by Aaron Haubert | Sep 19, 2013 | Monitor
Rebel-on-Rebel Violence Seizes Syria Nour Malas / The Wall Street Journal “Some FSA fighters now consider the extremists to be as big a threat to their survival as the forces of President Bashar al-Assad. ‘It’s a three-front war,’ a U.S. official said…” A...
by Christian Mull | Jul 17, 2013 | Monitor
City diplomacy integral to boosting economic, cultural exchanges Global Times Along with China’s increasing involvement in the international community, city diplomacy has become one of the most important elements that determine China’s future position in...
by Christian Mull | Jul 17, 2013 | Monitor
Since its establishment in 1948, the United States has never had a formal diplomatic relationship with North Korea. As North Korea continues to expand its nuclear weapons program and adopts an increasingly belligerent rhetoric one must ask: can the U.S. make effective...
by Chelsea Sanchez | Jul 1, 2013 | Monitor
Protesters to Egypt’s Morsy: You Have One Day To Step Down Salma Abdelaziz / CNN Egyptians who helped overthrow a 29-year dictatorship in a widely hailed revolution have now given the country’s first democratically elected president one day to step down from...
by Christian Mull | Jun 12, 2013 | Monitor
North Koreans get business internships in Singapore Tom Benner/The Atlantic The Choson Exchange, a Singapore-registered non-profit, for the past three years has regularly sent volunteers to Pyongyang and Rason, and more recently brought North Koreans to Singapore,...