0 on 12 Feb 16
     
    Progress regarding Syria has been made. Diplomats from around the world met in Munich, Germany where they agreed that there needs to be a "cessation of hostilities" and that more humanitarian aid needs to be provided to civilians.
ralph0

U.S. bombs Aleppo? Russia says yes, U.S. denies it - CNN.com - 0 views

www.cnn.com/...syria-war-russia-us

syria policy war US russia

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  • ralph0 on 12 Feb 16
     
    So now the Russians are accusing the US of interfering in Syria. Honestly, keeping up with these reports is ridiculous. The supposed "world powers" are constantly aiming falsified accusations at each other. If you're a "world power" shouldn't you at least have ethos?
cthomase

Islamic State-linked fighters seizing oil-rich land in Libya - 0 views

www.latimes.com/...isis-libya-20160208-story.html

ISIS war Libya politics

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  • cthomase on 11 Feb 16
     
    This is another example of how ISIS or ISIS inspired fighters are increasingly moving their operations Westward into Libya. As they continue to lose ground and support in Iraq and Syria, they find an area that is basically the wild west when it comes to terror. Libya has no stable government and no real solution to combat the influx of ISIS.
hwilson3

Saudi Arabia Decides To Ban Social Media | The News Tribe - 0 views

www.thenewstribe.com/...ia-decides-to-ban-social-media

#socialmedia #SaudiArabia #censorship #twitter #middleeast

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  • hwilson3 on 15 Feb 16
     
    This article describes a more recent incident with banning social media that happened in Saudi Arabia. It talks about how the government did this in order to "curb the spread of violence" but there are still violent actions being taken because of the ban.
eyadalhasan

Saudi Arabia vs. Iran: The Sunni-Shiite Proxy Wars - 0 views

www.wsj.com/...6D-4B26-88EC-BBFDD44AE112.html

Shiite Sunni MiddleEast

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  • eyadalhasan on 08 Mar 16
     
    Throughout the Middle East, Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shiite Iran compete for influence and supremacy via proxy wars in Yemen, Iraq and Syria. Produced by Reem Makhoul, Mark Scheffler and Arielle Ray.
hwilson3

Saudi Arabia tightens media laws - Al Jazeera English - 0 views

www.aljazeera.com/...20115135621233618.html

#SaudiArabia #socialmedia #facebook #censorship

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  • hwilson3 on 09 Mar 16
     
    This article discusses the media controls that Saudi Arabia put into place in order to avoid political revolutions like the ones in Tunisia and Egypt. It also discusses an attempted protest started via Facebook that was never actualized.
  • hwilson3 on 09 Mar 16
     
    This article discusses the media controls that Saudi Arabia put into place in order to avoid political revolutions like the ones in Tunisia and Egypt. It also discusses an attempted protest started via Facebook that was never actualized.
hwilson3

Saudi Arabia | Country report | Freedom of the Press | 2013 - 0 views

freedomhouse.org/...saudi-arabia

#censorship #SaudiArabia #middleeast #freedomofspeech

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  • hwilson3 on 09 Mar 16
     
    This report discusses the conditions of the media in Saudi Arabia. It claims that in 2012 Saudi Arabia media environment "remained among the most repressive the the world." It also talked about the fact that their government justified this repression by saying that it violated the Islamic Sharia law. This brought up and interesting point, because I had never thought about freedom of speech and religious freedom being linked in this regard.
cguybar

A Familiar Role for Muslim Brotherhood: Opposition - The New York Times - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...od-back-on-painful-ground.html

muslim Egypt brotherhood role opposition

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  • cguybar on 02 Mar 16
     
    This article gives some detail as to who exactly the opposition of the Muslim Brotherhood is. It also provides information concerning how the opposition has gone about the attack the Brotherhood.
eyadalhasan

Saudi beheadings: - 0 views

www.cnn.com/...index.html

Saudi beheadings Abdulaziz Algasim executions

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  • eyadalhasan on 01 Mar 16
     
    "Praise God," a Saudi executioner dressed in white tells her. He lifts his long silver sword and strikes her neck -- a gasp, then she falls silent. Twice more the hangman hacks at her neck, before stepping away to carefully wipe the blade.
petergrossmanseu

Day 2 of Syrian Partial Truce Is Marred by Violence - The New York Times - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...uce-is-marred-by-violence.html

truce violence new york times

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  • petergrossmanseu on 02 Mar 16
     
    Another New York Times article about the weekend truce. Unfortunately according to the article it seems that Russia used the clause that allows airstrikes against ISIS, as an opportunity to also bomb some opposition fighters positions.
petergrossmanseu

Violence in Syria Abates on Day 1 of Cease-Fire - The New York Times - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...es-on-day-1-of-cease-fire.html

syria new york times truce

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  • petergrossmanseu on 02 Mar 16
     
    A New York Times article discussing how the various sides were following the truce at the time of publication. I think this truce is a step in the right direction and therefore is worth bookmarking.
hwilson3

Time to Hold the Media to Account for Islamophobia | Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed - 0 views

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/...s-and-the-media_b_1682041.html

#media #islamophobia #middleeast #islam

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  • hwilson3 on 03 Mar 16
     
    This article takes a look at how the media- particularly in Western countries- has affected what is commonly known as islamophobia. Many people in America has strong prejudices against people who identify with the Islamic faith, and much of this is because they only hear negative attitudes about them from news media outlets. One interesting thing that I found about this article was the fact that it related these trends in media coverage to 9/11
hwilson3

Negative Portrayals of Muslims Get More Media Attention | 9/11 & Islam Faith - 0 views

www.livescience.com/ve-messages-muslims-media.html

#middleeast #islamophobia #Islam #media

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  • hwilson3 on 03 Mar 16
     
    This article discusses media coverage of Islam related to emotions. It talks about how negative messages about Islam tend to strike and emotional cord with people, which is why they are used more often in media.
hwilson3

Islamophobia and the "Negative Media Portrayal of Muslims" | Global Research - Centre f... - 0 views

www.globalresearch.ca/...5440451

#islamophobia #Islam #media #middleeast

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  • hwilson3 on 03 Mar 16
     
    This article from the Global Research Center for Globalization looks at the relationship with Islam and it's negative portrayal in the media. This is an important view because it looks at this relationship from both points of view.
  • hwilson3 on 03 Mar 16
     
    This article from the Global Research Center for Globalization looks at the relationship with Islam and it's negative portrayal in the media. This is an important view because it looks at this relationship from both points of view.
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