Greater Middle East
Yemen war fuels dope-for-guns trade
Both sides in Yemen's bitter Sunni-Shi'ite divide—equally intolerant of hashish-smokers and khat-chewers—are turning to the dope trade to fund their arsenals.
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PKK announces deal with Turkish state
Turkey and the Kurdish rebel movement announced a landmark political deal that calls for the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to lay down arms and join the civil political process.
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Syria rebel gets five years for war crimes
A Swedish court sentenced Syrian refugee Mouhannad Droub to five years in prison after convicting him of abusing a captured member of dictator Bashar Assad's forces.
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Bahrain court convicts 11 of attack on police
A Bahraini court found 11 Shi'ities guilty of a attack carried out last year and sentenced three to death. The others received life in prison and will be stripped of their citizenship.
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Egypt: activist gets five years in retrial
An Egyptian court sentenced secular activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah to five years in prison in a retrial on charges stemming from the 2011 uprising.
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Turkish troops in Kobani incursion
Turkish forces crossed into Syria, officially to relocate an Ottoman historic site that had been threatened by ISIS—but also to intimidate the autonomist Kurds in control of the region?
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ISIS and the neocons: fearful symmetry?
The map that ISIS has drawn up of its proposed "caliphate" has internal borders closely mirroring the new borders that neocons seek to impose on the Middle East.
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Bahrain: investigation of opposition online content
Bahrain's Ministry of Interior initiated a criminal investigation into alleged illegal content posted by the country's main opposition group, a-Wefaq National Islamic Society.
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Rights groups call for release of Syria activists
A coalition of international rights groups called for the release of three Syrian journalists who have been held without trial for three years under the country's Anti-Terrorism Law.
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Morsi goes on trial over espionage allegations
An Egyptian court put ex-president Mohammed Morsi on trial over accusations of spying and endangering national security by leaking information to Qatar.
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Kurdish forces drive ISIS back from Kobani
Kurdish forces continue to drive ISIS back from Kobani, and have retaken more than 100 villages from the jihadists since pushing the last of them out of the urban center.
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Amnesty: Egypt covering up protester deaths
Amnesty International charged that the Egyptian government is covering up the deaths of more than two dozen people in protests on the anniversary of the 2011 uprising.