The civil wars, the ethnic wars and the religious wars being seen today in the USA media has been going on for some time now. Some are historic.

The only way to stop them are cease fire, peace agreements and peace treaties.

We don't belong in Iraq.

We never did.

The Russia campaign is creating more refugees. NATO really has to stand ready in Europe.

January 12, 2016
By Somini Sengupta and Anne Barnadian

United Nations — The head of the United Nations’ relief efforts (click here) for Syria pleaded with all warring parties on Tuesday to lift their sieges on key towns and let agencies deliver food and medical care to people stuck behind front lines.

“The immediate thing to be done is to lift sieges everywhere,” the humanitarian coordinator for Syria, Yacoub El Hillo, told reporters by phone from Damascus, the Syrian capital, where he is based.

Mr. Hillo’s comments came a day after he joined a carefully negotiated aid convoy into the besieged town of Madaya. He said he saw severely malnourished people there, especially children, and others who had gone hungry for a long time. He said some people he met there resembled “skeletons that are now barely moving.”...