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Planning for Defeat

Foreign Policy An Iraqi whom I will call Ahmed lives in Saidiya, an area in south Baghdad where, in the nineteen-eighties, the regime of Saddam Hussein built large houses for

Amid civil war, reports mean little

The intense focus on Gen. David H. Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker obscures the essential irrelevance of the report they will make to Congress on Monday and,

Non-Turkish Misgivings

What causes astonishment, rather than admiration, in the aftermath of the recent victory of the Turkish Justice and Development Party, are the congratulations and comments expressed by many Islamists in

Brotherhood trial adjourns to Sunday amid allegations of police theft

The military trial of Muslim Brotherhood Deputy Chairman Khayrat El Shater and 39 others has been adjourned to Sunday, Sept. 9, after its tenth meeting on Tuesday devolved into an

Egypt Strives to Quell Mubarak Rumors

A prosecutor plans to question the editor of a newspaper that raised questions about the health of Egypt’s leader, a judicial official said Tuesday in the latest step by the

New version of political Islam

he victory of moderate Islamists in Turkey’s general and presidential elections coincided with a concerted crackdown by authorities in Egypt and Jordan against the Islamists.