Given the current political forces in Baghdad and security realities in Mosul, an incremental approach is needed.
While the ruins of Raqqa have changed hands, the drivers and impacts of the war remain open wounds.
The New York Declaration called for states to ease pressure on less-developed countries like Lebanon, Jordan, and Ethiopia that host the most refugees.
Any move to dismantle the nuclear deal will only relinquish the moral high ground to Iran, leaving the US as the isolated party.
A century later, and after several civil wars and invasions, not much has changed in how different Lebanese communities invent and reinvent their national identities.
The regional hostile post-referendum moves may seem to leave the Kurds with little reason for optimism, but in Kurdistan, resistance never comes as a surprise.
The decreasing number of migrants arriving on Italian shores does not mean that the people stopped fleeing persecution, violence, or poverty, but simply stopped arriving. Where are they?
One can only wonder how the HRC can maintain its credibility while its member states are actively working against the council’s very raison d’être of protecting human rights.
The result of Iraqi Kurdistan’s independence referendum was never in doubt, but the budding state’s future is.
Continued attacks on the transitional justice process in Tunisia will weaken the gains made by women, and prevent an inclusive transition to democracy.
