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Druze clerics from the Golan Heights watch the fighting near the Druze village of Hadar on the Syrian side of the border with Israel, 20 June 2015, during a fight with Syrian Nusra Front (JAN) fighters following the killing of some twenty Druze by Islamic opposition groups in Syria’s north. EPA/ATEF SAFADI
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Still image taken from Al-Jazeera interview with Abu Mohammed Al-Golani.
Opinion: A Meeting with Golani
Al-Jazeera’s televised interview with Al-Nusra Front leader Abu Mohammad Al-Golani has garnered controversy over whether the media should grant time and space to figures linked with terrorism. However, this is something that has taken place throughout the history of...Caption:
HOLLYWOOD, CA – FEBRUARY 22: (L-R) Actor Chris Evans, Bub Asman, and Alan Robert Murray winners of the Best Sound Editing Award for ‘American Sniper’, and actress Sienna Miller pose in the press room during the 87th Annual Academy Awards at Loews Hollywood Hotel on February 22, 2015 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images)
Opinion: Kissing Soldiers’ Boots in Damascus, Shining them in Hollywood
Let us compare the following two scenes. The first is a famous scene from the recent Hollywood movie, American Sniper, in which we are shown a point-of-view shot from the lead character, US Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, played by Bradley Cooper. In the scene, Kyle—who with...Caption:
Iraqi fighters from the Peace Brigades and the Promised Day Brigade, groups formed by Iraqi Shi’ite Muslim cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr, parade in the central city of Kufa, some 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, on May 3, 2015. (AFP Photo/Haidar Hamdani)
Opinion: Propaganda Wars—ISIS vs. the Shi’ite Popular Mobilization
When the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) captured Iraq’s second city Mosul in June of 2014, the event brought to the fore the power of the extremist group’s propaganda machine and how it had paved the way for its lightning advance across northern Iraq and its...Caption:
FILE – In this July 25, 2014, file photo, Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah speaks during a rally to mark Jerusalem Day or Al-Quds day, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon. On Friday, March. 27, 2015 Nasrallah , in a televised speech, slammed Saudi Arabia over its military campaign in Yemen saying it is […]