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Regional and related topics
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Reuters
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Phil Stewart |
5.12.2017
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U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis voiced strong support for Turkey's fight against PKK militants after talks with Turkey's prime minister on Thursday, as Ankara fumes...
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ESPN
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Steve Fainaru |
5.11.2017
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Backed by FIFA's tacit support, Bashar al-Assad's government in Syria has woven soccer into its grisly campaign of oppression, tearing apart a generation of players....
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Frontera News
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Ridhi Khaitan |
5.12.2017
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Traditionally considered an oil-producing region, the Middle East (GULF) is slowly coming into the global limelight for its investments in the technology sector. The region...
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Herald Net
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David Ignatius |
5.12.2017
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The “land bridge” would mean a striking reduction in travel distances: The overland rail connection between Haifa and Dammam in Saudi Arabia would be 1,763...
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Brink
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John Koob |
5.12.2017
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For two years running, the oil and gas sector has experienced hardship and a fight for survival not seen in decades. And while the havoc...
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The US State Department has approved the possible sale of 160 missiles to the United Arab Emirates for an estimated $2bn, the Pentagon said on...
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Newsweek
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Jack Moore |
5.11.2017
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In a particularly undiplomatic step for a foreign envoy, the U.S. ambassador to Qatar on Wednesday appeared to criticize President Donald Trump’s decision to fire...
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According to U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, “the incredibly destructive nature of Iranian and Hezbollah activities throughout the Middle East” should become the...
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Reuters
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Ellen Francis and Laila Bassam |
5.12.2017
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Lebanese Hezbollah said on Thursday that any future conflict between the Shi'ite group and Israel could take place inside Israeli territory, as tensions rise between...
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Yet there is a real worry that nothing the US does will deter Iran from pursuing its regional ambitions. Tehran insists, furthermore, that but for...
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Reuters
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Nidal al-Mughrabi |
5.11.2017
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One of Hamas's most senior officials said on Wednesday a document published by the Islamist Palestinian group last week was not a substitute for its...
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In today’s episode, Chris talks to Carl Mungazi about what he has seen throughout his travels in the Middle East. He discusses the successes and...
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BuzzFeed
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Mitch Prothero and Mike Giglio |
5.11.2017
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US Special Forces are deployed in southern Syria as part of an operation to train and assist Syrian rebels fighting ISIS, according to rebel leaders...
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USA Today
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Matthew Diebel |
5.11.2017
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Now the practice, which is banned in much of the Islamic world, faces a test in India — home to the world’s third-largest group of Muslims...
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Washington Post
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Kareem Fahim and Adam Entous |
5.11.2017
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Turkey has threatened to step up military action against Syrian Kurdish fighters allied with the United States in response to the Trump administration’s decision to...
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Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani launched a scathing attack on his conservative election rivals Monday, saying their era of “violence and extremism” was over....
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Some two years of fighting have reached a near stalemate in which the Houthi-Saleh faction controls the capital and much of the populated northwest, and...
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Bloomberg
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Deena Kamel |
5.11.2017
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Emirates Group, the biggest long-haul airline, posted its first decline in annual profit for five years as the low oil price weighed on Persian Gulf...
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Bloomberg
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Robin M. Mills |
5.10.2017
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China's Middle East energy footprint has been expanding. In February, it made a deal for a stake in Abu Dhabi’s onshore oil. In March, Saudi...
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Blockchain is gathering momentum in the Middle East, as banks and government agencies in the region overcome their initial suspicions and embark on projects using...
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Egypt's disorganization and Jordan's outdated weaponry made it possible for Israel to dominate the battlefield....
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It’s true that Facebook and Twitter are positive platforms for discussing social and political issues in the Middle East. Currently, in Egypt, a country of...
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TIME
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Jared Maslin |
5.10.2017
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The planes offer fresh evidence of a clandestine proxy war in Libya, in which Egypt, the U.A.E., and Russia are siding with Haftar in a...
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Military Times
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Leo Shane III and Joe Gould |
5.10.2017
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Reports of a proposed significant increase in the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan brought praise from critics of the drawdown of forces in the...
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The U.N. Refugee Agency says up to 245 migrants are missing and feared dead following shipwrecks in the Mediterranean over weekend....
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Special operations forces offer policymakers flexible, effective, and discreet ways to deal with the region’s complex conflicts, but many worry that overreliance on SOF could...
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Reuters
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Tulay Karadeniz and Tuvan Gumrukcu |
5.10.2017
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The angry reply came a week before President Tayyip Erdogan is due in Washington for his first meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, who approved...
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Islamabad would love to keep its distance from Riyadh’s looming showdown with Tehran. But now, having backed away from Yemen, it’s sent a top general...
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Reuters
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Bozorgmehr Sharafedin |
5.9.2017
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Staged or not, the slogans echoed the battle-cries of the broader election campaign, where Rouhani's rivals have focused on his handling of an economy threatened...
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Navigating the Persian Gulf is nothing compared to navigating the hostile warships that patrol it....
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