Foreign Policy Association
Friday, May 13, 2016 - 06:41
In its ongoing campaign to retake Aleppo, Assad’s army has relied heavily on the manpower and expertise of its Iranian allies. Since Feb. 3, the Syrian army — backed by Russian forces, the IRGC, and Tehran-backed militias — has reversed many of its military defeats on the outskirts of the city.
Wednesday, October 23, 2013 - 07:59
"Do people actually live here?” I recall asking myself as I made the torturous journey through the streets of the bullet-riddled ruins of Mogadishu in the back of a noisy, slow and filled-to-capacity, open-top military utility truck. It is difficult to imagine a place on earth more desperate and wretched than Somalia in the 1990s. I vividly recall my first day there in 1993 – a day in which my senses were ambushed by jarring sights, smells, and sounds that would help form the framework of my understanding of a failed state.
Thursday, October 20, 2011 - 00:00
The concluding statement is as it says - an accusation of human rights violations by a sitting Head of State. I would expect that IAPA and other respected journalists would require concrete evidence to support such an accusation