Weakened by years of war, Syria's government appears ready for the country's de facto partition, defending strategically important areas and leaving much of the country to rebels and jihadists. The strategy was in evidence recently with the Syrian army's retreat from the ancient central city of Palm

In the final days of the Bonn Climate Change Conference of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Corporate Accountability International delivered a resounding call to the governments who have ratified the UNFCCC: protect the treaty and climate policymaking from the undu

Just three weeks ago the Egyptian court sentenced Egypt’s former Muslim Brotherhood president, Mohammed Morsi, to the death penalty after evidence presented from Egyptian intelligence documents proved him guilty of spying for Qatar, Iran and Turkey.
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US President Barack Obama on Monday at the G7 summit of world leaders in Germany acknowledged that the US still lacks a "complete strategy" to defeat the Islamic State (ISIS) and stem the group's rise in Syria and Iraq and further said "We don't yet have a complete strategy. The details of that are

Leela Shikhdhar was born in a farmer’s family of village Gabia. She had to leave her studies midway after passing Class 8 as her mother got sick and the responsibility of managing the household chores and looking after her four siblings fell upon her. But after her marriage she managed to finish her

His Eminence, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah of Hezbollah (Hizbullah), once more warned Christians about the menace of ISIS (Islamic State – IS) and al-Qaeda groups like al-Nusra. Nasrallah made it known that Takfiris kill all and sundry irrespective if Alawite, Christian, Shia, Sunni or whatever. Therefor

Indian media is reporting that during this week ruling party BJP leaders (Members of Parliament etc) and editorial in the mouthpiece ‘Saamna’ of another Hindutva party Shiv-Sena (Ally of BJP) have started reminding BJP about construction of Ram Temple (as promised in 2014 Lok Sabha election manifest

Pakistani Christians are now regularly making nation and international headlines, not because they have achieved something, but because of their suffering for being Christians. Thus Pakistan is being maligned by the international community, which is de facto because of the government’s poor policies

Luke 16: 1 – 14, we study and learn great lesson of unrighteous managers who was managing things of his lord. Somebody complained about manager who had not been honest. His lord called his manager to get back everything from him. Because he had been dealing with it in a dishonest rough ways, even he

Dear Military Veterans
According to media report, Indian Ex-Servicemen Movement (IESM) has planned to organize a demonstration ('maha rally') in New Delhi on Sunday, June 14. A meeting of all the ex-servicemen organisations is also scheduled to be held on Saturday, June 6, at Dhaula Kuan in the nat

There was consensus among Baloch politicos those behind the killing of of 22 Pashtuns aboard two buses who were traveling from Pishin to Karachi in Mastung Friday night is called the Punjab-- popularly known as Pakistan. A good tweet Saturday came, as usual, from Canadian writer and broadcaster Tar

If you want to view the real mirror of ISIS (IS – Islamic State) then look no further than the religious apartheid state of Saudi Arabia. After all, this nation supports systematic anti non-Muslim and anti-Shia legislation. Indeed, not one Buddhist temple, Hindu temple or Christian church is tolerat

Child sexual abuse is the most prevalent social issue in almost all countries of the world but the ratio of occurrence of this problem is higher in developing countries where it is found in wide range due to the high rate of poverty, negligence of parents, high population growth rate and lack of pro

In the backdrop of recommendation by State government for removal of Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) from Tripura the J&K Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed on May, 30 said at a meet at SKICC that his Government will achieve its objectives regarding revocation of AFSPA in J&K. On hoisting

With one person dying every six seconds from a tobacco-related disease -- almost 5.4 million deaths per year of which more than 600,000 are of non-smokers due to secondhand smoke-- the tobacco epidemic is a global public health threat. If current trends continue, by 2030 nearly 8 million people are