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Boys walk passed graffiti depicting a child suffering from malnutrition in a coffin along a street in Sana’a, Yemen. (Reuters)

Yemeni Media to Address the West in English

by Sa'ed Al-Abyadh | Apr 18, 2017 | Middle East

Jeddah- Yemen’s Information Ministry intends to launch an English newspaper and satellite channel to inform the international community of the violations and practices of rebels against the Yemeni people. Yemen’s Minister of Information Muammar al-Eryani...

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Protests in Bahrain have usually been marred by violence. (Reuters)

Iranian Militias in Bahrain

by Salman Al-dossary | Apr 6, 2017 | Opinion

The quiet kingdom on the Arabian Gulf has experienced a tough crisis over six years of chaos, explosions and sabotage. Bahrain has been shouting loud for six years: This is not a revolution nor a peaceful protest, but a riot supported by Iran. The West, however, only...

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Saudi Arabia’s King Salman is honored by the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) in Kuala Lumpur in this picture released March 1, 2017. Reuters

King Salman in Asia: the New Silk Road

by Salman Al-dossary | Mar 2, 2017 | Opinion

One of the most important aspects of Saudi Arabia’s foreign policy in the past decade has been the enhancement and diversification of its partnerships, and expanding its political options on the international arena. Surely, the Saudi approach to East Asia is not only...

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A 2014 image taken from a propaganda video allegedly shows the leader of the ISIS Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. (AFP/Getty Images)

As ISIS Loses Territory, it Seeks to Survive Online

by Greg Miller | Feb 15, 2017 | Features

Washington – Al-Qaeda’s main affiliate in Iraq avoided extinction at the hands of U.S. and Iraqi forces a decade ago by backing away from military engagements and moving the remnants of its network underground until its reemergence as ISIS. That successor...

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Illustration by Ileana Soon – The Washington Post

‘What’s Happening to our Children?’ .. ISIS is Cultivating Adolescents

by Anthony Faiola, Souad Mekhennet | Feb 14, 2017 | Lifestyle & Culture

The threat presented by ISIS is taking on a new form: child terrorists either directly in contact with or inspired by the militant group. Even as it suffers setbacks on the battlefield in Iraq and Syria, ISIS is cultivating adolescents in the West, who are being asked...