List of Middle East and North Africa articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How Global Displacement Will Reach All-Time High, in Maps and Charts
A new U.N. report demonstrates how global displacement rose in the first half of 2015 and how it is expected to exceed records by the end of the year.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Whiskey-5 Hotel: The 6 biggest points of bullshit being peddled about Benghazi
Best of Best Defense: Number 25 in our list of the most viewed posts of 2015. This post ran originally on October 22.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Hagel: The White House Tried to ‘Destroy’ Me
In an exclusive interview, Chuck Hagel said the Obama administration micromanaged the Pentagon, stabbed him in the back on the way out — and still has no strategy for fixing Syria.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 American Commandos Hit the Ground in Syria
U.S. forces teaming up with Syrian Arabs and Kurds to push ISIS out of Raqqa
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 UN Security Council Goes After Islamic State Cash
The UN Security Council passed a resolution targeting Islamic State finances Thursday.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 On Human Rights Day, a Tunisian Court Sent Six Men to Prison For Being Gay
Five years after a revolution transformed Tunisia, the country still has a long way to go on human rights.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Corker: Iranian Elections Are Steering U.S. Policy on Tehran
A top Republican senator on Thursday said the Obama administration is failing to respond to Iran’s ballistic missile violations out of concern for the impact U.S. actions might have on the Islamic Republic’s parliamentary elections next year.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 In a Counterinsurgency Far, Far Away
After Return of the Jedi, the victorious Rebels declared "mission accomplished" a bit too early. Here’s how they can win, for good this time.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Don’t Call It a Jihadist Insurgency — Yet
The U.N. mission in Mali is mistaking aggrieved cattle-herders and bandits on motorbikes for an Islamist menace. Here’s why it matters that they get it right.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Clinton Slams Trump and Cruz in Counterterrorism Speech
In a sharp-elbowed speech that heavily criticized her Republican rivals, Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton outlined her strategy to prevent homegrown terrorist attacks like the recent massacre of 14 people in San Bernardino, California, by a couple with ties to the Islamic State.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Billion-Dollar Caliphate
The Islamic State has gotten rich from extortion, heists, and smuggling. But how long can the extremist group continue to bankroll jihad?
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NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 10: Patty Anton, an American who is a practicing Muslim, attends a rally in support of religious freedom on September 10, 2010 in New York, New York. Over a thousand people attended the rally on the eve of September 11 to support American Muslims and to call for the building of the Park 51 Mosque in lower Manhattan. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Do Muslims Around the World Really Hate the United States?
There’s a lot of anger out there toward America, but in some predominantly Muslim countries the trend lines are improving.
