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A member loyal to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) waves an ISIS flag in the Syrian city of Raqqa, on June 29, 2014. (Reuters/Stringer)
![Opinion: The Middle East faces an existential challenge](https://eng-archive.aawsat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ISIS-fighter-in-Raqqa.jpg)
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A Chinese man cycles in Tiananmen Square in Beijing on June 3, 2014. (AFP PHOTO/GOH CHAI HIN)
![Security tight on eve of Tiananmen anniversary](https://eng-archive.aawsat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/1401785580774738500.jpg)
Security tight on eve of Tiananmen anniversary
Beijing, AP—Beijing put additional police on the streets and detained government critics on Tuesday as part of a security crackdown on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the crushing of pro-democracy protests centered on the capital’s Tiananmen Square. Police...Caption:
A man lays a wreath on the square outside the railway station in Kunming, southwest China’s Yunnan province on March 2, 2014. (AFP Photo)
![China blames separatists for knife attack; 33 dead](https://eng-archive.aawsat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/china.jpg)
China blames separatists for knife attack; 33 dead
Kunming, Reuters—Witnesses to chilling violence at a Chinese train station placed under heavy security on Sunday recalled moments of fear and chaos after at least 29 people were killed in what authorities called a terrorist attack by Xinjiang militants. Officials said...Caption:
Police cars are parked in front of a giant portrait of late Chinese Chairman Mao Zedong at the main entrance of the Forbidden City in Beijing, November 1, 2013. China’s domestic security chief believes a fatal vehicle crash in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in which five died was planned by a Uighur separatist group, designated as a terrorist organization by the United States and United Nations. (REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon)
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