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In this August 20, 2015 file photo, Defense Secretary Ash Carter speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon, Washington DC, United States. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)


Opinion: America enters the “Old Middle East”

Opinion: America enters the “Old Middle East”

What does Russia want from what remains of Syria? Well, one thing is for sure: any bet that Moscow may be willing to implement the Geneva Documents—even according to the interpretation of Vladimir Putin and his diplomatic “commissar” Sergey Lavrov—is naïve to say the...
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Jeremy Corbyn speaks on stage after he is announced as the new leader of The Labour Party during the Labour Party Leadership Conference in London, United Kingdom, on September 12, 2015. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)


The West and the Challenge of Radicalism

The West and the Challenge of Radicalism

In a sunny sky the smallest cloud makes a big impression! This is how Mikhail Bakunin, one of the fathers of revolutionary radicalism in Europe, described the political situation of the continent in the 1860s. Europe seemed to be in peace, its leadership elites united...
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A handout picture provided by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) on September 12, 2015 shows Saudi Arabia’s King Salman Bin Abdulaziz (C) visiting a wounded woman at a hospital in Saudi Arabia’s Muslim holy city of Mecca, following a deadly crane collapse at the Grand Mosque in Mecca which killed 107 people and injured 238. (AFP Photo/SPA)


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Yemen’s exiled Vice President and Prime Minister Khaled Bahah (C) arrives at Aden airport in the southern port city of Aden, Yemen, on August 1, 2015. (EPA/STR)