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Chris Hayes Backtracks and Apologizes for Remark “Feels Uncomfortable Calling Killed Soldiers Hero”

    Sunday Chris Hayes of MSNBC found himself smack in the middle of Controversy over a remark he made regarding US Soldiers and Heroism when speaking about the upcoming Memorial Day.   What Hayes said was “I think it’s interesting because I think it is very difficult to talk about the war dead and […]

Syria: In Search of the Rape Victims Among the Refugees

Everybody, it seemed, had heard the stories, and could relay the same horrific details about Syrian soldiers allegedly raping women and girls with cruel impunity. There were ugly accounts, told by many refugees from the northern Syrian town of Jisr al-Shughour, some of whom had crossed into nearby Turkey, and by others who remained in a strip of Syrian territory hugging the Turkish border

After Egypt’s Revolution: Christian-Muslim Violence Erupts

The angry, aggressive crowd formed within minutes of my arrival. Dozens of Muslim men, all in ankle-length galabias, came together in the middle of the dusty dirt path leading to the Church of the Two Martyrs in this poor Christian and Muslim village some 130 miles south of Cairo.

Durango’s Killing Fields: The Grave in the Garden

Mexican soldiers found a seventh mass grave in Durango, Mexico, this week, and its location was as unexpected as the six before it. TIME was one of the first media at the scene on Thursday, May 19, as forensic officials descended on a white stucco house in the upscale Jardines de Durango neighborhood to unearth presumed drug-cartel victims buried in the garden