List of Middle East and North Africa articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 SitRep: U.S. No-Fly Zone in Syria? Russian Hack Fail
Top General Skeptical Over Russian Deal; Kurds in New Fight; And Lots More
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Russia’s Nuclear Paranoia Fuels Its Nuclear Propaganda
A classic disinformation campaign about U.S. nukes reveals a lot about Moscow's military anxieties.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 ICC to War Criminals: Destroying Shrines Is Worse Than Rape
The international tribunal is about to convict a Malian jihadi for destruction of cultural heritage. It’s staying silent about his alleged responsibility for horrific sexual violence.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Choose Your Own Adventure: The Future of the World
It’s not just the U.S. presidential platforms that will shape global politics in the years ahead -- it’s Americans’ theories of how the world works.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Post-Obama Syrian Playbook
The current president is right that America can’t win the war against Bashar al-Assad. Here’s how his successor can avoid defeat.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 U.S. Commandos Nearly Hit by Syrian Airstrike
Tensions raised in northern Syria as Kurdish and Syrian forces clash
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Obama to Israel: Our Tax Dollars Won’t Go to Your Defense Contractors
Washington and Jerusalem are about to ink a groundbreaking arms package, but it hinges on ending sweetheart deals for Israel’s defense firms.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 New Amnesty Report Describes the Hell of Assad’s Prisons
Former prisoners recount physical and psychological torture
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Flag of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, a Salafi jihadi extremist militant group and self-proclaimed caliphate and Islamic state which is led by Sunni Arabs from Iraq and Syria. Dated 2015. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images) The Greatest Divorce in the Jihadi World
Al Qaeda wasn’t about to take ISIS’s defection from its ranks lying down. In Part III of an exclusive series, an Islamic State insider describes the events that led to civil war within the anti-Assad ranks.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 SitRep: Americans on the Front Lines With ISIS; Iran’s $400 Million
The U.N. Isn’t Done With Saudi; Assad’s Chemical Stockpiles; And Lots More
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Yemen Carnage Prompts New U.N. Push to Censure Saudi-led Coalition
Ban Ki-moon is threatening to put Riyadh and its allies back on a blacklist of countries that kill and maim children in war zones.
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Flag of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, a Salafi jihadi extremist militant group and self-proclaimed caliphate and Islamic state which is led by Sunni Arabs from Iraq and Syria. Dated 2015. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images) How the Islamic State Seized a Chemical Weapons Stockpile
When jihadists captured a Syrian military base, they found a cache of some of the world’s most dangerous weapons buried in its bunkers. In Part II of an exclusive series, an Islamic State member explains how they eventually fell into the hands of the self-styled “caliphate.”
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 SitRep: “There’s no Delta Force Residing at the Embassy,” Russia Says Syria Strikes Legit
NSA Hack; Aleppo Burning; And Lots More
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Saudi Arabia Strikes Back
In the wake of the Iran nuclear deal, Saudi Arabia has increasingly taken matters into its own hands.
