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The Case Against Qatar
By Elizabeth Dickinson in Foreign Policy ABU DHABI and DOHA — Behind a glittering mall near Doha’s city center sits the quiet restaurant where Hossam used to run his Syrian rebel brigade. At the battalion’s peak in 2012 and 2013,… Read More ›
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The Syrian Front: Waiting to Die in Aleppo
By Christoph Reuter in Der Spiegel Driving through the outer districts of the city, a ghostly wasteland begins. The streets and the half-destroyed residential buildings are empty and the only sounds come from shredded metal signs moving in the wind… Read More ›
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Syria Reveals More Secret Chemical Weapons Facilities After Shunning Inspectors | Business Insider
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If the U.S. Wanted To, It Could Help Free Thousands of Enslaved Yazidi Women in a Single Day
By Matthew Barber in Syria Comment The plight of thousands of Yazidi women, kidnapped by the Islamic State (IS) during its August 3 attack on Iraq’s Sinjar mountains and in the following weeks, has received some media attention, but most… Read More ›
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An Army to Defeat Assad
How to Turn Syria’s Opposition Into a Real Fighting Force By Kenneth M. Pollack in Foreign Affairs Syria is a hard one. The arguments against the United States’ taking a more active role in ending the vicious three-year-old conflict there… Read More ›
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DNA Evidence Identifies Jack the Ripper
It is the greatest murder mystery of all time, a puzzle that has perplexed criminologists for more than a century and spawned books, films and myriad theories ranging from the plausible to the utterly bizarre. But now, thanks to modern… Read More ›
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Matthew Barber Reports On the Crisis in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region
By Matthew Barber in Syria Comment The calm is slowly unraveling in Kurdistan, and a growing, pervasive anxiety is beginning to afflict us all. We know that the fighting between the Kurdish Peshmerga forces and the Islamic State jihadis continues… Read More ›
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The movement that dare not speak its name in Israel
Originally posted on The Progressive Democrat:
Vocal opposition to the war in Gaza can be hard to express in Israel, where campaigner Gideon Levy says people ‘leave their liberalism’ at the 1967 border Thousands of people gathered in Tel Aviv… -
Kansas’ Ruinous Tax Cuts
By the Editors of The New York Times There was a windstorm of hasty excuses in recent weeks after Kansas reported that it took in $338 million less than expected in the 2014 fiscal year and would have to dip… Read More ›
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