Middle East
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Sen. Chris Murphy's Lonely Quest to End the War in Yemen
The Connecticut senator on the U.S. role in yet another disastrous war in the Middle East, our 'head-scratching' ties with Saudi Arabia, and the Khashoggi case
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Protests Erupt Across Iran: What You Need to Know
Amid high stakes, it's a crisis that the United States ought to stay out of
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Trump Administration: Tillerson Out, Hawks In?
Trump's national security team looks like it's about to get a lot more warlike
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New Drone Strikes Underscore, Again, How Much Power We Give Trump
Americans rolled over for decades while we gave the executive branch unreviewable authority to kill – now that power is in the hands of an idiot
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Does Trump Want a New Middle East War?
The president appears to see Saudi Arabia as a vital part of his ill-conceived anti-Iran jihad
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Inside Egypt's LGBT Crackdown: One Band's Story
An openly gay man fronts Lebanon's Mashrou' Leila – and when fans waved rainbow flags at a show outside Cairo, the arrests soon followed
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Inside the Strange Saga of a Cairo Novelist Imprisoned for Obscenity
Before it was published, censors approved Ahmed Naji's subversive novel 'Using Life' – so how did he end up in jail for what he wrote?
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Tweets vs. War Crimes: Clinton's Plan to Solve the Middle East
Clinton campaign tweeted "plan to defeat ISIS" whose first step amounts to "defeat ISIS"
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Not Just Paris: Why Is Beirut's Brutal Terrorist Attack Being Ignored?
As the world mourns for Paris, I'm left wondering why my people aren't deemed worthy of the same collective grief
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Watch a Dispatch from the Scene of Saudi Arabia's Alleged War Crimes in Yemen
A road trip to the border where the Saudi-led coalition is bombing civilian areas
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