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Topic: Middle East (page 9)

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei; Mohammed bin Salman (AP/Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/Getty/Mark Wilson)

Sunni vs Shia? Too simple

Steven A. Cook
(Ahrar al-Sham via AP, File)

Andrea Williams - The Conversation
(Getty/Molly Riley-Pool)

Matthew Rozsa
In this March 29, 2017, photo, President Donald Trump speaks at a women's empowerment panel in the East Room of the White House in Washington. The Republican attempt to repeal Obamacare is dead. Well, maybe the timing just isn’t right yet. Hey, this will be easy! This is never-say-die Washington, where big legislative proposals that are in the casket one day suddenly show signs of a shallow pulse the next. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) (AP)

Michael J. Brenner - The Globalist
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Marine Le Pen; Donald Trump (Afp/getty Images/Ahmad Al-Rubaye/Patrick Kovarik/Olivier Douliery - Pool/Photo Montage by Salon)

How failed wars shape fascism

Steven A. Cook
Dick Cheney; Donald Trump; Paul Wolfowitz (AP/Jim Bryant/Getty/Joe Raedle/Reuters/Yuri Gripas)

Neocons to the "rescue"

Heather Digby Parton
In this Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014 photo, Smoke rises from explosions demolishing houses on the Egyptian side of the border town of Rafah as seen from the Palestinian side of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. With dynamite and heavy machinery, Egypt's army has been demolishing homes along its border with the Gaza Strip, after the military ordered residents out last week to make way for a planned buffer zone meant to stop militants and smugglers. (AP Photo/Adel Hana) (AP)

Danny Sjursen - TomDispatch.com
President Donald Trump listens in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, March 29, 2017. Sixty-two percent of Americans turned thumbs down on Trump’s handling of health care during the initial weeks of his presidency, according to a poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. It was his worst rating among seven issues the poll tested, which included the economy, foreign policy and immigration. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (AP)

William J. Astore - TomDispatch.com
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President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference about recent military actions and altered campaign promises. (AP)

A. Trevor Thrall - Cato Institute
A Syrian refugee girl holds her brother as she walks at an informal refugee camp, at Al-Marj town in Bekaa valley, east Lebanon Lebanon, Saturday, April 8, 2017. For the millions of Syrian refugees scattered across camps and illegal settlements across the region, the chemical attack on a town in northern Syria and subsequent U.S. strike was a rare moment when the world briefly turned its attention to Syria, before turning away again. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar) (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Taylor Link
(AP/Evan Vucci)

Max Blumenthal, Ben Norton - Alternet
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (AP/Mohamed El-Shahed)

Egypt goes from bad to worse

Steven A. Cook
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U.S. marines run with their combat gear to take position in the suburbs of the town of Nasariyah in Iraq March 24, 2003. U.S. marines were fighting on Monday to take control of Nassiriya where the city's defenders were putting up stout resistance. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj Pictures of the month March 2003 DS/FMS (© Reuters Photographer / Reuters)

Andrew Bacevich - TomDispatch.com
(Reuters/HBO)

Fear of a Muslim planet

Steven A. Cook, Michael Brooks
(AP Photo/Lolita Baldor)

Michael J. Brenner - The Globalist
(Shutterstock/Salon)

Thou shalt not bounce checks

Bex B
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Fake news in the Middle East

Steven A. Cook
Bassem Youssef (Getty/Khaled Desouki)

"Egyptian Jon Stewart" lessons

Sophia A. McClennen
(Getty/Joe Raedle)

Tom Engelhardt - TomDispatch.com
FILE - In this Oct. 6, 2014, file photo, Army soldiers search Iraqis amid tight security during Eid al-Adha celebrations in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraq’s fractured army has begun to regroup and stage modest, localized attacks on the Islamic State militants who routed them last spring and summer, but they are unlikely to be ready to launch a major counteroffensive for many months, senior U.S. military officials said Thursday. () (AP Photo/Karim Kadim, File)

Danny Sjursen - TomDispatch.com
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SANLIURFA, TURKEY - OCTOBER 20: (TURKEY OUT) An explosion rocks Syrian city of Kobani during a reported suicide car bomb attack by the militants of Islamic State (ISIS) group on a People's Protection Unit (YPG) position in the city center of Kobani, as seen from the outskirts of Suruc, on the Turkey-Syria border, October 20, 2014 in Sanliurfa province, Turkey. According to Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, Turkey will reportedly allow Iraqi Kurdish fighters to cross the Syrian border to fight Islamic State (IS) militants in the Syrian city of Kobani while the United States has sent planes to drop weapons, ammunition and medical supplies to Syrian Kurdish fighters around Kobani. (Photo by Gokhan Sahin/Getty Images) (Reuters/Lucas Jackson/Getty/Saul Loeb/Gokhan Sahin/Salon)

Does Team Trump want holy war?

Conor Lynch
Vladimir Putin (AP/Khalil Hamra/Photo montage by Salon)

Putin's Middle East plan

Steven A. Cook
Parade-goers vie for beads and trinkets during the Krewe of Proteus Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans, Monday, Feb. 16, 2015. The day is known as Lundi Gras, the day before Mardi Gras. () (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

mardi gras beads

David Redmon - The Conversation
Glenn Beck (AP/Timothy D. Easley)

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