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Why Obama Now 'Owns Syria'
The far-ranging implications of the president's decision to provide arms to anti-Assad rebels
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The far-ranging implications of the president's decision to provide arms to anti-Assad rebels
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How regimes take control of official media channels and push activists onto the Internet.
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We need to dismantle Assad's air capability to really give the opposition a leg up.
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A new UN report comes amid staggering casualty numbers and Obama's confirmation that the regime has used chemical weapons.
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It's too early to feel optimistic that the regime will reform itself.
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The crisis underscores the difficulty of reconciling humanitarian ideals with geopolitical concerns.
Some groups are making strides at ending child marriage and female genital mutilation by reaching out to the men in charge.
Sulome Anderson
The Taksim protests have brought together middle-class youth with another, longer-simmering conflict in one of Istanbul's Alevi neighborhoods.
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In the lead-up to the elections, some activists are fighting U.S. sanctions, even as they push for reform in their former homelands.
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The convoluted system in which a supreme leader supervises the president, who in turn represents the people.
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Those strained mouth movements! The jiggling! Some evidence that the Russian president might have a secret malady.
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Communist-era justifications for bigotry don't make sense anymore. What's behind lawmakers' opposition to gays?
Shervin Malekzadeh
Signs of promise in the Islamic Republic, ahead of Friday's elections.
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How a small group of "hidden influencers" spread their message far and wide.
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Some push-back in the comments against Fareed Zakaria's take on the Syria conflict's historical context.
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People "receive special content that is undermining the authority of the state and the values of the established state," the deputy prime minister says.
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The columnist argues that the U.S. should stay out of the country's civil war.
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Policymakers used to believe in a forceful projection of American authority. But after debacles in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya, they are turning inward.
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Little by little, Protestants and Catholics are coming together to form integrated teams, although tensions in their communities still run high.
Kambiz Hosseini
The tragic comedy of the upcoming presidential election, as told by Kambiz Hosseini
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