The recent paralysis in Washington underscores the profound risk of managing from crisis to crisis. But even though the shutdown and the debt-ceiling battle are barely behind us, there’s another crisis in the offing: The next round of automatic budget cuts mandated under sequestration, and the devastating economic consequences they will bring.
Read MoreInternational inspectors have destroyed in four weeks nearly all the equipment used by Syria to prepare munitions for chemical warfare, dramatically reducing the country’s ability to launch a large-scale attack similar to the one that killed more than 1,000 Syrians in August, U.S. and European officials said.
Read Moreby Anna Borshchevskaya On October 29, 2013, UN Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Religion Heiner Bielefeldt will present his annual report to the United Nations. On the heels of this event, The Venn Institute, Jubilee Campaign, International Christian Response, and International Christian Voice co-sponsored a panel discussion in New York City on October 28, The Persecution…
Read MoreREYHANLI, Turkey — While the emergence of al-Qaeda’s Islamic State of Iraq and Syria as a major force in the Syrian civil war has caused deep concern for many rebels, one group’s fighters claim its presence has given them a popularity boost.
Read MoreOn October 17, Saudi Arabia was elected by the United Nations General Assembly to a nonpermanent seat on the Security Council. The next day, Riyadh made a stunning announcement: It was declining the seat, because of the council’s longstanding “inability to perform its duties and responsibilities” due to “the manner, mechanisms of action and double…
Read MoreSequestration may not be the worst-case scenario for Pentagon budgets — defense spending could drop even lower in the next decade, a new report argues.
Read MoreIN THIS ISSUE: AIC Tunis Launches “The Leader” Competition, Salute to Ramadan in Boston, and introducing AIC’s newly redesigned website. Click here to read the newsletter.
Read MoreWASHINGTON — The top House Armed Services Committee Democrat on Thursday applauded a White House plan to shift America’s armed drone program from the CIA to the Pentagon.
Read MoreCAIRO — A draft law that would strictly regulate street protests in Egypt is drawing fierce criticism from rights groups and exposing fresh cracks in the broad coalition that backed the military coup against President Mohamed Morsi in July.
Read MoreThe struggle for individual rights in the Middle East student essay contest
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