List of Middle East and North Africa articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Newscast: What Looms on the 2016 Horizon
From China’s economic downturn to the lifting of sanctions on Iran, this week’s panel reviews the scariest, biggest, and most important stories in the year ahead.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Sanders Closes In on Clinton in Iowa Caucus. But Senators Aren’t Feeling the Bern.
From Iran to the Islamic State, Sanders’s own Democratic colleagues say his lack of foreign policy creds are due to a lack of focus — not naiveté.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The United States Botched the Syria Talks Before They Even Began
By kowtowing to Russia and accepting that Bashar al-Assad might be able to stay on, America all but guaranteed Syria's bloody war will drag on.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Growth of Islamic State Forces State Department Overhaul
Senior U.S. officials reveal exclusive details on changes to the department’s counter-extremism apparatus.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A Humanitarian Stimulus
It's time to dispose of the politics of fear and embrace a pro-refugee, pro-economy policy.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Top U.S. Commander: More Troops May Be Heading to Iraq
As the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq grinds on, more U.S. troops may be heading back.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 10 of Ai Weiwei’s Most Powerful Instagrams from Lesbos
The Chinese artist is documenting the arrival of refugees on the Greek Island.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 There Is No Plan B if the Syria Peace Talks Fail
And, trust me, they will. So what comes next?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 In Confidential Memo, U.N. Says It Can’t Enforce a Syrian Peace Deal
Staffan de Mistura highlights the limits of the world’s power to effectively monitor any Syrian peace deals.
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Supporters of ruling party candidate, Jovenel Moise, of PHTK political party, march in Port-au-Prince, on January 28, 2016 to give their support to the candidate and to protest against the possible installation of a transitional government. The demonstrators demand the continuation of the electoral process that was scheduled for Sunday January 24. Haiti's electoral authority postponed the planned January 24th presidential run-off amid mounting opposition street protests and voting fraud allegations. / AFP / HECTOR RETAMAL (Photo credit should read HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP/Getty Images) Longform’s Picks of the Week
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Watch an Iranian Drone Monitor a U.S. Aircraft Carrier
Iran claims to have flown a drone over a U.S. aircraft carrier.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Power of Narrative Comics
FP’s Mindy Kay Bricker talks to writer Alia Malek and alternative cartoonist Josh Neufeld about telling the story of the Syrian refugee crisis through a comic.
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GREECE. Kos. September 11, 2015. A small dinghy of migrants arrives in Kos. Tens of thousands of migrants have attempted the journey in flimsy craft from Turkey to Kos. Hundreds of thousands have set off to other Greek islands. The death of Aylan Kurdi the previous week set off a firestorm of attention to the plight of migrants and refugees (largely from Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan) crossing into Europe. More than 500,000 have arrived thus far in 2015. The Road to Germany: $2400
Each of the millions of Syrian refugees who have fled their brutalized, unrecognizable homeland did so for uniquely personal reasons—the regime bombarding cities, the Islamic State threatening a return to the dark ages, the loss of jobs in a crumbling economy. Yet their quests cohered around one purpose: They all wanted better lives. ¶ Some set out on a complicated journey to Europe with a crude graphic—a flowchart of the route from Turkey to Germany—as a guide. In its rudimentary geometry, refugees saw an accessible dream. In its illustrated stick figures, kicking their heels upon reaching the final destination, they saw themselves. They allowed an image, powerful and meditative in its simplicity, to shape their personal stories. ¶ FP has done the same. On the following pages, the odyssey of several refugees—men, women, and children—is presented in the form of a nonfiction comic. Each panel is based on firsthand reporting gathered by journalist Alia Malek: Captions describe real events, and speech bubbles show either direct (shaded in pink) or paraphrased quotes. ¶ Showing what happens when strangers are thrown together by adversity—how desperate alliances form and dissolve—it is a diary of an exodus from a war zone to a hopeful, if uncertain future in the West. ¶ How long the voyage to asylum would take, the refugees didn’t know; they prayed that they would survive it.
