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'Utterly Unacceptable and Shameful': Anger Erupts Over Biden Plan to Keep Trump-Era Refugee Cap

"Biden is turning his back on tens of thousands of refugees around the world who have been approved to come to the United States."
Jake Johnson, staff writer ·
A refugee camp near Mytilene, Greece on September 20, 2020.
Former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince is accused of illegally transferring weapons to Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar. (Photo: The Oxford Union/REX Shutterstock)

Report of Illegal $80 Million Arms Transfer by Erik Prince to Libyan Warlord Raises Question of Who's Backing Former Blackwater CEO

Brett Wilkins, staff writer ·

An injured Yemeni child and a man receive treatment at a hospital, following an explosion at a wedding hall during the night, in the Yemeni Red Sea city of Hudeida, on January 2, 2021. - Five women were killed when a projectile exploded at a New Year's Day wedding party in Hodeida, the latest atrocity in the war-torn nation. The government and Huthi rebels blamed each other for the Friday night attack near Hodeida's airport, a frontline between their forces on the edge of the key Huthi-held port. (Photo by

President Biden Needs to Step Up Efforts to Stop the War in Yemen by Ending All Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia

Abdi Nor Iftin ·

Afghan journalist Rahmatullah Nekzad was shot dead while on his way to mosque in Ghazni, Afghanistan on December 21, 2020. (Photo: AFP/Getty Images)

Number of Journalists Murdered in Retaliation for Their Work More Than Doubled in 2020: Report

Brett Wilkins, staff writer ·

Amid the coronavirus pandemic, locusts move through the Arabian Peninsula in Dhamar, Yemen on June 7, 2020. (Photo: Mohammed Hamoud/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

UN Warns New Wave of Locust Swarms Threatens Food Security of Millions in East Africa

Jessica Corbett, staff writer ·

Ilhan Omar Demands Pentagon Acknowledge, Compensate US Drone Strike Victims 'Illegally Killed' in Somalia

Congresswoman's call, says one rights advocate, "is an important acknowledgment that civilians unlawfully harmed have a right to redress."

Eoin Higgins, staff writer ·

An internally displaced woman voluntarily returning to her home in Bentiu, South Sudan, is being checked for fever. (Photo: United Nations/Isaac Billy)

Leaders Must Act to Protect Refugees and Internally Displaced People in Africa

The window of opportunity for containment is shutting fast. We must work together quickly to stop the spread of Covid-19 among the continent's most vulnerable populations.

Pauline Muchina ·

A 2019 coalition study found that U.S.-led forces in Iraq and Syria killed 1,302 people, but Amnesty International disputed that number as too low.

Critics Charge Pentagon 'Still Undercounting' Civilians Killed by US Military Overseas

"The difficult work of credibly investigating the aftermath of operations is the responsibility of the governments who engage in lethal actions."

Jessica Corbett, staff writer ·

Still, historically speaking, killing Afghans or Iraqis or Syrians or Yemenis or Somalis has always been one thing, but Americans? That’s another story entirely, no? (Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

The Killer-in-Chief

In Covid-19 America, we are all now potential Suleimanis.

Tom Engelhardt ·

Locust nymphs aggregated on the ground at a hatch site near Isiolo town in eastern Kenya on Feb. 25, 2020

'Unprecedented Threat' for East Africa as Larger Second Wave of Locust Crisis Arrives Amid Pandemic

As the coronavirus outbreak delays efforts to eradicate the pests, experts warn locust swarms could grow 20-fold.

Jessica Corbett, staff writer ·

Locusts swarm from ground vegetation

'A Scourge of Biblical Proportions': UN Leaders Sound Alarm on East Africa Locust Crisis in Call for Global Response

The worst outbreak in decades has devastated crops across a region already enduring food insecurity, conflict, and climate impacts.

Jessica Corbett, staff writer ·

locust swarm

Climate-Crisis Fueled Locust Swarms Pose 'Unprecedented Threat to Food Security and Livelihoods' in East Africa

The region's worst outbreak in decades has brought hundreds of millions of crop-devouring bugs to Somalia, Ethiopia, and Kenya.

Jessica Corbett, staff writer ·

After more than 18 years of war with neither end nor victory in sight, says Tom Engelhardt, absolute failure is the "new success" as Pentagon budgets and arms makers' profits soar while the military-industrial complex enjoys the bounty of endless conflict and blood further than the eye can see. (Photo: Jeff Owens / EyeEm / iStock via Getty Images)

The Global War of Error

No, that's not a typo.

Tom Engelhardt ·

A US soldier stands by an armored vehicle during a patrol of the northern countryside of the northeastern Syrian town of al-Malikiyah (Derik) at the border with Turkey, on November 3, 2019.

Proposed Withdrawal of US Troops in Syria

Ron Forthofer ·

Despite taking some steps to address the issue of child soldiers, the TIP states that the South Sudanese government “continued to use and recruit child soldiers… at times by force,” and did not fully implement its own action plan to demobilize children from security forces. (Photo: Charles Lomodong/AFP via Getty Images)

For 9th Straight Year, US Grants Waivers to Countries Violating Anti-Child Soldier Law

The White House recently announced the US was granting full or partial waivers to the Child Soldiers Prevention Act (CSPA) to Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Iraq, Mali, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen.

Brett Wilkins, staff writer ·