Syria: Jabhat al-Nusra’s Rebranding Aims To Ensure Group’s Survival
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Erdogan-Gulen Power Struggle Divides European Turks
Erdogan-Gulen Power Struggle Divides European Turks IPT News Investigative Project on Terrorism On the night of July 15, members...
Emperor Akihito of Japan needs Similar Dignity in Possible Abdication
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Terrorists enter Syria based on Gulf and NATO Intrigues: Blockade and Refugees
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Attack on Gülen Movement Increasingly a Cornerstone of Turkey’s Foreign Policy in the Balkans
Attack on Gülen Movement Increasingly a Cornerstone of Turkey’s Foreign Policy in the Balkans Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor By:...
Slow-motion Coup in Venezuela?
Slow-motion Coup in Venezuela? Phil Gunson – Senior Analyst, Andes International Crisis Group In recent weeks Nicolás Maduro appears to...
South Africa’s Local Election: ANC Cronyism is Catching Up
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China Quietly Displacing Both Russia and US From Central Asia
China Quietly Displacing Both Russia and US From Central Asia Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor By: Paul Goble The Jamestown...
Homosexual Raped and Brutally Murdered in Turkey: PC Liberal Betrayal of Real Refugees
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Japan and North Korea: Ballistic Missile Enters Japanese Waters and Surreal Reality
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The Struggle with Islamic State that Turkey Hoped to Avoid
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Nigeria Inquiry Concludes that Nigerian Troops Massacred over 340 Shia Muslims
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Circassians Divided Over Turkish Coup Attempt and Its Aftermath
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First Female Elected Governor of Tokyo: Yuriko Koike Promises to Reinvigorate Tokyo
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Visegrad Unity is Essential for Europe: Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, and Slovenia need Embedding
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Zimbabwe’s Threadbare Theatre of Reform
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France to Form a National Guard in Order to Assist against Sunni Islamist Terrorists
France to Form a National Guard in Order to Assist against Sunni Islamist Terrorists Walter Sebastian, Michiyo Tanabe, and...
Nice Holiday for Merkel during Death and Terror in Germany, then says No Refugee Change
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Japan in ¥28 Trillion Economic Package and a Ridiculously Small Increase in Hourly Rate for the Poor
Japan in ¥28 Trillion Economic Package and a Ridiculously Small Increase in Hourly Rate for the Poor Noriko Watanabe...
Militarization of the Caspian Sea: A Zero-Sum Game?
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Sunni Islamists butcher Christian Priest in France: Hungary and Visegrad Needed
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Israel Seeks to Create an Islamist and Sectarian Free Zone in Southern Syria: Independent Syria
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Pakistan’s LeJ Baluchistan Operations Ready for Resurgence
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Sunni Islamists Target the Shia in Afghanistan: ISIS Kill at least 80 Shia Muslims
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Germany in Shock: Many People Killed in Munich Attack but Motives Remain Unclear
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Edgar Degas Adored Japanese Art: Ideas of Distance, Impressionism, and art of the Renaissance
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Venezuela: Edge of the Precipice
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United Kingdom should stop Softbank from Buying ARM: Mass Debt and National Interests
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President Erdogan of Turkey Declares a State of Emergency
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Gulf and Western-Backed Terrorists in Syria Behead a Palestinian Boy after Taunting Him
Gulf and Western-Backed Terrorists in Syria Behead a Palestinian Boy after Taunting Him Murad Makhmudov and Lee Jay Walker...
Turkey under Despotic President Erdogan: Coup Plotters Rushed on Fear of Immediate Arrests
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Nagorno-Karabakh: New Opening, or More Peril?
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Military Coup in Turkey: President Erdogan and Divided Nation
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Japanese Buddhism, Kukai (774-835), and Koyasan: A lone cloud has no place to settle
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Central Mali: An Uprising in the Making?
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Suspected Sunni Islamist Terrorist Attack in France: 80 People Perish on Bastille Day
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