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Clashes that shook southern Syria this week have killed hundreds of people, including civilians, and drawn in an array of ...
H E WAS KILLED by an Israeli air strike in Lebanon last year. Yet the face of Hassan Nasrallah, formerly the boss of ...
The Druze, a religious sect with roots in Ismailism, have faced violence in Syria. Their practices are secretive, with no ...
A video clip circulating on social media in recent months shows Syria’s new president, Ahmed al-Shara, astride a handsome ...
Israel launched rare strikes in Damascus on Wednesday in a campaign it said was aimed at defending the Druze community after ...
Ethiopia has arrested dozens of suspected Islamic State militants, who it claimed have been trained and deployed to carry out operations across the country, the state-affiliated Fana broadcaster ...
Yet, no government had formally recognized the “Taliban 2.0” until Russia did so on July 3. Still, in the face of Afghanistan’s enduring hardships, Russia’s decision may mark the beginning of a new ...
The arrests highlighted both the reach of extremist networks into overseas migrant communities and the various vulnerabilities in host countries.
Violence between government forces and armed factions of a religious minority in southern Syria this week has deepened divisions in a country still recuperating from a civil war ...
"NISS has been closely monitoring the group's cross-border infiltration strategies and its efforts to establish sleeper cells in Ethiopia," Fana reported.
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Iraq and the Fires of Its Neighbors
I once asked a man who had worked in Saddam Hussein’s palace whether he had ever heard him swear. “No, he did not have a habit of swearing. He would fall silent when he became angry, but sparks would ...
MOHAMMAD AYATOLLAHI TABAAR is a Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, Associate Professor of International Affairs at Texas A ...