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21 posts tagged "Syria"

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Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice talks foreign policy

Tom Naatz | Friday, October 11, 2019

Former National Security Advisor and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke Thursday evening about global affairs and America’s role in the world at a lecture co-hosted by the Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy and the Notre Dame International Security Center (NDISC). Professor Michael Desch, director of NDISC, moderated the discussion. Rice spoke

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Panelists discuss safety in journalism

Joe Andrews | Tuesday, April 9, 2019

Journalist Itai Anghel said he cannot talk to his mom for longer than one minute without fearing death. “It’s not that I don’t want to talk to [her], but, you know, it becomes dangerous because people try to figure out where I am,” Anghel said. Upon hanging up with her, he said he promptly removes

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United States departure from Syria

BridgeND | Wednesday, January 16, 2019

As we were settling into our winter break, Donald Trump decided that U.S. involvement in the war in Syria should end in 30 days. The decision was rash and made despite vigorous protests from within the administration, Congress and allies. The chaos that followed the announcement, the resignation of defense secretary Jim Mattis and the

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War is over?

Erin Shang | Tuesday, April 24, 2018

“Damascus, ‘Pearl of the East,’ the pride of Syria, the fabled garden of Eden, the home of princes and genii of the Arabian Nights, the oldest metropolis on Earth, the one city in all the world that has kept its name and held its place and looked serenely on while the kingdoms and empires of

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The science of the Syrian chemical attack

Sarah Cate Baker | Tuesday, April 11, 2017

In 1938, a lab in Germany developed the chemical sarin for use as a pesticide. In 1939 the Nazis began producing it as a potential chemical weapon; they never used it. In the 1970s the Chilean secret police assassinated Pinochet’s enemies with it. In 1988 Saddam Hussein’s regime used it to massacre three to five

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For the love of God, no war with Syria

Letter to the Editor | Monday, April 10, 2017

I recently saw a headline that said President Donald Trump was considering military intervention in Syria in light of recent events. Marco Rubio is currently going viral making an impassioned appeal to American values and the need to oust Syrian president Bashar al-Assad. Nikki Haley is condemning the Russian Ambassador in the U.N. over his

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University and College respond to executive order; Jenkins urges Trump to rescind

Observer Staff Report | Saturday, January 28, 2017

The presidents of Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s College both responded over the weekend to an executive order Donald Trump signed Friday, banning the entry into the U.S. of nationals of Iraq, Iran, Syria, Sudan, Somalia, Yemen and Libya for 90 days. University President Fr. John Jenkins responded to the executive order in a statement Sunday morning,

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Our ally Al-Qaida

Devon Chenelle | Tuesday, September 13, 2016

On July 28, Jabhat al-Nusra, senior partner in the amorphous coalition of rebels fighting the Syrian government, declared its split from parent organization al-Qaida. Though this initially seemed a terrible blow for al-Qaida, the split may not have been as it appeared. Tellingly, al-Nusra’s leader, Abu Mohammed al-Julani, said the move was intended to “expose

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Justice Friday highlights Syrian refugee crisis

Allison Sanchez | Monday, September 5, 2016

Dedicated to raising awareness of social justice topics, Saint Mary’s first Justice Friday of the school year focused on an increasingly widespread humanitarian issue that has forced countries to reconsider immigration policy: the Syrian refugee crisis.  Led by senior Caylin McCallick, the discussion began by tracing the origins of the crisis. “A few citizens put

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Sleep out for Syria

Letter to the Editor | Thursday, April 21, 2016

“No one leaves home / unless home is the mouth of a shark” – “Home” by Warsan Shire No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark. Isn’t that interesting? And isn’t that something we so often forget? When we hear the phrase “Syrian refugee crisis,” how many of us think about

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