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http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/05/ethiopian-israelis-protest-police-racism-150501043050655.html Ethiopian Jews staged a protest in Israel saying, “In Europe they kill Jews because they’re Jews, here they kill Jews for being black.”

“The United States Navy sent a destroyer toward the Persian Gulf on Tuesday after Iran took control of a Marshall Islands-flagged cargo ship it accused of trespassing in territorial waters, American military officials said.” http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/29/world/middleeast/iran-cargo-ship-us-navy.html?ref=middleeast&_r=0

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/04/150426-islam-muslim-quran-middle-east-ngbootalk/ This article shows the different perspectives of Islam from a National Geographic journalist who spent time with a madrassa-trained scholar and researcher at Oxford University, ShaykhMohammadAkramNadwi. I thought this article was interesting and related to our class because it illustrates … Continue reading →

Masoumeh Ebtekar, the Environmental Protection head in the Iranian administration has been sanctioning the murder of stray dogs across Iran. This has sparked a series of protests in order to combat the practice of morality practice sanctioning these killings in … Continue reading →

“An American and an Italian held hostage by al-Qaida, as well as two Americans working with the terror group, were inadvertently killed by CIA drone strikes early this year, the government revealed Thursday. President Barack Obama said he took full … Continue reading →

Former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy has been sentanced to 20 years in Prison for the torture of protestors in December of 2012. Morsy was Egypt’s first democratically elected president. www.cnn.com/2015/04/21/africa/egypt-mohamed-morsy-verdict

Foreign Affairs Article This article discusses how the population growth outside the fence in Israel could affect future peace agreements. It says that it is not the settlements that are growing,at least not physically, but the populations already living within … Continue reading →

The reliability and accuracy of this story is still to be determined  as no major sources are reporting on the topic. The story claims that a police chief in the Helmand province received documents in which both groups declared Jihad against … Continue reading →

The warships are being deployed to monitor Iranian cargo ships, which may be delivering arms to Houthi rebels. http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/20/politics/iran-united-states-warships-monitoring/  

A US led airstrike in March targeted a convoy of cars in northern Iraq. Unknowingly at the time Abu Bakr al Baghdadi was in one of them. He was severely injured and was thought to be on his deathbed. While … Continue reading →