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Items by Mohamad Bazzi
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How Congress can push Saudi Arabia on Yemen
The Trump administration is ending one of the most important elements of US military assistance to the Saudi-led war in Yemen: the refuelling of Saudi warplanes. The Nov. 10 announcement is part of the White House response to the killing of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and follows appeals...
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Mosul's fall won't stop Daesh spreading fear
Iraqi officials have declared that Daesh’s caliphate is finished. On June 29, after months of urban warfare and US air strikes, Iraqi forces say they are on the verge of expelling the militants from their last holdouts in Mosul. “Their fictitious state has fallen,” an Iraqi general told state...
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Why Assad used chemical weapons
In the early hours of 7 April, the US military launched a series of missile strikes against an air base in northern Syria, in retaliation for the Syrian regime’s chemical weapons attack against civilians three days earlier. The strike shows that President Donald Trump is more willing to use military...
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Trump can't fight Daesh without wading into Syria's war
Over the course of the US presidential campaign, Donald Trump changed his mind on many issues. But he’s been consistent on one foreign policy question: he wants to end American support for Syrian opposition groups fighting Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Trump argues that the United States should expend all of...
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What Trump should do about anti-Muslim hate crimes
In the five days after Donald Trump won the US presidential election, the Southern Poverty Law Center recorded more than 400 incidents of “hateful harassment and intimidation” of minorities. The center, which monitors hate speech nationwide, drew on news accounts, direct reports and social media postings to find that...