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Regional and related topics
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Buoyed by President Donald Trump's pledge to rebuild the U.S. armed forces, senior Pentagon officials have delivered to Congress plans for increasing the defense budget...
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Bloomberg/AP
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Sarah El Deeb |
2.7.2017
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Syrian authorities have killed as many as 13,000 people — possibly more — since the start of the 2011 uprising in mass hangings at a...
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Reuters
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Jeffrey Heller and Matt Spetalnick |
2.7.2017
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Seizing on an Iranian missile test, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and new U.S. President Donald Trump are nearing common ground on a tougher U.S....
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Reuters
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Bozorgmehr Sharafedin |
2.7.2017
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Iran said on Monday a recent missile trial launch was not intended to send a message to new U.S. President Donald Trump and to test...
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NBC News
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Cynthia McFadden, William Arkin and Tracy Connor |
2.7.2017
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The Navy SEAL raid in Yemen last week had a secret objective — the head of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, who survived and...
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Washington Post
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John Wagner and Philip Rucker |
2.7.2017
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The list, which includes domestic and overseas incidents, starts in September 2014. It includes some very heavily covered news events, including last year’s attack at...
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Military Times/AP
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Deb Riechmann and Eileen Sullivan |
2.6.2017
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Donald Trump's unpredictable foreign policy could hamper long-standing U.S. intelligence-sharing partnerships as countries react to a president who seeks closer ties to Russia and is...
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Stateside pilots like Jonathan handle most of the flying for the actual missions. But there’s about a two-second delay while control signals get beamed from...
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The two-and-a-half-year Islamic State occupation of Mosul has destroyed bonds of trust among the city’s residents, deepening rifts among sects and ethnicities that could take...
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Los Angeles Times
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Shashank Bengali and Sultan Faizy |
2.7.2017
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The United Nations has reported that 923 children in Afghanistan were killed last year, a 25% increase from 2015 and the most since the U.N....
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Reuters
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Andrew Osborn and Maria Tsvetkova |
2.6.2017
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The Kremlin said on Monday it did not agree with U.S. President Donald Trump's assessment of Iran as "the number one terrorist state" and a...
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Israel's parliament has passed a controversial law retroactively legalising about 4,000 homes built on settlements in the occupied West Bank....
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Politico
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Nahal Toosi |
2.7.2017
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The suit could bolster critics of the Saudi-targeted law, who warned U.S. lawmakers that the statute opened the door to legal claims that ultimately could...
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Flames ripped through the complex housing Kuwait's new opera house on Monday, just three months after the futuristic $770-million venue opened to the public....
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Army Times
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Charlsy Panzino |
2.6.2017
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U.S. forces in Afghanistan continue to target al-Qaida and the Islamic State in Khorasan, steadily decimating their ranks over the last 12 months....
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PBS
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Jane Ferguson and Alessandro Pavone |
2.6.2017
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Iraqi forces, backed by U.S. support, have retaken one side of the city of Mosul. Now a military offensive to recapture the rest of the...
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Reuters
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Rodi Said and Tom Perry |
2.6.2017
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An alliance of U.S.-backed militias started a new phase of its campaign against the Islamic State-held city of Raqqa on Saturday, aiming to complete its...
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CNN Politics
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Eli Watkins |
2.6.2017
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House Speaker Paul Ryan said the nuclear agreement with Iran is probably going to stay in place, despite significant Republican opposition to the deal....
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The National
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Emad Mostaque |
2.6.2017
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In the GCC, regional disparities are acute at present because of violent conflict. As the security situation begins to improve, a potentially fruitful strategy is...
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Representatives from Russia, Turkey and Iran have kicked off a technical meeting in Kazakhstan's capital Astana to discuss details of the implementation of the Syrian...
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YouGov
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Bridget Gleeson |
2.6.2017
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A Recent YouGov Study has found that millennials in the GCC are increasingly concerned about the effects of global warming on the climate and its...
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Huck Magazine
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Jessica Holland |
2.6.2017
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Roller derby has made its way to Beirut and slammed down with an intentional thud. These women aren’t just pioneers: they’re the architects of a...
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Reuters
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Chris Michaud |
2.6.2017
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Several technology giants, including Apple, Google and Microsoft, banded together on Sunday to file a legal brief opposing President Donald Trump's temporary immigration ban, arguing...
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Defense One
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Andrew Exum |
2.6.2017
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America cannot punish its elected officials for allowing its military, diplomatic corps, and intelligence services to take risks necessary to pursue its interests....
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Defense One
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Ben Watson |
2.6.2017
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As Donald Trump starts his presidency, the United States has agreements to come to the defense of more than 50 other nations....
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Defense One
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Simon Cottee |
2.6.2017
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The trope posits an overly simplistic understanding of jihadist radicalization, and demeans Muslims in general....
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Newsweek
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Max Wrey |
2.5.2017
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There are undeniable investment opportunities, especially in the energy and banking sectors, but for many the political and economic risks may remain prohibitively high for...
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Asia and the Middle East have the largest selection of freight and urban transport projects in the world with more than $642bn worth of planned...
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