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The Rise of the Sunni Crescent in 2025: The US and the Middle East

The big victors in the rise of a Lebanon-Syria-Jordan Sunni Crescent are Turkiye and the Sunni Arab Gulf monarchies

The Israeli army continued demolishing buildings east of the Zeitoun and Tuffah neighborhoods, as well as refugee camps in central Gaza

The leaders of five significant armed groups claimed that they had adopted the idea of “the state’s monopoly on the use of force

Ironically, the strike was fully supported by the Muslim president of Nigeria, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu

During this two-year campaign of extermination, more than 20,000 Palestinian children were murdered

The Paris Treaty envisioned the economic and social transformations needed to keep the planet from overheating to unlivable levels

Bennoune He wrote not only of innumerable massacres by French commanders of local populations but also of a vast transfer of landed wealth

Much of the discussion about the melting of massive ice sheets during a time of climate change addresses its effects on people

The region has always developed – not by oil, war or empire, but by their collateral effects of connecting peoples, ideas and economies