
How can the US defeat IS jihadists?
President Barack Obama calls the Islamic State a jihadist “cancer” threatening the Middle East and the rest of the world but has so far backed only limited air strikes against the extremists. If the United States intends to decisively defeat IS, what diplomatic and military means would... read more »

Africa: Briefing Security Council, Senior Officials Urge UN System-Wide App...
The Security Council today expressed its commitment to consider and use the tools of the United Nations system to ensure that warning signals about potential conflicts trigger “early, concrete preventive action,” as senior UN officials urged the body to take up the challenge of helping... read more »

Two Americans beat Ebola, leave hospital
WASHINGTON – Two American missionaries who fell ill with the dangerous Ebola virus while working in Liberia have recovered and have been released from an Atlanta hospital, doctors said Thursday. Doctor Kent Brantly, 33, and Nancy Writebol, 60, became sick with Ebola in Monrovia last month,... read more »

How many Palestinian civilians is a single militant worth?
On the night of August 5, Gaza’s Interior and National Security Ministry posted a comment on its Facebook page decrying the damage caused by publishing names and photographs of “resistance fighters who fell in battle” (shahids), along with information on where they died. The Israeli military... read more »