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AR News Channel: CJTF War On Terror Updates Via Baghdad

Get your news straight from the source. This playlist contains Pentagon press briefings from U.S.-led Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve via teleconference from Baghdad, Iraq. Military spokesperson provides updates on their active operations to defeat [continue reading].

(18+) Yemen: World Watches As UN Allows Saudi Arabia To Commit Genocide

Many children in the street killed from a Saudi-led airstrike on a Yemen refugee camp.

The United Nations envoy facilitating peace talks on Yemen announced that as the discussions wind down for a one-month break, the process will enter a “new phase,” during which “the focus will be on working with each side separately to crystalize precise technical [continue reading].

Documentary: VICE – Flint Water Crisis And Libya On The Brink

What happened to the water supply in Flint? The state of Michigan switched Flint’s water supply in 2011 from Lake Huron to the notoriously filthy Flint River. The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality failed to treat the corrosive water, and it ate into the [continue reading].

Documentary: VICE – Yemen: The Enemy of My Enemy

A Yemeni army officer holds up his AK-47 during anti-government protests earlier this week. The Foreign Office said only a 'small core' of staff will remain in the country, and it urged other British nationals to leave (AP)

“In 2009, when he saw airplanes crossing over the border from Saudi Arabia, Mohammed Jubran Abu Halah was 13 years old. The aircraft started dropping bombs over Saddah, a largely agricultural area in the north of Sa’dah province. Although he says that there was no [continue reading].

Yemen: A Country’s Crisis Outlined In Five Maps

Geopolitics: Today's Yemen In One Map. Yemeni Civil War: The Territorial Control as of March 1st, 2016. In March, the Yemen’s embattled president Hadi fled Yemen by sea and arrives in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, as Saudi Arabia and its allies launch military operations in Yemen to defend Hadi’s government.

There is a new online resource that is putting the world news on the map; The World on The Map is a cartographic project aiming to put the world news on the map for a better understanding of current events, historical facts, geopolitical challenges and cultural issues in the [continue reading].

Photos: Tell Stories Of Coping And Resilience In Yemen

A group of children photographed while exploring the empty streets

The images most often associated with Yemen today are those of war, poverty and dire humanitarian crises. Yemeni photographer Thana Faroq, who is based in Sana’a, set out to prove that life exists beyond the war. On her Facebook page ‘Everyday Yemen‘, she [continue reading].

Africa: United Nations Pressured to Help End Burundi Violence

A Burundian soldier walks infront of residents during a demonstration against the Rwandan government in Burundi's capital Bujumbura, Feb. 20, 2016.

When U.N. Security Council envoys flew to Burundi in January to try to end months of violence, the central African country’s leader flatly rejected their offer of help and hundreds protested against what they saw as meddling. A month later, with fears of a new ethnic [continue reading].

South Sudan: At Least 57 Children Were Massacred In October

A young boy, injured while fleeing from clashes, rests at a medical clinic inside the United Nations compound on the outskirts of the capital Juba in South Sudan. UN diplomats said as many as 500 people have been killed in violence that is believed to be largely along ethnic lines. (Hakim George/Reuters)

The United Nations has reported massacre of children in South Sudan’s persisting civil war despite public announcements of political deals aimed at ending the nearly two-year-old conflict. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) stated in a report [continue reading].

Video Report: Yemen Humanitarian Situation In 90 Seconds

Nawal Al-Maghafi breaks down the facts of Yemen’s deteriorating humanitarian situation in a 90-second video. The conflict in Yemen started in March, after Houthi fighters seized the capital Sanaa from government control. Neighbouring Gulf states, led by Saudi Arabia, then [continue reading].

Syria: Coalition Forces Target Armed Opposition Groups

246 individuals were killed as a result including 243 civilians. International Coalition Forces Targets Armed Opposition Groups for the Third Time. SNHR previously issued eight reports that documented civilian’s death by the international coalition forces since 23 September [continue reading].

Syria: Civilian Death Toll Rises as Assad Escalates War

More than 200,000 people have been killed in the four-and-a-half-year Syrian civil war. The constant violence has forced more than four million to flee the country, fueling a refugee crisis in the Middle East and Europe. The country is so dangerous that a definitive tally of [continue reading].