NNPA NEWSWIRE — In 2022, Russia has decimated Ukraine and left 40 million people without water, food, heat, and a place to sleep. As Ukraine and...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — An estimated 13 million are facing severe hunger mostly because of droughts that have afflicted the Horn of Africa, and those in Ethiopia,...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “This is cruelty. It’s evil… What I saw today was slave patrol — it is shameful and absolutely disgraceful,” said Patrice Lawrence, co-Director...
NNPA NEWSWIRE— “The most recent component of this story has been the leak that a special conference is to be hosted in Bahrain to unveil the...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The human toll is also staggering. Noted economist Jeffrey Sachs has said that since 2017, 40,000 Venezuelans have died because of the sanctions....
(Business Standard) – French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has been criticised for publishing a cartoon depicting the death of three-year-old Syrian toddler Aylan Kurdi as its...
(Sydney Morning Herald) – In the last week, heart-wrenching photographs of dead children on Europe’s shores have re-ignited calls for wealthy western states to reform their...
(New York Daily News) – France and Britain offered to welcome a combined 44,000 Syrian refugees over the next five years, as a former State Department...
TAMARA LUSH, Associated Press The photo of the dead 3-year-old Syrian boy on a Turkish beach is haunting. It captures everything we don’t want to see...
(BBC) – Europe’s migration crisis affects EU member states in different ways – so it is proving difficult to agree on common rules. The influx...
(BBC) – The European Commission has called on EU member states to take in 40,000 asylum seekers from Syria and Eritrea who land in Italy and...
RYAN LUCAS, Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian rebels launched an offensive Tuesday against a major government-held city in the country’s northwest, shelling the outskirts and...
ANKARA, Turkey (Reuters)—Turkey and the United States aim to finalize an agreement on equipping and training moderate Syrian rebels this month, a senior foreign ministry...
(Reuters) – One million people have been wounded during Syria‘s civil war and diseases are spreading as regular supplies of medicine fail to reach patients, the...
ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press SADIE GURMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As it looks to expand its territorial base across broad swaths of Iraq and Syria,...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is authorizing the U.S. military to deploy up to 1,500 more troops to Iraq as part of the mission...
(Reuters) – When lawmakers return to Washington after Tuesday’s congressional elections they will resume a debate they began with some reluctance last month on the...
ANKARA, Turkey (The Washington Post) — The increasingly hostile divergence of views between Turkey and the United States over Syria is testing the durability of their...
(The Washington Post) – In a remarkable new video released by the Islamic State militants, British hostage John Cantlie gives a tour of the Syrian...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist It is very unsettling to hear various politicians suggest the need for U.S. troops to be redeployed to Iraq and...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist During the past six years, some Republicans and conservatives have described President Obama and his administration as totally incompetent. I have...
Ken Dilanian, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Sunday gave voice to the conundrum at the heart of his Syria policy, acknowledging...
Tony Capaccio, BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK WASHINGTON (Businessweek.com)—Reaction was swift after a top Pentagon official’s testimony to Congress yesterday that he would support sending U.S. advisers to...
by Askia Muhammad Special to the NNPA from The Final Call ‘Ironically, Mr. Obama’s most outspoken critics—Republican Senators John McCain (Ariz.) and Lindsey Graham (S.C.)—were...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist President Obama says he is going to take ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) out. I wonder how many...
