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Pentagon official Ashton Carter testifies before a Congressional committee in Washington, on February 12, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)


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Smoke billows from the site of clashes on the road leading to the airport in the Libyan capital Tripoli, on July 20, 2014.
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TOPSHOTS A Syrian man looks at the rubble of a five story apartment building that was destroyed in a barrel bomb attack in the al-Shaar neighbourhood of the northern city of Aleppo on August 27, 2014. Syrian war planes carried out a series of air raids on positions held by the Islamic State jihadist group […]


Opinion: A Middle East without Intellectuals

Opinion: A Middle East without Intellectuals

During my most recent visit to Turkey, Pope Francis described the actions being taken by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) as a “profoundly grave sin against God.” He said he could not resign himself to a “Middle East without Christians,” who had been free to...
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Participants attend the start of the 166th OPEC Conference meet in Vienna, Austria, on November 27, 2014. (EPA/Herbert Pfarrhofer)


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A couple passes coin-operated newspaper vending machines in the metro in Moscow. (John Macdougall/AFP/Getty Images)