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Scott Worden discusses the the U.S. killing of Taliban chief Mullah Mansour with Tim Farley on POTUS radio.
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Scott Worden discusses the the U.S. killing of Taliban chief Mullah Mansour with Tim Farley on POTUS radio.
The UN will hold its first ever-humanitarian summit Monday. New challenges in global aid are forcing groups to rethink how to meet changing needs. This is Part 3 of a four-part series.
The U.S. military launched a drone strike against Taliban leader Akhtar Mohammad Mansour on Saturday, the Pentagon said, dealing a potential blow to the group whose insurgent assaults pose a major obstacle to U.S. hopes for ending the war in Afghanistan.
The U.S. military conducted an airstrike inside Pakistan that likely killed Mullah Akhtar Mansour, the leader of the Taliban in Afghanistan, amounting to a potentially significant blow to a militant group that has become resurgent recently against Afghan and coalition forces, U.S. officials said Saturday.
Can the Catholic Church put an end to centuries of sanctioning war, and start promoting peace instead?
Conflicted, beset with issues as to his identity, unsure of his place in the world. Muslim masculinity is in a state of crisis. Honor killings. Political violence. Extremism. Domestic abuse. Grooming. Every touchpaper possible that can be lit, has been lit. Some are aiding and abetting this crisis, while with little fanfare, a lone few Muslim leaders are attempting to take it on. If masculinity is in crisis, the masculinity of the Muslim man is really feeling the heat.
Former U.S. Chief of Mission in Myanmar Priscilla Clapp told VOA that while Washington is restructuring the remaining financial sanctions, individuals and entities should be targeted to promote better behavior. "There is still a need for some form of sanctions against the military, and military elements in the economy because the military has too much control over the economy in the country," she said.
The US removed a number of Myanmar companies and banks from its sanctions list on Tuesday but kept the bulk of its remaining measures in place despite the country’s landmark change in government.
A rising tide of intolerance in the Middle East threatens minority faith communities with cultural extinction, said speakers at a May 10 lecture in New York. Religious minorities are the most seriously impacted among the millions who have fled their homes to escape violence and the percentage of Christians in the region has dropped to an all-time low, panelists said.
Mustafa Badreddine, a cocky Lebanese bomb maker and one of the architects of Islamic terrorism, was buried Friday. He was Hezbollah’s top military commander, and, along with his brother-in-law Imad Mughniyah, who died in 2008, masterminded one of the longest-running sprees of violence—bombings, hostage-takings, assassinations, and airplane hijackings—in the Middle East.