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Walking into the Ntarama Church outside Kigali and witnessing the scenes of mass slaughter that are all around you, I instantly began to gag and ran outside lest I be sick in consecrated ground. I walked in several more times

(AP) US prepares new sanctions on Assad regimeBy MATTHEW LEEAssociated PressACCRA, GhanaThe Obama administration is readying new sanctions on Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime and its allies as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton heads to Turkey for weekend

There was another in a series of cross-border attacks from Egypt into Israel Sunday evening, where the borders of Israel, Egypt and Gaza converge. Gunmen in SUV’s with mounted machine guns first attacked a military installation on the Egyptian side

According to AP reports, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad just made his first television appearance in nearly three weeks. The appearance was designed to show “solidarity with an Iranian envoy,” and it comes as the U.S. is pressing all its allies to

As Syrian President Bashar al-Assad wages a blood-drenched campaign for survival, Washington is stepping up plans for the day after he falls, colored by costly lessons of Iraq’s implosion in 2003. Senior US officials do not know how long Assad

For a time, the Obama administration made it clear they didn’t have a horse in the race as far as Syria was concerned. President Obama opposed Senator John McCain’s plan to provide arms to the Syrian opposition, yet he also

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Iran pledges undying support for Syria’s al-Assad regime Ankara strongly condemns Iran’s threats against Turkey Greece and Israel form a ‘strategic’ relationship Plans for military action in Mali reflect change in Tuareg alliances Iran

I always promised myself that if I ever ran for public office I would highlight anti-genocide legislation as one of the principal planks of my platform. As such, I’m traveling to Rwanda this week where I will visit the main

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Syria’s Prime Minister defects to the opposition Egypt vows crackdown on ‘infidels’ in massacre on Israeli border Egypt closes the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt North/South split in Europe deepens Greece detains 6,000

(AP) Syrian prime minister defects, flees to JordanBy ZEINA KARAM and JAMAL HALABYAssociated PressBEIRUTSyria’s prime minister defected and fled to neighboring Jordan, a Jordanian official and a rebel spokesman said Monday, evidence that the cracks in President Bashar’s Assad’s regime

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Kidnapped Iranian ‘tourists’ in Syria may be Revolutionary Guards Relationship between Islamist radicals in Caucasus and Central Asia Wisconsin’s ‘domestic terrorism’ in Sikh temple raises concerns for Sikhs, Muslims and Hindus China makes armed

Throughout the conflict between the Syrian government and opposition forces, the Russians have supported Bashar al-Assad’s government. To that end, they’ve sent weaponry and warships to bolster President Bashar al-Assad’s efforts, and they’ve stood against U.N. sanctions that could weaken

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Syrian regime pleads with Russia for economic aid Russia sending three naval vessels and 360 marines to Syria U.S. and China issue belligerent statements on South China Sea Seven Minutes of Terror on Sunday

The arming of Syria’s rebels will have “very bad implications in the region,” Iran’s Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi said on Saturday, according to state television. He added that “the region will face a major crisis if foreign forces, currently (covertly)

Barack Obama is pulling his usual routine of leading from behind, this time in Syria. The Obama Administration has decided to offer the Syrian rebels everything but arms, even though they are getting slaughtered by the thousands. Even with Kofi

By PAUL SCHEMMAssociated PressBEIRUTIn a brazen daylight kidnapping, gunmen snatched a bus filled with 48 Iranian pilgrims from a Damascus suburb Saturday as they headed to visit a shrine holy to Shiites, reported Iranian state television. The abduction was the

The UN, which had been considering a resolution that demanded Syrian President Bashar Assad resign, was watered down after Arab countries found that they couldn’t muster more than 100 votes in support of their resolution, which would indicate the resolution

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday in a speech to Arab ambassadors that the rectification of the world will come when Israel is annihilated.  In 1979, Ayatollah Khomeini established “Qods Day” (Jerusalem Day) and this year Ahmadinejad used the event

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Kofi Annan resigns in failure as Syria envoy Investors and banksters disappointed again, this time by ECB The ‘mini flash crash’ software bug will be expensive China restricts Ramadan fasting for Uighurs in Xinjiang

Reuters is reporting that President Obama has signed a “secret order” authorizing “U.S. support for rebels seeking to depose Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.” The order allows the CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies to join the fray and take part in his

By DAVID STRINGER and TIM REYNOLDSAssociated PressLONDONThey held talks, then it ended in a fight. Prime Minister David Cameron and Russian President Vladimir Putin showed up Thursday at the Olympic judo competition after meeting in central London on Syria and

By PETER JAMES SPIELMANNAssociated PressUNITED NATIONSArab countries have dropped a demand that Syrian President Bashar Assad resign in the latest draft of a symbolic U.N. General Assembly resolution that faces a Friday vote. The weakening of the resolution, which is

By JOHN HEILPRINAssociated PressGENEVAKofi Annan said Thursday he will step down from his high-profile role as special envoy for Syria at the end of the month, delivering blistering criticism of world powers’ failure to unite over the country’s escalating violence.

There seems to be a lack of clarity in the foreign policy apparatus of the Obama administration. As a result, the U.S. is officially funding the Syrian opposition via the Free Syrian Army, expecting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to either vacate the