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An armored police vehicle blocks a road leading to a nightclub
where a gun attack took place during a New Year’s party in Istanbul,
Turkey, on Sunday. Ismail Coskun/Ihlas News Agency via REUTERS

Terrorism Unifies World from Aleppo to Berlin

by Hani Nasira | Jan 3, 2017 | Features

Dubai- As the world celebrated Christmas and the New Year, terrorism addressed its message to the whole world, from Turkey, France, Germany to Asia and the Americas… ISIS has threatened all continents, and despite the crisis it is facing in Iraq and Syria, the...

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Francois Fillon arrives for a book signing promotional session of his book “Faire” on October 8, 2015 in Blois, central France. AFP PHOTO / Guillaume SOUVANT

Dear Francois, You’re Wrong on Syria

by Amir Taheri | Nov 25, 2016 | Opinion

On Sunday, France’s former Prime Minister Francois Fillon may win the primary organized by the French Republican Party and centrist allies to become their nominee in next year’s presidential election. As far as I am concerned this should be good news. The program that...

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Turkish army tanks make their way towards the Syrian border town of Jarablus, Syria August 24, 2016 Reuters

Syria’s Federalism: Dilemma of Solutions

by Nazeer Rida | Aug 27, 2016 | Features

Beirut-Turkey’s cross-border operation in Syria and the forced move of the Kurdish militias from the Euphrates River’s west to its east have dealt a severe blow to Kurdish separatists who were planning on establishing their autonomous political federation in northern...

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A Syrian boy is comforted as he cries next to the body of a relative who died in a reported airstrike on April 27, 2016 in the rebel-held neighborhood of al-Soukour in the northern city of Aleppo. AFP

Britain Rejects Assad’s Siege of Syrian Cities

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 20, 2016 | Middle East

London-Britain’s Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has called the current Syrian situation “dire” and said the country faced a “terrible humanitarian catastrophe.” “We have very serious issues before us today. We have an unfolding humanitarian...

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A Kurdish refugee boy from the Syrian town of Kobani holds onto a fence that surrounds a refugee camp in the border town of Suruc, Sanliurfa province. Yannis Behrakis/Reuters

Yildirim: We will not Restore Ties with Assad, he Should Leave along with ISIS

by Said Abdul Razzak | Jul 15, 2016 | Middle East

Ankara-Turkey’s streets sank in the floods of conflicting comments concerning restoring relations with Syria and whether such a step would be taken under Bashar Assad’s regime or after he leaves. Shortly following the statement of Turkish Prime Minister...