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Lebanon
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Three Years On And No End In Sight For Syria

 March 15 marked the tragic third anniversary of the Syrian civil war, one which has already claimed the lives of approximately 130,000 Syrians and displaced millions, both internally and in neighboring countries. What has com...
by Tarek Shehab
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Egypt
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Egypt, Israel, and the House of Assad

Commemorated by none, forgotten by most, and unknown to many in the West, the story of the United Arab Republic is nowadays relegated to the footnotes of Cold War histories. Way back in 1958 the governments of Egypt and Syria ...
by Owen Stenner
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Human Rights

Junior Jihadis: A New Era For Child Soldiers?

We are inundated with stories of children crossing continents to join the battle and to help to establish a caliphate.
by Flo Carson
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Afghanistan
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Russia: Today’s Geopolitical Counter-Force And What This Means For American Interests

When Mitt Romney labelled Russia as “America’s No.1 geopolitical foe” in his 2012 presidential campaign, the President said “the 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back because, you know, the Cold War...
by Esma Mneina
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Human Rights

WATCH: Ellie Goulding’s #Song4Syria

Pop icon Ellie Goulding has released her single “I Know You Care” in support of Syria’s children – children who have watched their peers die, children who are starving, children who have been forced to f...
by Priyanka Mogul
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Iran

The Iraqi-Kurdish Oil Deal And The Fight Against Islamic State

In early 2014, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) began independently exporting crude oil through Turkey, angering the central Iraqi government which “claims sole authority to export oil from the country”. In total, th...
by David Bresnahan-McRae
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Human Rights

Syria: “Lens of a Young Homsi”, Photographs of a City under Siege

When demonstrations started in Syria in March 2011, a group of friends from Homs, all under 25, took their cameras to photograph these unprecedented protests in their city. Soon after, they were photographing the destruction o...
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Africa
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How Democracy And Instability In MENA Revealed A Western Existential Crisis

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and democracy are having a hard time making sense with one another. The West has found itself in a sort of existential crisis; the chaos that has erupted in MENA in the search for ...
by Esma Mneina
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Russia
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Why Russia Continues to Support Assad

Despite the current political climate in Moscow with its own unrest in the south, and concern over its “sphere of influence,” President Putin appears dedicated to supporting the Assad regime. Yet Russia, as well as the Unit...
by Virginia Winslow
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