Yemen’s civil war has accelerated the collapse of a fragmented Arab state, but don’t hold your breath for international action to mitigate war horrors. A Yemeni woman strokes the arm of her malnourished infant, Sanaa, Yemen, 27 November 2014. (EPA/Yahya...
By Nelson Graves The Islamic State movement will probably be destroyed militarily in the next year, but the roots of the radical group will survive unless Arab regimes promote social justice and economic growth. That was one of the key messages that Rami Khouri, an...
By Nelson Graves News-Decoder has expanded its international footprint and established a new teaching partnership as we build a community of young people around the world who are keen to tackle the most important global issues. Five academic institutions in three...
By Nelson Graves More than 4,400 Americans have been killed in Iraq since 2003. But most young people educated at U.S. universities and colleges cannot find Iraq on a map of the Middle East. Fewer than one third of the respondents in a poll of young people...
Turkey’s first ground intervention in Syria’s war aims to prevent an independent state for Kurds and changes the dynamics in the five-year-old conflict. A child waves toward Turkish troops heading to the Syrian border, Karkamis, Turkey, 26 August 2016. (AP...