List of Middle East and North Africa articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Checking the Math on the Pentagon’s ISIS Body Counts
The Obama administration steadily updates the tally of dead combatants in its latest war — but can the numbers be trusted?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Merkel Ally To Trump: Don’t Use ‘Lies’ About Refugees and Crime in Germany
A Merkel surrogate hits at Trump for falsehoods about a refugee-fueled crime surge in Germany.
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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) Present at the Creation
The never-told-before story of the meeting that led to the creation of ISIS, as explained by an Islamic State insider.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A Defense of Obama’s Middle East ‘Balancing Act’
From the Iraq drawdown to chemical weapons red lines to Russia’s war in Syria, a conversation with Robert Malley, the president’s top Middle East policy official.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Democratic Party’s Silence on Syria
The Syrian conflict barely received a mention at the Democratic convention. That’s because the party is at war with itself over what to do about the crisis.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Here Come the Young
In the coming years, the population of people under the age of 30 in some of the most fragile and unstable countries is going to skyrocket. And the world is not ready for them.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The War on Syria’s Doctors
For five years, the Assad regime has relentlessly targeted medical workers in rebel-held territory. This is the story of their desperate fight to stay alive — and save lives.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Salvation of Sinners and the Suicide Bomb
How the call to religion turns petty criminals into Islamic State terrorists.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 With Yemeni Casualties Rising, GOP Senator Looks to Block Big Arms Sale to Saudi Arabia
Citing concerns over Saudi Arabia’s human rights record, Republican Senator Rand Paul says he’s looking for ways of stopping a $1.15 billion weapons deal with Riyadh that would include the sale of 130 Abrams battle tanks, 20 armored vehicles, and other military equipment.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Holocaust Museum Wades Into Syria Debate With Calls To Help Aleppo
The federally-funded organization is using a video shot on the ground there to call for steps the Obama administration has rejected.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 U.S.-Backed Libyan Forces Take Islamic State Strongholds in Sirte
U.S. special operations assisted by calling in airstrikes.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Tunisia’s War on Islam
Is overzealous prosecution of the war on terror contributing to radicalization?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A Verdict on Change
This ambitious young judge wants to change Tunisia’s justice system. But he still has to type out his own verdicts.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Storyteller
Shukrii Mabkhout is not just a novelist — he's the biographer of modern Tunisia.
