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Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Saudi Deputy Crown Prince and Defence Minister Mohammed bin Salman during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, May 30, 2017. REUTERS/Pavel Golovkin/Pool


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Armed police patrol near Britain’s Victoria Station in Manchester. (AFP)


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A 1988 file photo shows General Manuel Noriega speaking in Panama City. (AFP)


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Hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated to shelters to escape Cyclone Mora in Bangladesh. (AFP)


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Members of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) raise the victory gesture as they stand on a building in the town of al-Karamah, 26 kms from the ISIS group bastion of Raqqa, on May 10, 2017. DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP/Getty Images


Syria’s Kurds Work All the Angles for Autonomy

Syria’s Kurds Work All the Angles for Autonomy

It’s an idea that Syria, Russia and the US all might be willing to tolerate. Turkey however … Outside the headlines, something remarkable is going on in Syria. The Kurds, making a long-term play for an autonomous region, seem to have decided that their...