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West Asia's lost minorities: Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms
In his lively new book, Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms, Gerard Russell chronicles the emergence and survival of religious minorities like the Yazidis ...
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Tracking the Sony cyber attack
The New America Foundation's Tara Maller discusses if the skepticism that North Korea was behind the Sony hack is misplaced.
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'The Interview' grosses more than $1 million on Christmas
After being released on YouTube, Google Play and other streaming services Thursday, Sony is reporting that “The Interview” grossed more than $1 mil...
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Rabia Chaudry, Adnan Syed Family Friend, Opens Up About 'Serial' Finale
*"If there had been a major smoking gun, that would've been dispositive one way or another. I would've known it by now," said Rabia Chaudry. *
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In 2008 Mumbai Attacks, Piles of Spy Data, but an Uncompleted Puzzle
Mr. Goel said the focus in Washington shifted to a question already preoccupying the White House: “Is this going to lead to a war between Pakistan ...
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Serial has an ending, but it's not the end
“I wasn’t sure if this radio thing would work for us. I needed someone who could build a career on breaking this story,” Rabia told Dawn.com.
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US weighs options for response to North Korea
President Obama has promised a proportionate response to North Korea after the Sony cyber attack. New America Foundation's Tara Maller, GlobalPost'...
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Rabia Chaudry fights for Muslims — and Adnan
Chaudry embraces her role as a firebrand who, as she recently tweeted, is "shattering stereotypes" of veiled Muslim women. Buzzfeed named her this ...
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UN investigates Palestinian minister's death
The UN Security Council is investigating the death of Ziad Abu Ein, a Palestinian minister who died this month while leading a group of Palestinian...
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Pakistani Taliban threatens further violence following Peshawar school killings
The popular groundswell to suppress the Taliban may not endure, said Anatol Lieven, the author of "Pakistan: A Hard Country", in a phone interview ...
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I Started Serial, But It Didn’t End the Way I Had Hoped
A year ago I was not hoping Sarah Koenig would create a show based on the case that would become a worldwide sensation; I was hoping she would unco...
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ARABIC: Clinton: Choices or Elections
This article is in Arabic.
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Declining oil prices: OPEC vs. (future) Shale?
Partly as a result of the U.S. energy boom, oil prices have hit a five-and-a-half-year low
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Not just the faiths of Abraham
Mr Russell wants, in particular, to “give a voice” to the sects that are most vulnerable to extinction, either in the sense that their belief syste...
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Did torture help lead to bin Laden?
The Senate report provides the fullest accounting so far of the exact sequence of intelligence breaks that led the CIA to determine that the courie...
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ARABIC: The Modern State and Islam: The Impossibility of Crossing
*يُجادل وائل حلاق، أستاذ الفكر الإسلامي في جامعة كولومبيا، في هذا الكتاب المفاجىء أن تعبير "دولة إسلامية" ينطوي على تناقض جوهري، يعكس تناقض فكرة ال...
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Nuclear Negotiations, Scientific Literacy, and U.S.-India Relations
The role of scientific literacy in the nuclear negotiations with India manifested itself in three distinct manners: the science that directly infor...
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Should U.S. Change Its Policies For Hostage Situations?
Shane Harris joins MSNBC's The Reid Report to discuss the failed Special Forces attempt to rescue an American hostage held by al Qaeda and U.S. pol...
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Uruguay just took 6 Guantanamo detainees. Who will take the rest?
“While the transfer to Uruguay may prompt some other South American countries to take in released Guantanamo detainees, it really is too difficult ...
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How the ISIS war looks from Baghdad
Ollivant, who recently returned from a visit to Baghdad surveying the military and political situation, sat down with me to talk about what he saw....