In addition to mainstream cinema success with films like Mr & Mrs Smith, Wanted, and Maleficent, she ventured into directing and screenwriting with projects such as In the Land of Blood and Honey(2011) - a war drama set during the Bosnian War. Apart from being one of Hollywood's highest-...
America rejoiced last Thursday when U. S. pilot Capt. Scott F. O’Grady, whose F-16 fighter was shot down by a Bosnian Serb missile, emerged virtually unscathed after spending nearly a week in Bosnian Serb-held territory. Given images of an exuberant O’Grady waving a loaded pistol toward...
The U.S. Navy invaded the Dominican Republic in 1916, taking over the army, police, and several vital locations asDesiderio Arias, the Dominican Republic’s secretary of war, was forced out of Santo Domingo. The occupation lasted through 1924, when waning public support following World War I ...
“This child had turned into a skeleton in this war before he died,” Muhammed al-Kafarneh, a relative of Yazan, told Al Jazeera in a video interview on Monday, as Yazan’s body was being cleaned and prepared for burial in the background. “Hunger ravaged his body. This child was su...
WarAttempts to analyse the actions and responses of the international community to the dramatic events unfolding in the Balkans in late 1993, early 1994. Based on a larger research on the US involvement in the Bosnian conflict, it tries to find answers to a basic question: why did the US ...
The American Dream died on 9/11, 2001, tragically punctured in its vital organs by armed men and airplanes. Later on the US debased and abandoned its most cherished precept: human dignity, devolving into preemptive war, torture, murder, terrorism and, eventually, despotism. Kimberley Berry, ...