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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 ...
American air power has been deployed several times to "establish democracy" and fight terrorism in the Middle East. In 1990, when Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, the US launched ...
H E WAS KILLED by an Israeli air strike in Lebanon last year. Yet the face of Hassan Nasrallah, formerly the boss of ...
"Addicted to Violence," the third album from the SOAD guitarist's solo project Scars on Broadway, is out July 18.
Iraq’s National Security Advisor arrived in Erbil amid tensions over budget and salaries. Kurdish leaders accuse Baghdad of ...
David Lammy proclaimed himself the first UK Minister to visit Syria since Assad’s retreat to Moscow. Renewing British ...
A video clip circulating on social media in recent months shows Syria’s new president, Ahmed al-Shara, astride a handsome ...
Trump, in his less diplomatic style, has repeated Biden’s warning, albeit in much more colorful language. He told reporters ...
Thousands of Parisians stormed the Bastille, a medieval fortress and prison, in Paris on 1789. The Bastille symbolised the ...
Gazans are walking for miles to four Mad Max-like facilities at the borders of the strip in the South and at the Netzarim corridor, which splits the north and south in half and has been occupied if ...
Akash and BrahMos missiles, developed by Indian scientists R. Prahlada and Sivathanu Pillai, played a crucial role in ...
For decades, the foreign policy elite in both parties insisted that America’s greatness has more to do with Damascus than ...