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UN Presents New Syrian Plan; US Sticks to Stance that Assad Must Go in Syria

by Joshua Spurlock • August 3, 2015 • 0 Comments

The latest United Nations envoy covering the Syrian civil war has a new initiative in mind to try to resolve the brutal conflict that has killed at least 250,000 people according to the UN News Centre. But one thing hasn’t…

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Palestinian Authority Rearranges Government as Hamas Cries Coup

by Joshua Spurlock • August 2, 2015 • 0 Comments

The Palestinian Authority, led by President Mahmoud Abbas, is supposedly trying to improve efforts to complete the reunification process with Hamas by reshuffling ministers in the Palestinian government’s cabinet, according to the Ma’an News Agency. The only problem is that…

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Peace and Conflict

ISIS Recruits Replacing Losses, But US Still Claiming ‘Progress’ in Fight

by Joshua Spurlock • August 2, 2015 • 0 Comments

ISIS has managed to replace the number of operatives killed in the fight with the US-led coalition according to USA Today, but a US military official is pointing to other factors in arguing the fight is succeeding in beating back…

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Jordanian King Appeases Everyone… Except Israel

by Joshua Spurlock • July 30, 2015 • 0 Comments

Jordan and Israel have a long-standing peace treaty, but that doesn’t make them friends. That was on full display on Friday as Jordan’s King tried to mend ties with nearly every nation in the Middle East, even Iran, but only…

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News-Drash, Religious Life

Oldest Found Copy of Lamentations Displayed in Jerusalem on Tragic Fast Day

by Joshua Spurlock • July 26, 2015 • 0 Comments

Thousands of years after the saddest book of the Bible, Lamentations, mourned the destruction of Jerusalem, a 2,000-year-old scroll of the book was made available for Jerusalemites to see on the day traditionally set aside to read the tragic text.…

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Assad Optimistic on Army while Explaining Why ‘Terrorists’ Claimed Territory

by Joshua Spurlock • July 26, 2015 • 0 Comments

Syria’s army isn’t capable of controlling the entire country right now in their civil war, but that doesn’t mean the Syrian regime is conceding defeat or that breaking up the country into various states is a viable option. President Bashar…

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