In a fragrant garden near San Francisco, Hamid Hayat, 43, tells his story over a coldening frittata. He is a thin man in jeans, a T-shirt and a Dallas Cowboys cap. Almost
The US and Israel conducted dozens of airstrikes on 8 December 2024 targeting Syria, following the dramatic collapse of the Assad regime. This occurred amid concerns that radical and terrorist groups could
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Ahmad Hussein Ash-Shara, widely known as Abu Muhammad al-Julani, was born in Damascus in 1982 to a lower-middle-class Sunni Arab family. His father owned a grocery store, and al-Julani assisted him while
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The raging controversy over the Bharatiya Janata Party’s allegation that the Congress Party leadership is hand in glove with the famous US financier George Soros with an infamous track record of funding
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In 2015, when the Russian armed forces launched a military operation in Syria, it marked a turning point in the post-Soviet era. The collapse of the USSR had caused a dramatic decline
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The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) is a monumental international treaty that establishes the laws governing our vast oceans and maritime activities. Drafted in 1982 and implemented
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The BRICS Summit held in Kazan from October 22–24, 2024, brought attention to several defining factors regarding Latin American countries that will be important for the continent’s political and economic development in
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Going ‘where the oil is’ “You’ve got to go where the oil is. I don’t think about it [political volatility] very much,” Cheney told a meeting of Texas oilmen in 1998 when
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by Our Correspondent in Doha Reports from multiple sources suggest a major shift in the Syrian power struggle as President Bashar al-Assad has reportedly fled Damascus amid a growing rebel offensive. According
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Editorial In 1997, George F. Kennan, a key architect of post-World War II American diplomacy, issued a striking warning that should have reverberated through history but was, tragically, ignored. He warned that
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Between November 15 and 16, 2024, the government of Peru hosted the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum. This 21-country gathering that first started in 1989 brings together the major countries in the
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