Tag: terrorism
I hope everybody is having a beautiful first Sunday of Advent! Time to take out the Christmas decoration and start getting in the mood with various festivities of the holiday season! Thank you all for following! I hope you will enjoy this week’s posts. Extention Leave Iran Nuclear Deal Vulnerable to Hard-Liners I am now one of the sceptics who seriously doubt that this deal is ever going to happen. If the Iranians wanted to agree on a deal, they would have by now. Confiscating Passports: Is this a Good Way to Stop Citizens from Joining Jihadists in Syria and…
Happy Sunday, people! Here is what I have for you today: a great international law analysis, some news from the US and Europe, and even a song! I hope you’ll keep reading! Security Council Resolution 2178 (2014): The “Foreign Terrorist Fighter” as an International Legal Person, Part I and Part II Great analysis of SC Resolution 2178 and its legal effect on actual individuals, the ones the resolution addresses as “foreign terrorist fighters”. As Senate Confirms More Career Diplomats, Fate of Obama’s Political Nominees Remains Uncertain Hungary is without a US Ambassador for over a year now. I have posted…
Great animated video by Bruce Riedel of Brookings Institute.
Can you believe it’s already November? Well, it’s been a while since the last time when there was no post between two Sunday Smacks. That happened this week. I recently read a blog post where the author wrote she thought it was quite annoying when bloggers complain about neglecting blogging, while she actually was complaining about just that. I will not do that. I was a little busy this week, that’s all. What have you all been reading about this week? Hope you’ll check out these posts too. Mass Graves, Missing Students, and Mexico’s Long Road to Reform This is something…
seeyathrough-deactivated2014102: This week’s events are a grim reminder that Canada is not immune to the types of terrorist attacks we have seen elsewhere around the world. We are also reminded that attacks on our security personnel and on our institutions of governance are by their very nature attacks on our country, on our values, on our society, on us Canadians as a free and democratic people who embrace human dignity for all. But let there be no misunderstanding: we will not be intimidated. Canada will never be intimidated. In fact, this will lead us to strengthen our resolve and redouble…
Hey everyone! I hope your weekends are going much better than mine. I am still very much under that cold, in fact, no matter what I try, it just gets worse. As a result, my motivation level is below an all time average, all I want to do is sleep all day. I have quite a few promised and unfinished posts here too, so all I can tell you now is once I get myself together, I’ll post everything. In the meantime, here’s a seemingly poor collection of last week’s bes An Umbrella Revolution in Hong Kong? The One Country…
From schoolbooks to Syria: How four British youths turned to jihad Hundreds of young British men are thought to have joined the conflict in Iraq and Syria. CNN’s Karl Penhaul finds out why a group from a southern English town went to war and hears of the tragic consequences.
Security Council high-level summit tackles growing threat of foreign terrorist fighters Responding to an unprecedented flow of foreign terrorist fighters and the growth of facilitation networks fuelling conflicts around the world, on Wednesday the United Nations Security Council adopted a resolution to resolutely address this growing threat to international peace and security. The summit was chaired by US President Obama with all member states’ heads of state or government participating, which in itself signals the importance of the topic. Read the full text of Resolution 2178 (2014) here.
Hey, everybody! Other than the event-of-the-week NATO summit, the Ukrainian truce agreement was the other major news these past days. You will find that neither was covered by my favorite bloggers yet (well, bloggers need days off too…). I am planning to do a post about the NATO summit myself that I didn’t get around to edit yet, so I certainly get that. And just a quick service announcement: I should have announced it in a separate post, but I forgot (well after a near heart attack when I almost deleted the whole blog by accident… yeah, don’t ask…). So,…
Syria Militants Said to Recruit Visiting Americans to Attack U.S. American intelligence and counterterrorism officials said Islamic extremist groups were trying to identify, recruit and train Westerners to carry out attacks when they returned home.
