Author: Eva Forslund

With difficulty, UN Chief Ban Ki-Moon is aiming for a truce in Yemen. “I’m urging them that, particularly during this Ramadan — which is a period for peace for people, and praying for peace — they must stop,” Ki-Moon told reporters: UN Chief Opens Yemen Talks (Al Jazeera) Critics argue “that the government’s promotion of…

The terrorist group Boko Haram’s suicide bombings in Maiduguri, Nigeria, have recently increased, now using women and girls to do the bombings… Women Are Dying In ‘Suicide’ Attacks in Nigeria as Boko Haram Steps Up Insurgency (Huffington Post) …Meanwhile, President Buhari has set up a joint military force along with Nigeria’s neighboring countries to fight Boko…

In the prospect of a new President in 2017, Ian Bremmer calls for a new approach to US Foreign Policy, preferably a less interventionist one – the Independent America approach … 3 American Foreign Policy Options That 2016 Presidential Candidates Need to Choose Between (Huffington Post) … but the Obama administration sends 450 additional troops to…

Zach Hunt asks Christians to imagine how they would feel were people to use the actions of a few extremist to represent the whole faith: The Duggars Have a Lot to Teach the Church About Islam (The Huffington Post) The ban has sparked debate nationally and internationally. Among the skeptics of the ban is Ayesha Akhtar: “’As much…