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Looks like the State Department and their Secretary, John Kerry, will call ISIS’s acts genocidal after all. Photo by Bureau of Educational & Cultural Affairs

The House is pressuring Obama to label ISIS’s atrocities as acts of genocide. Will he comply? Photo by Gage Skidmore

Turkey recalled their ambassador to the Vatican, headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church, to protest Pope Francis’s remarks that the Turks committed genocide against Armenians at the turn of the 20th century.

This has become very apparent, as more news come out of the embattled Syria-Iraq region, about how the Islamic State (or ISIS) is killing civilians and videotaping the killings and beheadings to post as propaganda on the Internet. Yet, the international community waits for a strong U.S. response that has not been decided.

WASHINGTON — The top court in the Guatemalan judicial system has overturned the conviction of their former dictator, Efrain Rios Montt, for genocide (per Associated Press). The Constitutional Court said that the genocide trial must revert to the middle of the proceedings, with court secretary Martin Guzman stating that the trial needs to go back […]