Tag: Lebanon
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Yemen Endures: Saudi and Iran’s Proxy War in ‘The Happy Land’
A Rebel Group Backed By Iran, A Government Backed By Saudi Arabia, A President Struggling to Survive…. all this at the cost of human lives In Yemen. Before we talk about the ongoing Yemen civil war, in which 65,000 lives have been lost since 2015, it is imperative to understand the difference between a war…
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Who’s Children Are They Anyway: Kurds Divided Over Children Born of Islamic State Rape
Children of women raped by ISIL men will not be accepted into Yazidi community, declares the sect’s faith leaders. Kurdish leaders claim that the war with IS (Islamic State) is over, but is it? Although, IS has left the Kurdish area but has left behind a conflict for Yazidi women. The Supreme Yazidi Spiritual…
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Bombs, Shrapnel and Books: Syria’s Secret Library
In a country totally devastated by 9 years of war, hardly anyone would want to save a library while defending last inch of their territory from Pro-Assad Forces. Syria, now into its ninth year of civil war has witnessed 191,369 deaths (Data till 2014) and 10.9 million Syrians, or almost half the population, has been…
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