Contemporary Conflicts in South Asia
India and Pakistan have fought four major wars since gaining independence from Great Britain in 1947. Both have developed nuclear weapons and tensions remain high.
Contemporary Conflicts in Africa
A survivor of a vicious machete attack which were characteristic of the Rwandan Genocide in 1994.
Contemporary Conflicts in the Middle East
Afghan Girl is a 1984 photographic portrait by journalist Steve McCurry which appeared on the June 1985 cover of National Geographic. The image is of a young woman with green eyes in a red headscarf looking intensely at the camera.
Contemporary Conflicts in the Middle East
- Palestinian land claims by Jews and Arabs
- 1948 Israeli War of Independence
- 1956 Suez Crisis, 1967 Six Day War, and 1973 Yom Kippur War
- PLO and Yasir Arafat
- Camp David Accords
- Assassinations of Sadat and Rabin
- Intifada
- Road Map
- Central Asian oil revenue
- 1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
- Mujahideen
- Taliban
- Al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden
- 2001 US Invasion of Afghanistan
- Hamid Karzai
The People's Republic of China
Tank Man is the nickname of an unidentified man who stood in front of a column of tanks on June 5, 1989, the morning after the Chinese military had suppressed the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 by force.
Terrorism
As viewers watched on television, American marines prepared to bring down the statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad’s Firdos Square in April 2003 shortly after the start of the Iraq War. Instability in Iraq following American intervention later allowed the rise of ISIS.
Terrorism
- UN Peacekeeping Forces
- Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
- Nuclear proliferation
- Saddam Hussein
- 2003 US Invasion of Iraq
- Kurds
- 1948 UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Rwandan Genocide
- AIDS Epidemic
- Refugees
- Modern Terrorism
- Cyberterrorism
- Palestine Islamic Jihad, Hamas, and Hizballah
- Irish Republican Army (IRA)
- Narcoterrorism
- September 11, 2001 Attacks
- Department of Homeland Security
- USA Patriot Act
Globalization
The slums of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, home to 1.4 million people, are one of the most dangerous places in the world. 33,000 people were murdered in Rio between 2007 and 2013, and 5,412 were killed in encounters with the police.