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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

by Noah Feldman | May 30, 2017 | Opinion

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...

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Chelesea manager Antonie Conte and Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger during the FA Cup final on May 28. (Getty Images)

Arsène Wenger Confirms he is still the Best Choice for Arsenal

by Michael Cox | May 30, 2017 | Sports

London – Regardless of the result, this felt like a fitting end to the campaign – a match between two sides lining up with a three-man defense. It had, of course, been a 3-0 defeat at the Emirates in September which encouraged Antonio Conte to switch to his...

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Real Madrid’s Brazilian full-back Marcelo. (AFP)

Marcelo, Dani Alves Make Champions League Final a Battle of the Full-Backs

by Sid Lowe | May 30, 2017 | Sports

London – “Three months ago some people wanted to strangle him,” Massimiliano Allegri said with a smile, but that night they just wanted to hug him. The story goes that when Dani Alves arrived at Juventus, Gigi Buffon took him to one side and asked him to teach...

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How to Protect Your Privacy as More Apps Harvest Your Data

by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 30, 2017 | Technology

In the real world, your personal life is a private space. But in tech, your personal data is a ripe resource for businesses to harvest in their own interests. That was the broad takeaway from last week’s New York Times profile on Uber, the car-summoning service, and...

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Religious students attending class in a tent outside the madrasa in Charikar in Parwan. Credit Jim Huylebroek for The New York Times

Taliban Target: Scholars of Islam

by Mujib Mashal and Jawad Sukhanyar | May 30, 2017 | Features

TOGH-BAIRDI, Afghanistan — A lone grave, its dirt mound shaded under the drooping branches of a mulberry tree and kept adorned with flowers, has become a daily stop for seminary students and staff members near Togh-Bairdi, in northern Afghanistan. It is the burial...