Scotland Welcomes Syrian Refugees Last Tuesday the Scottish public woke up to a message on the front page of The National — ‘To...
A Disgusting Fact about Toilets Picture an enemy that almost exclusively kills children. Well, sometimes it kills children. Sometimes it just maims them by...
Mali Attacks–What We Know So FarGunmen stormed an upscale hotel in Bamako, Mali today, apparently killing several people and taking hostages. The situation is still...
Can the UN Help Broker a Syria Ceasefire?For the first time in years, there is actual momentum towards an international political solution to the Syria conflict. Over the...
I Was A Refugee From the Middle East and America Saved MeI love America. I love America because it afforded me the opportunity to start a new life when my old...
Paris Attacks: “The biggest threat we face is division”UN Dispatch editor Mark Goldberg asked me to write about the Paris attacks. He asked the same after the Charlie...
Lesser Known Apocalypses – the crisis of antibacterial resistanceSometimes there are so many frightening things going on in the world that the quiet apocalypses go undiscussed. One of...
Can the Paris Attacks Move Syria Diplomacy?Might the attacks in Paris push Russia and the West closer to a common goal in Syria and be the...
ISIS Faces Big Setback in IraqIraqi’s Kurds scored a major victory today, retaking the Northern Iraqi City of Sinjar from ISIS. Kurdish troops, known as...