Pick up the papers in Mexico these days and you’re likely to see something particularly alarming: among the daily toll of deaths and arrests in the country’s war on organized crime are an increasing number of children.
To coincide with World Refugee Day today, UNHCR released its annual report on the state of the world's refugees. Test your knowledge of global displacement issues with this brief quiz.
Former head of Afghanistan’s intelligence service, Amrullah Saleh, wrote an article on Bloomberg.com tacitly agreeing to the idea of negotiations with the Taliban and, rather curiously, calling for a truth commission as a way of reconciliation.
While estimates vary of the number of guns that were knowingly – and illegally – trafficked to Mexico under the ATF's controversial Operation Fast and Furious program, what is almost certain is that these guns will turn up at future crime scenes.
What most reports will not tell you is that the current governor of South Kordofan is a man named Ahmad Haroun. Prior to serving as governor, Haroun served as the Minister of State for the Interior, where he was assigned the "Darfur Security Desk."
Strong rhetoric is about the only tool at the disposal of the UN system right now because the Security Council has so far failed to take any action whatsoever on the Syria situation.