DEATH IN AL GHAYIL
Women and Children in Yemeni Village Recall Horror of Trump’s “Highly Successful” SEAL Raid
ON JANUARY 29, 5-year-old Sinan al Ameri was asleep with his mother, his aunt, and 12 other children in a one-room stone hut typical of poor rural villages in the highlands of Yemen. A little after 1 a.m., the women and children awoke to the sound of a gunfight erupting a few hundred feet away. Roughly 30 members of Navy SEAL Team 6 were storming the eastern hillside of the remote settlement.
According to residents of the village of al Ghayil, in Yemen’s al Bayda province, the first to die in the assault was 13-year-old Nasser al Dhahab. The house of his uncle, Sheikh Abdulraouf al Dhahab, and the building behind it, the home of 65-year-old Abdallah al Ameri and his son Mohammed al Ameri, 38, appeared to be the targets of the U.S. forces, who called in air support as they were pinned down in a nearly hourlong firefight.
Netherlands bars Turkish ministers as 'Nazi remnant' dispute escalates
Riot police clash with Turkish ex-pats after members of the Erdoğan government are prevented from campaigning among supporters
The Netherlands has barred Turkish ministers from speaking in Rotterdam in a row over Ankara’s political campaigning among emigres, leading President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to brand its fellow Nato member a “Nazi remnant”.
The dispute escalated into a major diplomatic incident on Saturday night when Turkey’s family minister was prevented by police from entering her country’s consulate in Rotterdam. Hundreds of protesters waving Turkish flags gathered outside, demanding to see the minister.
Dutch police used dogs and water cannon early on Sunday to disperse the crowd, which threw bottles and stones. Several demonstrators were beaten by police with batons, a witness said. They carried out charges on horseback, while officers advanced on foot with shields and armoured vans.
Syrian children tell harrowing stories of death and destruction as trauma crisis threatens country's future
Thousands of children damaged by 'toxic stress' as brutal conflict enters sixth year
As the Syrian civil war enters its sixth year of bloodshed, thousands of children are losing their parents, their education and their homes.
Many remember nothing before the brutal conflict, which is leaving invisible scars on those fleeing fighting, bombardment and the atrocities committed by Isis.
A study by Save the Children warns that the situation was at a “tipping point” for mental health, with drastic intervention needed to help the youngest and most vulnerable Syrians who will be charged with rebuilding the country.
Gangster's ParadiseAssad's Control Erodes as Warlords Gain Upper Hand
Bashar Assad's power over the areas of Syria under government control is slipping. Armed militias are growing stronger and the country's president can do nothing to stop them.
On a cool morning, an elderly man is standing at his espresso machine on a street in eastern Aleppo. It's shortly after 8 a.m., and this part of the city -- destroyed in the war and reconquered by the regime in December -- is waking up. Green grocers arrive and set out their boxes of produce on the rubble piled in front of their stores. Others are shoveling debris from the roads.
The name of the man with the espresso machine must go unmentioned, otherwise he would soon be dead. A fire is burning in a metal drum next to his improvised coffee counter, and he is using it to periodically warm his hands. Several weeks ago, just after the neighborhood was retaken, he returned to the small workshop where he had run a motorcycle repair shop -- but it was already too late. He immediately saw that someone had shot open the lock.
DRC entrepreneurs fight unemployment with local cooking
Unemployment is an almost insurmountable hurdle for young people in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It’s hard to find reliable unemployment rates, but the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development estimates that underemployment is at 58 percent. DR Congo came in 176 out of 187 countries on the UN Human Development Index in 2015.
But one group of young people in Goma, eastern DR Congo, has taken matters into their own hands. After two years of looking for work, Franck Bulonza started a business with two friends delivering home-cooked lunches to people’s homes and workplaces.
But one group of young people in Goma, eastern DR Congo, has taken matters into their own hands. After two years of looking for work, Franck Bulonza started a business with two friends delivering home-cooked lunches to people’s homes and workplaces.
‘I can’t just let myself do nothing’
How Fukushima gave rise to a new anti-racism movement
The Fukushima disaster of 2011 ignited an anti-racism resistance movement in Japan to defend minorities such as Koreans.
Vivian Shaw
Vivian Shaw is a sociologist who studies race, politics, and culture.
In the low light of a pop-up restaurant in Ebisu, I sit across from Sabako as she takes pictures of the two onigiri (rice balls) that have just arrived at our table.
Sabako, who spoke to me under a pseudonym, is friends with the chef, a fellow activist who caters at anti-racism, LGBT, and music events in Tokyo. She takes a few minutes to upload the photos to Twitter using #OnigiriAction. Activists had been using this hashtag for several days in late November 2016 to raise awareness of poverty and food insecurity throughout Japan.
Sabako is one of the many activists who took to the streets and social media in the aftermath of Japan's mega-disaster of a 9.0 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear reactor meltdowns on March 11, 2011.
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