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Pope's visit to Turkey will ease relations

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TURKEY/VATICAN

Although Turks' response to the outrage in Paris on January 7 has been mixed, with some Islamist newspapers and their readers justifying it as revenge for insults to the Prophet…

Paris attacks expose new era of insecurity

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FRANCE

France has been shaken to its core by homegrown jihadist attacks that last week claimed 17 lives in three days, the worst of its recent history. So far, the reaction of the French…

Pakistan counterinsurgency plan promises mixed results

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PAKISTAN

Claiming the lives of at least 21 people, this was the deadliest attack since the TTP siege on an army school in the provincial capital of Peshawar in mid-December 2014.

Cameroon anglophone crisis may enter new stalemate

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CAMEROON

Biya's rare public address follows a recent boycott called for by separatist groups in the predominantly anglophone Northwest and Southwest regions following the sentencing of…

Intelligence imbroglios muddy Argentine government

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ARGENTINA

Pachter, now in Israel, said that he feared for his life after his travel plans were reported on the government's Twitter account and his phone was allegedly tapped. His…

Erdogan is on path taking Turkey away from the West

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TURKEY

The Turkish leadership believes that a new US administration may stand back from its predecessor's criticisms of Turkey and be better placed to strike a deal with Russia and…

Brussels attacks may lead to policy change in Europe

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BELGIUM

These are the first terrorist attacks on EU territory since the Paris attacks in November 2015. The attacks on Zaventem Airport and Maelbeeck metro station come just four days…

Turkey will shift focus to Kurdish guerrillas in Iraq

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TURKEY

Since the breakdown of the peace process with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in July 2016, Erdogan’s policy of all-out violence has to outward appearances smashed the Kurds’…

Politics will check scope of US retrenchment abroad

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UNITED STATES

President Barack Obama has drawn criticism from traditional US allies over a series of interviews with Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic magazine entitled 'The Obama Doctrine', in…

Belarus leader tests EU's will to punish him

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BELARUS/EU

The measures are a response to the May 23 diversion of a Ryanair airliner to Minsk airport on the pretext of a bomb warning. When the plane landed, the Belarus authorities…