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Iraq and Turkey Launch a Game-Changing Infrastructure Project
A 1,200-kilometer corridor connecting Iraq to Europe could transform the region’s trade landscape—and Iraq’s future
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Ahmed Alrayyis
Lebanon’s Struggle for Answers Five Years After the Blast
Despite renewed political will, no one has been held accountable for one of the world’s largest non-nuclear blasts
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Olivia Cuthbert
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The Resistance That Devours Its Own
 • Hamza Howidy
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The Fall of Kabul Was a Century in the Making
 • Shabnam Nasimi
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Afghanistan’s Education Crisis Affects Boys Too
 • Olivia Cuthbert
From Science to Sharia
 • Ahmad Mansoor Ramizy
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The Story of Barzakh Café
 • Reid Newton
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I Risked My Life to Oppose Extremism. Now Germany Wants to Deport Me.
 • Hamza Howidy
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Iran Expels Over One Million Afghans as Refugee Crisis Escalates
Despite border chaos and mass deportations, Afghan entrepreneurs are offering refugees a chance to rebuild through work, not handouts
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Ahmad Mansoor Ramizy
The New Syrian Army Is Built to Fail
A pluralistic society demands a pluralistic military—not one ruled by the ideology of those at the top.
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Amjad Aun
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The Engineered Divisions Imposed on Iraq
The country’s sectarian strife is less a product of history than a legacy of foreign interference
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HUSSAM ALHAJ
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The World Moved On. She Stayed to Defend Yazidi Women.
British-Kurdish genocide survivor Taban Shoresh founded an NGO to support Yazidi women left behind by war, as global attention — and aid — moves…
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Olivia Cuthbert
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Reimagining US Foreign Aid as a Tool for Change
A smarter, more targeted approach to foreign aid can foster real development without wasting taxpayer money.
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Faisal Saeed Al Mutar
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Jen Brick Murtazashvili
Lebanon and Iraq Brace for Syria’s Next Implosion
The countries must act now to insulate themselves from the consequences of their neighbor's decline
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Basim Mardan
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The Trio Vying to Rule a Broken Syria
Syria’s future lies in the hands of three warlords: an ideologue, a patriarch, and a chameleon
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Ammar Abdulhamid
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