by Cecilia Li | Jun 30, 2015 | Monitor
Key Reads In a Grisly First, Islamic State Beheads 2 Women in Syria, Monitor Says Laura King, Nabih Bulos / LA Times Islamic State militants beheaded two women on charges of “sorcery” in a northeastern province of Syria, a monitoring group reported Tuesday, in...
by Clark Derrington | Jun 30, 2015 | Monitor
Greek banks did not open for business Monday morning. The vast majority of them will stay closed for at least a week, with only a handful opening for pensioners to make withdrawals. This abrupt bank holiday could well be the beginning of the end of Greek membership in...
by SWJ Editors | Jun 30, 2015 | Monitor
By: SWJ Editors The Army has quietly killed a program that put social scientists on battlefields to help troops avoid unnecessary bloodshed and improve civilians' lives.
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Jun 30, 2015 | Monitor
A Film Review By Patricia Lee Sharpe The orchard of tangerines never gets harvested. That’s the way it is with war. People die, and the beautiful things go to waste. Tangerines, a cinematic collaboration between Estonia and Georgia, with additional support from the...