Middle East war refugees have biomarkers for PTSD
War refugees from Syria and Iraq show biomarkers for post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health problems, a new study shows.
March 11, 2020 • ~2 min
Tags: war biomarkers refugees metals middle-east health-and-medicine post-traumatic-stress-disorder-ptsd
Experts: To ease tensions, the U.S. and Iran must soften their rhetoric
To ease tensions between the US and Iran, "both sides have to find a way to walk away from the rhetoric they have used that binds them to escalatory action."
Jan. 14, 2020 • ~1 min
Tags: war united-states iran society-and-culture rhetoric
Expert: Suleimani killing moves the US and Iran closer to war
An expert tells you what you need to know about what could happen next following the US killing of Iranian Major General Qassim Suleimani.
Jan. 6, 2020 • ~1 min
Tags: war united-states iran government featured society-and-culture
Many Americans overlook war crimes if the war is ‘just’
A new study "helps explain the strength of support for the recent pardoning of US soldiers convicted of war crimes."
Dec. 13, 2019 • ~7 min
Tags: ethics war united-states surveys society-and-culture crimes soldiers
What’s behind the protests in Iraq?
Protests in Iraq have raged since September. A Middle East studies expert explains who the protestors are and what they want.
Dec. 12, 2019 • ~1 min
Tags: war oil iraq society-and-culture protests
Poverty, not war trauma, harms cognition in child refugees
The burden of household poverty, rather than trauma and violence, affects child refugees' working memory, researchers say.
Oct. 30, 2019 • ~5 min
Tags: poverty cognition trauma war refugees childrens-health society-and-culture
What a Turkey-Saudi Arabia ‘cold war’ will mean for the Middle East
Turkey and Saudi Arabia are battling for strategic power in the Middle East. What do the tensions portend for the region? An expert weighs in.
Sept. 9, 2019 • ~1 min
Tags: politics war economy middle-east society-and-culture
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