Kenneth Roth is the executive director of Human Rights Watch, one of the world’s leading international human rights organizations, which...

While the Arab Spring uprisings ignited simmering discontent across many nations in the Middle East, Western media was quick to celebrate...

The following are two separate interviews presenting contrasting opinions on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, commonly known as...

Stacie Blake is the Director of Government and Community Relations for the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants. She has...

Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are people who have been forced to leave their home because of conflict, violence, human rights...

After more than four years of violence, the Syrian Civil War is as much of a proxy struggle between major international actors as it is...

Since January, an estimated 710,000 migrants and refugees have entered the European Union. This number is about two and a half times the...

The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is a global organization, enlisting followers from around the world to join its fight in...

Amidst the overthrow of governments in Tunisia and Egypt in 2011, Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies...

With a KGB history, a penchant for repressing criticism at home, and a growing tendency for military aggression abroad, Russia’s...

In his historic address to Congress in September, Pope Francis likened the magnitude of the current refugee crisis to that of World War...

On August 29 and 30, to commemorate a moment of national freedom, an open-air auditorium in Turkey’s capital hosted a magical encounter...

The Syrian civil war has been marked by crimes against humanity so undeniable that they could have leapt into existence from a textbook,...

Aid distribution in Lebanon fluctuates drastically along the lines of sectarian division. Influential parties such as Michael Aoun’s...

ISIS has become a recent focus for the United States and major media outlets in the recent weeks. Brown Political Review’s Media Team...

Exaggeration serves no purpose when it comes to the Syrian crisis. From horrifying tales of rebel extremists eating hearts of dead men to...

As the Syrian civil war approaches its fourth year, prospects for peace are increasingly dim. Western-led negotiations have proved...

I was curious yesterday why CNN and the Wall Street Journal were ostensibly publishing restaurant recommendations when I repeatedly read,...

Russia’s annexation of Crimea, unrest in Ukraine and subsequent narratives of a “New Cold War” bring new hopes and worries to leaders in...

Two weeks ago I published a controversial statement that the Lebanese-Syrian hostage exchange signaled the end of the Syrian civil war....