While the Saudi-Iranian oil rivalry is ostensibly the business of these two countries, it has always had an international dimension, overshadowed by the US.
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Killing al-Baghdadi has not quashed the Islamic State’s version of the caliphate.
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The Trump administration’s action will have political and practical implications, but it is unclear exactly how severe they will be.
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Since US troops left their region, roughly 180,000 Kurds of northeastern Syria have been displaced, and over 200 have been killed.
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People across the world are demonstrating their discontent in increasingly creative and disruptive ways.
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Despite these daunting challenges, governments have the capability and responsibility to increase national readiness for extreme events.
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Already, several proposals are taking shape in the House and Senate that would impose financial sanctions on Turkish officials, restrict weapons sales to Turkey and otherwise punish Turkey for its…
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That killing of Osama Bin Laden was widely credited with sealing President Barack Obama’s reelection the following year.
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The 1.5 million Lebanese Sunnis, Shias and Christians who have for weeks been walking side by side, holding hands and raging against the system are not merely protesting.
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The US defence community is coming to understand that AI will significantly transform, if not completely reinvent, the world’s military power balance.
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The list of countries whose citizens are banned from entering the United States include Muslim-majority countries Iran, Syria, Libya, Yemen and Somalia, as well as North Korea and Venezuela.
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By the time Baghdadi took over, a rift had grown between the wider Al-Qaeda group and Islamic State.
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The tempo of IS attacks has shifted from Iraq to Syria with the previously hidden insurgency reemerging.
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The problems for Iraq are deep-rooted and institutional, and if not addressed may yet escalate into a full scale revolution.
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One US concern is that Turkey could perceive the move as a push away from NATO. That could lead to Turkey seeking closer ties with Russia.
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