Scenes from Cizre, SE Turkey, where YDG-H claim self rule amidst the conflict between PKK & Turkish state @vicenews pic.twitter.com/cr0H8vRifr Earlier in the summer, a ceasefire between Turkey and Kurdish militants collapsed after a group close to PKK rebels shot dead two police officers.
In 1820, one Stephen Freeman wrote a dense treatise in which he criticized the notion that human behavior—seemingly manifest "amidst the conflicting, boisterous, unreasonable wills of men, all acting, as they feel they do, their various parts with complete freedom of choice"—somehow existed outside the domain of cause and effect.
Corine Wegener, cultural heritage preservation officer for the US Smithsonian Institution, said Syria required support from the international community to help "mitigate and prevent damage to cultural heritage" amidst the conflict.
For it to matter, we have to have the guts to talk about the male experience with our own voices, digging beyond the discomfort to the truth of what it means to be a man amidst all the conflicting expectations and confusion about what is really important at the end of the day.
Five years into the civil war in Syria, the U.S. is seeking to promote a peaceful resolution to the conflict amidst a rapidly changing situation on the ground, where the two dominant belligerents are the murderous Assad regime on the one hand and the apocalyptic and genocidal Islamic State of Syria and the Levant (ISIL) on the other.
On Thursday, the Army vice-chief of staff tapped to run the war, General John "JC" Campbell, will testify to the Senate about his plans for managing the remainder of US involvement in the conflict – now amidst deep and rapidly unfolding uncertainty about who will become the Afghan president, and how.
However a quality education amidst the ongoing conflict remains an uphill struggle for many Iraqi families, and more needs to be done to support their efforts.
Entitled Maluku, Kobaran Cintaku (Maluku, Flame of My Love), the novel is about the love of a Christian woman and Muslim man set amidst the Maluku sectarian conflict; it delves into the causes of the conflict, including poverty and provocation by the armed forces.
The list also includes Zadie Smith's debut novel White Teeth, Jeffrey Eugenides' tale of hermaphrodite Calliope Stephanides, Middlesex, Ian McEwan's Atonement, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun, set amidst the Biafra conflict.
Amidst the worsening conflict with Russian-backed separatists in the east, leftist groups have become deeply divided.
I watched families try to keep it together (and the fathers of Aleppo working to disrupt and shut down ISIS in their own way) amidst the constant conflict.
