Middle East

Brazen Smuggling Business Profiting From Fleeing African Migrants

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By: Charmaine Santos Libyan militias, tribesmen, and bandits are responsible for the deaths of over 1,000 Italy-bound migrants in the Mediterranean in just the last two weeks. A number of armed groups in Libya are advertising their services of boat transport to people in search for a better life by presenting the economic collapse in … Read more

Excerpt: “ISIL’s Abuse of Women and Girls Must Be Stopped”

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Catherine M. Russell Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues The Huffington Post Washington, DC September 12, 2014   Beheadings are not the only horrors perpetrated by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, known as ISIL. Over the past two months, there has been a tragic stream of reports about thousands of women and girls … Read more