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UN Security Advisor Justin Rashid dives deep into the #COVID19 response in Jordan.

Destroyed House, by Ibrahem Qasim

The media is failing to tell the full story, and that's part of the problem.

The price of Maliki's inaction toward Iraqi Sunnis was poor public diplomacy.

mer·ce·nary 

noun \mr-s-ner-ē, -ne-rē\

: a soldier who is paid by a foreign country to fight in its army : a soldier who will fight for any group or country that hires him (Merriam-Webster)