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Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi at a mosque in the centre of Iraq’s second city, Mosul, according to a video recording posted on the Internet on July 5, 2014, in this still image taken from video. REUTERS/Social Media Website via Reuters TV

Baghdadi Was Here

by Ghassan Charbel | Jul 3, 2017 | Opinion

The world has remembered three men this week. They come from different continents, different professions, and divergent interests. In the first scene, leaders from around the world gathered at the European Parliament headquarters in Strasbourg, around the coffin of...

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Sorry, grandpa. Photographer: Scott Olson/Getty Images

America And The New Travel Ban Rules

by Noah Feldman | Jul 2, 2017 | Opinion

President Donald Trump’s administration has issued guidelines through the State Department for who will be exempt from the travel ban from six majority Muslim countries, which the US Supreme Court allowed Monday to partly go into effect. The guidelines are highly...

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Airtight. Photographer: Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images

The Supreme Court Is the Last Leakproof Institution

by Stephen Carter | Jul 2, 2017 | Opinion

With another term of the US Supreme Court behind us, full of decisions both predictable and surprising, perhaps we should take a moment to consider a question very much of the moment: Why doesn’t the court leak? The rest of Washington has reached the point where...

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Afghan immigrants working at a brick kiln in Pakdasht, Iran. Millions of undocumented Afghans live in Iran. Credit Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu Agency, via Getty Images

How Iran Recruited Afghan Refugees to Fight in Syria

by Ali M Latifi | Jul 2, 2017 | Opinion

BAMIAN, Afghanistan — War and poverty have scattered Afghans across the globe like pieces of shrapnel. Millions of Afghans came of age in refugee camps in Pakistan and Iran or as workers in the Persian Gulf nations. The migration continues. The past few years have...

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Chinese President Xi Jinping watches during a gift handover ceremony at the United Nations European headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, January 18, 2017. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

Is War Between a Rising China and a Dominant America Inevitable?

by David Ignatius | Jul 1, 2017 | Opinion

Let’s imagine a Chinese “applied history” project, similar to the one at Harvard’s Belfer Center that helped spawn Professor Graham Allison’s widely discussed book “Destined for War.” Allison’s historical analysis led him to posit a “Thucydides Trap” and the danger...

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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attends a graduation ceremony and air show marking the 50th anniversary of the founding of King Faisal Air College in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, January 25, 2017. REUTERS/Faisal Al Nasser

Embrace a New Saudi Arabia

by Dennis Ross | Jul 1, 2017 | Opinion

Saudi Arabia has a new crown prince. Mohammed bin Salman, known as MbS, is clearly now slated to succeed his father, King Salman. At 31, the kingdom has never seen anyone like him. He has been given very wide responsibilities as defense minister and overseer of the...