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State of Confusion Over State of Palestine
Jonathan Schanzer
CNN
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Thomas Joscelyn
National Post
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Tony Badran
NOW Lebanon
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Clifford D. May
Scripps Howard News Service
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Learning From the Soviets: How to Withdraw From Afghanistan
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
The Atlantic
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Interrogate Brennan
President Obama’s nominee for CIA director, John Brennan, has been one of the president’s closest advisers over the last four years. So it should come as no surprise that Obama wants him to run Langley. more...
Pilgrims or Mercenaries? Iranian Hostages Freed by Free Syrian Army
The Free Syrian Army last week released forty seven Iranian citizens and their Syrian interpreter in exchange for 2,130 prisoners held by the Syrian government. The exchange of hostages was facilitated... more...
Austrian Capital ‘Filled with Iranian Spies’
The Austrian capital is a main European hub for Tehran’s spy network, the US-based Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress concluded in December in a comprehensive report on Iranian intelligence activities. more...
Shabaab Releases Photos of French Commando Captured in Failed Rescue Mission
Shabaab has released photographs of a French commando who was captured during a failed raid to free a hostage late last week. The French commando, who was initially reported as captured, died in... more...
ISAF Kills and Captures IMU Operatives in Afghan North
Afghan and Coalition troops killed a facilitator for the al Qaeda-linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) during a raid in Afghanistan's northern province of Takhar yesterday. In a separate raid... more...
Obama’s Flexible Red Lines
In response to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s latest address, US officials and spokespersons have dismissively described the embattled dictator as someone “detached from reality” and “delusional,”... more...
A Nasty Neologism
'The enemy of America is not our many Muslim friends," President George W. Bush declared soon after the 9/11 attacks. Mr. Bush's statement set the tone for the tumultuous decade to come, one in which... more...
The Rise of Egypt’s Jon Stewart
The Jon Stewart of Egypt, Bassem Youssef, is used to making headlines in Egypt for his popular late-night show. But in the past week the satirist has been in papers around the world for taking his criticism of Egyptian... more...