by Anil Powers | Nov 4, 2015 | Monitor
Key Reads Tropical Cyclone Dumping Year’s Worth of Rain on War-Torn Yemen in One Day Jethro Mullen / CNN Ravaged by months of war, Yemen has now been battered by the first tropical storm on record to make landfall in the impoverished Arab country. Turkey...
by Dan Day | Jun 17, 2014 | Monitor
Iraq crisis: U.S. moves firepower to region as ISIS advance continuesLaura Smith-Spark and Nic Robertson / CNNAs Islamic militants continue their murderous advance in Iraq, the Pentagon is moving more firepower and manpower into the region to prepare for whatever U.S....
by Jeffrey Lloyd | Jun 16, 2014 | Monitor
After the fall of Hosni Mubarak in 2011 Egyptian security in the Sinai Peninsula evaporated. This left a vacuum for radical Bedouins to take revenge after decades of repression from the Egyptian Department of Interior. Years of widespread arrests, mass detention, and...
by Farhad Mirzadeh | Dec 9, 2013 | Monitor
For Mandela, the world will come to his doorstep to say goodbye Christian Science Monitor Leaders from all around the world and ordinary South Africans will travel to the village where Nelson Mandela will be buried to pay their tributes. Give first-step Iran deal...
by Chelsea Daymon | Mar 26, 2013 | Monitor
By: Chelsea Daymon The Egyptian Sinai is becoming a breakaway state.