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The first world leader to telephone Trump after his victory was Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, a former field marshal who orchestrated a military coup, in 2013, against a democratically elected President from the Muslim Brotherhood...
Aleppo looks set to fall to Assad, a turning point in Syria's awful war. We'll ask if Assad now looks set to win, and what that means for Syria and the region. Smoke rises after rebel fighters launch a mortar shell on residential neighborhood in west ...
"This is one of the worst humanitarian crises since World War II," said Robin Wright, joint fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center and the U.S. Institute of Peace. She said about half a million people have died in this conflict so far. The Middle East ...
The motives behind the rampage at Ohio State University, on Monday, by Abdul Razak Ali Artan, an eighteen-year-old Somali-born student, have yet to be determined, but the event could have come straight out of the Islamic State’s manual—and it appears to have inspired him.
The Islamic State is now fighting to hang on to its two most valuable properties. On October 17th, Iraqi forces launched the long-awaited offensive to liberate Mosul, the largest city under Islamic State control, with two million residents. On November 6th, rebels in the Syrian Democratic Forces launched Euphrates Rage, an operation to free Raqqa, a city of some two hundred thousand.
The fall of Aleppo is the biggest victory for Assad in the grisly six-year war, which has killed more than four hundred thousand people and left more than half of Syria’s population, originally twenty-two million, dependent on international aid for daily survival.
The rampage in Berlin on Monday—which the German government has now deemed a terrorist attack, though the motive behind the attack was still murky—was right out of the jihadi literature. Around 8 p.m., a black semi-trailer jumped the curb and barrelled at forty miles an hour into an outdoor Christmas market.