Global Security
US National Security Council spokesman on heightened tensions between Iran and Israel: ‘We don’t want to see this conflict widen and deepen’
Israel has called on dozens of nations to impose new sanctions on Iran’s missile program, which the US has agreed to do in the coming days. The move comes days after Tehran launched, for the first time ever, an aerial attack from its soil directly at Israel. Iran’s foreign minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, said through an […]
Residents in northeastern Syria react to recent attacks on US bases
About 900 American forces stationed in Northeast Syria have been attacked by militia forces in neighboring Iraq. The Americans act as a deterrence against ISIS and Turkey, both of which consider the Kurds in northeast Syria as their enemy. The residents in this area are on edge about the recent militia attacks and the possibility of a US withdrawal.
A tale of two children’s homes in Uganda
This week, The World’s Africa correspondent Halima Gikandi has been bringing us stories about the dark side of orphanages, or children’s homes, in Uganda. But things aren’t all bad. As Gikandi reports, some organizations, like Ekisa Ministries, are doing things the right way.
