List of Middle East and North Africa articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Russian Spring Break 2016: Syria’s Front Lines
Reports in Russian media claim a Russian company is launching tours through war-torn Syria.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Power of Love, Etc.
From Canada’s open immigration policies to FP’s inspiring Global Thinkers, can outsiders change America’s political culture?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Obama’s Pentagon Trip Highlights How Little Has Changed in ISIS Fight
It has been five months since the president last visited the Defense Department, but the war against the Islamic State is just as frozen as when he was last there.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Twitter Users Hit By ‘State-Sponsored’ Hackers
The attack appears to have targeted researchers and activists working on privacy-related technology.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Kerry: I Don’t Know the Endgame for Israel — But Neither Do the Israelis
Expressing renewed exasperation over the United States’ inability to forge a two-state solution between Israelis and Palestinians, Secretary of State John Kerry says he has no idea how the more than 60-year-old conflict will come to an end. But what’s potentially worse, he says, is that the Israelis don’t know either, even though they have the most incentive to find a solution.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Haaretz Moves In on AIPAC’s Turf
The Israeli newspaper is inviting American Jews to conferences that reject happy talk in favor of couple’s therapy.
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Syrian refugees fleeing violence in their country cross into Jordanian territory, near Mafraq, on the border with Syria, on February 18, 2013. Jordan says it is hosting around 350 Syrian refugees, including more than 90,000 at Zaatari desert refugee camp, near the border with Syria. The country provides free health and education services for more than 200,000 UN-registered Syrian refugees, according to officials. AFP PHOTO/KHALIL MAZRAAWI (Photo credit should read KHALIL MAZRAAWI/AFP/Getty Images) Longform’s Picks of the Week
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Still Under Curfew, Tunis Goes Quiet
Since the bus bombing that struck Tunis in late November, the city has been under strict curfew. Here's what it's like.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Iran Was Building a Nuclear Bomb. So What?
What “closing the file” on Tehran’s nuclear weapons program really means.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 For Israel and Its Neighbors, Energy Finds Power Big Dreams
The race is on to develop gas fields in the eastern Mediterranean, but big energy finds fuel strife as often as peace.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Flexing New Powers, Congress to Review Arms Shipments to Saudi Arabia
Concerned about the rising death toll in Yemen, a Senate panel wants more oversight of $1.29 billion in U.S. weapons shipments to Riyadh.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Syrians Stuck in No Man’s Land
Twelve thousand refugees are battling disease and exhaustion in a barren stretch of desert along the Jordanian-Syrian border.