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Buses wait to evacuate people from a rebel pocket in Aleppo, in the regime-controlled al-Hamadaniah Stadium of Aleppo, Syria December 14, 2016. Reuters photo
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Losing flag. Photographer: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty Images
ISIS Remains Dangerous in Defeat
With Mosul recaptured from ISIS, part of its old town already in the hands of US-backed groups, probably weeks from being taken, ISIS is likely soon to be wiped off war zone maps. Like Lord Voldemort in the early Harry Potter books, it won’t have a physical...Caption:
Trump has surrendered, but the nation hasn’t. Photographer: Pool/Getty Images
US Is Still a Global Leader?
If you think of the US as a global leader, these are troubling times. This past week’s G-20 meeting showed how weak the US has become. At a big international summit, the president seems uninterested and withdrawn. But America is not now and has never been a...Caption:
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The Modernization Of Middle East Is A Sight To See
In every age intellectuals shape and cling to one concept as the organizing principle for an understanding of the present and speculation about the future. From the end of the 1940s, as the colonial era drew to a close, the fashionable concept was “modernization” and...Caption:
A man walks on the corniche in Doha, Qatar, June 15, 2017. Reuters
Qatar: The Tortoise-like Policy
Qatar is dealing with its vicinity similarly to the tortoise when it senses danger. After 39 days of the boycott, Doha has only made one step out of hundred due others – it signed a memorandum of understanding with the US on fighting terrorism funding. Qatar...Caption:
Airstrikes target ISIS positions on the edge of the Old City in Mosul, Iraq, Tuesday, July 11, 2017. Photo: Felipe Dana, AP