HE4HER Campaign Launch

Click HERE to see the entire #He4Her photographic essay. “ANYONE CAN GO WATCH A MOVIE,” noted Edina Skaljic, Senior Program Manager and Team Organizer of the 8th Annual Boston Muslim Film Festival. “The real question is: What are you going to do about the issues explored in the film?” In a collective effort, Dominique Maffei,…

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Russia’s Growing Middle East Influence

by Anna Borshchevskaya This post originally appeared in CNN Fareed Zakaria’s Global Public Square Blog Russian President Vladimir Putin achieved perhaps his most desired goal in 2013: He successfully positioned Russia as indispensable to resolving key international problems. And nowhere has his success been more visible than in the Syrian conflict and Iranian nuclear negotiations.…

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Sharp Increase of Foreign Fighters in Syria-ICSR Report

by Anna Borshchevskaya Another recent report –by the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) —highlights the rise in foreign fighters in Syria.   The study is based on analysis of over 1,500 open sources and concludes that up to 11,000 individuals from 74 countries joined the opposition struggle in Syria. From Western Europe in…

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On Suspension of Nonlethal Aid to Syrian Opposition

by Anna Borshchevskaya The U.S. decision to suspend nonlethal aid to opposition fighters in Syria on Friday after Islamic militants seized warehouses which contained aid for moderate fighters reflects, as CNN aptly put it, that the Obama administration policy in Syria “is falling apart at the seams.” This decision is a serious blow to the…

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Russia’s Antiterrorism Measures as Sochi Olympics Approach

by Anna Borshchevskaya This article originally appeared in Operational Environment Watch. Click here to read the article in the original publication, along with the accompanying news excerpts. Russia is gearing up for the February 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, close to the Russian-Georgian border. Preparations include tightening security measures in anticipation of possible terrorist attacks. In…

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