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An unidentified tourist lays flowers to honor the victims of a deadly beach attack a week ago that killed 38 people, near the Imperial Marhaba hotel in the Mediterranean resort town of Sousse, Friday, July 3, 2015. Eight people are in custody in Tunisia, suspected of having direct links to a deadly beach attack that killed 38 people, but four other possible suspects have been released, a minister said Thursday. (AP Photo/Hassene Dridi)
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Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, listens to a lawmaker as newly elected legislators take their oaths during the Turkish parliaments first session in Ankara, Turkey, on Tuesday, June 23, 2015. The ruling Islamic-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP) came out first in the June 7 elections but lost its parliamentary majority. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)
Opinion: Erdoğan and Egypt
Relations between Egypt and Turkey have never been easy since the Ottoman army entered Cairo and hung up the body of the Mamluk Sultan Tuman bay II at the city gate for three days in the wake of fierce battles that killed around 50,000 people and turned Egypt into an...Caption:
People attend a protest to condemn an attack by a gunman at the beach of the Imperial Marhabada hotel in Sousse, Tunisia, June 27, 2015. Tour companies were evacuating thousands of foreign holidaymakers from Tunisia on Saturday, a day after a gunman killed 39 people as they lounged at the beach in an attack claimed by Islamic State. Tunisia’s Prime Minister Habib Essid said most of the dead were British, and its health ministry said eight Britons, a German, a Belgian and an Irish citizen were among the casualties of the attack at a hotel in the resort town of Sousse. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra
Opinion: Remote-Controlled Terrorism
Terrorism hit three continents on the same day last week, causing dozens of deaths on a beach in Tunisia and a mosque in Kuwait as well as the beheading of a man at a factory in France where the murderer posed for a selfie with his victim’s decapitated body—an act...Caption:
Opponents of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi participate in a protest in Cairo, Egypt, 02 July 2013.
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Opinion: Why the West misread Egypt
One of the problems the West has faced with the Arab world during the Arab Spring era has been its misinterpretation of the situation in Egypt. The scenario in that country has strayed off the path Western think-tanks hoped, or at least predicted, it would follow...Caption:
US President Barack Obama speaks during the White House Summit on Countering Violent Extremism on February 18, 2015 in Washington, DC. (AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski)