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(NY Times) – There was something about Diyaa that his wife’s brothers didn’t like. He was a tyrant, they said, who, after 14 years of marriage, wouldn’t let their sister, Rana, 31, have her own mobile phone. He isolated her from friends and family, guarding...

MOSUL, Iraq — The rip of machine gun fire disturbed the quiet on the second floor of a mosque in Mosul’s Zahra district. Lying on their bellies across the room, three Iraqi soldiers peered over the guns they’d pointed through smashed windows, anxiously...

August 1. 1990: I was going on vacation to Malaysia. Turning into a human shield hostage wasn’t part of the strategy. Age 24. I boarded British Airways flight BA149 from London en route to Kuala Lumpur. having a regimen refueling quit in Kuwait...

"Dudes, we’re on our own. #independence #totallyrad #stickitkinggeorge" --A Twitter version of the Declaration of Independence; image from VIDEO The Devil With Hitler (1942) PT. 1 - YouTube [see also below entry in "Related Item"]. PUBLIC DIPLOMACY...

From Ian: PMW: Fatah: Violence and terror is Fatah’s way A recent post by Fatah on Facebook made it clear that fighting Israel militarily with weapons is still a central Fatah policy. A photo of Fatah members in military uniforms armed with automatic...