Every minute, one person is sold over an international border. Human trafficking is now the fastest growing international crime; it is second in size only to the drug trade and …
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Israel has had an easy time on the Golan Heights since 1974, when a United States-brokered ceasefire arrangement came into effect and a United Nations observer force deployed in a …
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Lebanon without a government feels remarkably similar to Lebanon with a government. The political establishment in this country is so fickle and dysfunctional that the cogs and levers that actually …
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Brigadier General Sarhad Qader, the police chief of the troubled Iraqi city of Kirkuk, sighed as he flipped through the photos of the officers killed in bombings earlier in January. …
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Since the American engagement in Iraq was downsized, other countries have continued to gain higher profiles there, and Iraq’s economic allegiances — and its resources — are being wooed by …
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Prime Minister Najib Mikati announced his resignation Friday evening, thereby dissolving the current government. Mikati must now present a written resignation to President Michel Sleiman; according to the constitution, his …
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Nowruz, or new year, makes much of March in Iran a joyful celebration of renewal, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is feeling the rising sap. The president was welcomed back from a …
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Hearing people fall back on the refrain of labeling Beirut the “Paris of the Middle East” grates the nerves not only because it is a lazy cliché but also because …
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They say a lie can be half way around the world while the truth is still getting its boots on. As the murder of leftist politician Chokri Belaid and the …
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The International Criminal Court (ICC) on February 7 ordered the Libyan government to immediately hand over former intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi for his alleged role in orchestrating the 1988 Lockerbie …