Spain plays a relatively inconsequential role in the fight against Islamic State.
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The location and targeting of Islamic State’s latest attack, on the Spanish city of Barcelona, deviates from the group’s previous efforts.
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What caused the latest crisis at the world’s most explosive piece of real estate, and could it happen again?
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The international law on arms transfers is clear: suppliers are at least partly accountable for recipients’ human rights violations.
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Survey data shows that Iraqis of all sectarian stripes agree on what’s wrong with their country.
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One of Israel’s most controversial leaders, Benjamin Netanyahu is making the most of a chance to fly under the radar.
The Al Jazeera Media Network headquarters in Doha, Qatar.
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When the network launched in 1996, it radically changed the media landscape of the Arab world. Two decades later, some regimes are still seething.
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The deal will give a much-needed boost to Iran’s economy and lend important support to Rouhani’s government.
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Vexed argument in the Labor Party about relations with Israel is set to come to a head at the conference later this month of the party’s dominant New South Wales branch. Barring the successful intervention…
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US-backed forces in Iraq and in Syria are in the process of rooting Islamic State (IS) fighters out of their strongholds in northern Iraq and eastern Syria. In the case of Mosul in Iraq, the removal of…
Destination: Tehran.
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The Middle East could be witnessing a foreign policy misfire of epic proportions.
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Donald Trump’s predecessor once made an empty threat against Bashar al-Assad – and it didn’t end well.
A handout aerial image made available by the Combined Joint Task Force shows the destroyed remains of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri.
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The destruction of the al-Nuri Mosque and its minaret is a sad blow to Iraqi culture – and a rallying cry too.
Ishtar (on right) comes to Sargon, who would later become one of the great kings of Mesopotamia.
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Love, it is said, is a battlefield, and it was no more so than for the first goddess of love and war, Ishtar. Her legend has influenced cultural archetypes from Aphrodite to Wonder Woman.
Arab Spring protesters were often below 24 years old. Cairo January 28, 2011. R.
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A certain combination of demographics and corruption can lead to political upheaval.
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What’s so ‘brotherly’ about a major diplomatic spat?
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The sustained assault on IS’s two main strongholds could be followed by years of local and global insurgency.
Recent Tunis protests.
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Protests in Tunisia and Morocco show underlying causes of the Arab uprisings remain intact.
Iranian policemen at the parliament building in Tehran, June 7.
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The world’s response to two terrorist incidents in Iran was telling, and ominous.
A boy is evacuated during an attack on the Iranian parliament in central Tehran on June 7 2017.
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Terrorist attacks in Iran are evidence that, in the Middle East, there are far too many moving parts for US President Donald Trump’s recent trip to have changed much on the ground.
Doha, under a cloud.
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Saudi Arabia and Qatar have butted heads before, but this time seems different.