Great Power betrayal to re-unite Syrian revolution?
Now abandoned by all the Great Powers, Syria’s popular resistance is again emphasizing internal unity against the Assad dictatorship, bridging Arab and Kurdish forces.
Now abandoned by all the Great Powers, Syria’s popular resistance is again emphasizing internal unity against the Assad dictatorship, bridging Arab and Kurdish forces.
As Turkey turns its warplanes on the autonomous Kurds of northern Syria, state media release propaganda maps showing claims to former Ottoman lands in Syria and Iraq alike.
The UNESCO resolution against Israel's political archaeology at the Temple Mount counter-productively refered to the site only by its Islamic name, the Ḥaram al-Sharif.
Peru launched its first satellite into space this month, to monitor illegal mining, logging and other extractive activities in the country's vast stretch of the Amazon rainforest.
Following a trial lasting seven years and four months, a court in Peru's Amazonas region absolved 52 indigenous leaders in charges related to the 2009 Bagua massacre.
Ahwazi Arab farmers in Iran's Khuzestan province protested outside the state sugar refinery to oppose the company's confiscation of 1,000 hectares of agricultural land.
On Indigenous People's Day, President Tsai Ing-wen issued a formal apology to Taiwan's aboriginal peoples for centuries of oppression, and outlined her policies on reconciliation.
Algeria's Berber community took to the streets to commemorate the 1980 "Berber Spring" uprising and demand greater cultural rights—or actual independence.
The family of Tashi Wangchuk, an advocate for Tibetan language rights in Qinghai province, reports that the has "disappeared" since a New York Times story on his efforts.
Overshadowed by the greater carnage across the border in Syria, Turkey's east is exploding into full-scale war—with Kurdish districts under siege from military forces.
Over 40 Indian writers have returned their awards to the National Academy of Letters in protest of a wave of deadly attacks on secularist and rationalist writers and activists.
The National Indigenous Organization of Colombia warned the Inter-American Human Rights Commission that 65 the country's indigenous groups risk cultural or physical "extinction."