by Brendan Zehner | Nov 15, 2013 | Monitor
Watchdog Discusses Syrian Weapon Plan Mike Corder/USA Today The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons was discussing a plan to destroy its estimated 1,000-metric-ton arsenal, which includes mustard gas and the deadly nerve agent sarin. Syria says it...
by Brendan Zehner | Nov 14, 2013 | Monitor
ASP Senior Fellow for Energy and Climate Andrew Holland wrote an editorial for Weather.com entitled, What Typhoon Haiyan Means for National Security. He focuses on the devastating typhoon which recently hit the Philippines. Super Typhoon Haiyan made landfall in the...
by Brendan Zehner | Nov 8, 2013 | Monitor
Typhoon Haiyan The Telegraph Typhoon Haiyan has exacerbated the problems faced by the residents on Bohol Island in the Philippines struggling to recover from an earthquake that killed 222 people three weeks ago. 3 European Officials Join Kerry Michael Gordon...
by Brendan Zehner | Nov 6, 2013 | Monitor
Secret Route through Turkey Nick Paton Walsh/CNN A route that was once little used is now a busy, if unofficial, border crossing. It leads from the airport to a local safe house and then, at night, to the often porous fence between Syria and Turkey. Losing...
by Brendan Zehner | Oct 30, 2013 | Monitor
Egypt Arrests Muslim Brotherhood Leader Richard Spencer/The Telegraph Police arrested Essam el-Erian in an apartment in Cairo. Mr. Erian had been on the run since a warrant was issued for his arrest following the army’s overthrow of the Muslim Brotherhood president,...