List of Middle East and North Africa articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 SitRep: Tillerson for State; China Calls Trump “a Child” for Comments; Aleppo Falls
China Increases Defense Spending; Marines Want New Drones; And Lots More
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attia Global Thinkers: Tunisian Filmmaker Mohamed Ben Attia
For whispering a story of liberation.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 More American Commandos Push Into Syria Before the Battle for Raqqa
About 500 U.S. forces will operate close to the front lines, as ISIS fights to retain control of the last major city under its influence.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Will Trump Stay or Go in Iraq?
Though the battle for Mosul has slowed to a crawl, the collapse of the Islamic State’s territorial caliphate — at least in its Iraqi incarnation — remains only a matter of time.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How Egypt’s Copts Fell Out of Love with President Sisi
Once seen by the country's Christians as a savior, Egypt's new strongman has proven little better than his predecessors.
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kremlinsmen-1 The Russian Reset That Never Was
How palace intrigues in the Kremlin, the death of Qaddafi, and war in Ukraine ushered in a new era of mistrust between Russia and the United States under Obama.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Russian Military Draws Lessons From Ukraine and Syria Ops
Moscow and the Russian defense industry looking to cash in, while commanders on the ground forge deeper ties with Iran and Hezbollah
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Don’t Knock Offshore Balancing Until You’ve Tried It
Whatever you want to call the Obama foreign policy, it has not been a calculated attempt to contain the rise of hegemonic threats.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 New MI6 Chief: Terrorism Threat to U.K. ‘Unprecedented’
Why the threat from abroad leaves the new MI6 head shaken and stirred.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Someone Is Smuggling Desperate Civilians Out of Mosul. It Might Be ISIS.
The latest Islamic State moneymaking operation appears to be the trafficking of people from the besieged city to safety.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Latest Wikileaks Dump Sheds New Light on Erdogan’s Power In Turkey
From indirect involvement with ISIS’s oil trade to free press crackdowns, the latest Wikileaks dump isn’t very flattering to Erdogan or his family.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 U.N. Braces for a Potentially Massive Exodus from Mosul
With winter coming and funding running low, the U.N. refugee agency is racing to avoid another humanitarian disaster in Iraq.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Russia Promises to Wipe Out Anyone Left in Eastern Aleppo
Washington and Moscow Spar Over Which Rebel Groups to Bomb, and Which to Work With
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 SitRep: Obama Makes His Counterterrorism Case; The Trump Team’s Conspiracy Theories
Trump to Unveil Mattis Pick at Rally; The Business of Defense
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 President Trump and the Art of the ‘Ultimate’ Israel-Palestine Peace Deal
The two-state solution is not lost for the incoming administration. But Trump will have to pick his battles on settlements wisely.
