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Jeannie Rousseau at age 23 in Paris, at the time she was also working as a spy. (Family photo)
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US President Donald Trump and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin hold a meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, on July 7, 2017. (AFP)
State Department Had a Deal for Russia. It Was Spurned
President Donald Trump has publicly praised President Vladimir Putin, and slammed a Congress-led deal to punish Russia with more sanctions. He even agreed, at a meeting with Putin this summer, to a US-Russia dialogue on cyber issues, even though four US intelligence...Caption:
Hajj pilgrims in Mecca. Reuters photo
A Brand New Mecca City
Muslims make up about 24 percent of the world population. With one and a half billion Muslims worldwide, should one billion of them decide on performing Hajj– which is pillar of Islam– at least once in a lifetime, it will take up to 500 years for the task to be...Caption:
An Iraqi man crosses a street past security forces during clashes in Sulaimaniyah, in Iraq’s Kurdistan region, on October 10, 2015 (AFP)
Autumn of the Iraqi Map
On the way from Erbil to Kirkuk, strange feelings haunted me. For the first time in my life, I wish I were a foreign correspondent, who writes with neutrality and sangfroid and looks for a stark title for his article. When he leaves the country, he turns the page and...Caption:
President Trump, front left, in May at the new NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. Credit Stephen Crowley/The New York Times
Washington Remains United Behind NATO
Partisanship and contentiousness typically dominate Washington news. In the clamor, it’s easy to overlook the national consensus on a significant issue: the need to revitalize America’s most crucial security alliance, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. I was...Caption:
File photo: A man walks past damaged cars at a site hit by what activists said were airstrikes carried out by the Russian air force in Idlib, Syria. (Reuters/Ammar Abdullah)