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Syria: The Battleground Between Sunnis And Shiites

By Alon Ben-Meir Apr 11th 2012 - 01:51PM

In a late 2011 article , I argued that Syria's upheaval thrusts Turkey and Iran into a collision course because they have opposing geostrategic interests in an outcome that neither party can afford to ignore.

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Celebrating Gandhi's Birthday by Imagining Nonviolence in the Middle East

By Paul Brandeis Raushenbush Oct 01st 2011 - 09:07PM

As the bombs fell in Baghdad at the very beginning of the Iraq war, an Iraqi doctor held a young girl whose body was bloody from missile fragments.

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Risk Of War Greatly Increased By Warm El Nino Weather, Study Suggests

By Michael Rundle Aug 25th 2011 - 03:02AM

Wars and civil conflict are more likely to happen when people feel the heat, a study has shown.

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