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As migrants from Syria and other countries pour into Europe, President Obama says the United States will take ten thousand. And so Americans are watching…
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Some say the U.S. should take in additional refugees or send more aid, while others oppose increasing the refugee quota because of security concerns. Here's what they've said in their own words.
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A powerful group of radical Islamists has been overwhelming Iraqi cities and towns. The stunning onslaught has the capital Baghdad now girding for battle…
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Three years after what was dubbed the “Arab Spring”, Egypt is preparing for its first election since a military coup last summer. The candidate presumed…
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U.S. ties with Russia have always been complicated, but recently they have heated up even more. Disputes over how to approach the war in Syria, Russia’s…
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Clarinetist and composer Kinan Azmeh was born in Damascus, but now lives in New York, where he wakes up to bad news each day. One of his compositions, “A…
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Only a few days after international weapons inspectors arrived in Syria, they’ve begun destroying Syria’sstockpile of chemical weapons along with the…
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The Constitution gives Congress the right to declare war and the President to wage it. Yet many presidents have taken military action, without involving…
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Phil Sands is Syria correspondent for The National, an English language daily newspaper based in Abu Dhabi. He was living in Damascus when the uprising…
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New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte says she's skeptical of the credibility of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syrian President Bashar Assad and the…