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Pakistan's involvement in the U.S.-led “Board of Peace” for Gaza has sparked debate, framed as a diplomatic intervention yet ...

Emmanuel Razavi calls the Islamic Republic of Iran a "narco state" for the smuggling he says its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) carries out to finance terrorist activities abroad, and to ...

In the spring of 1989, a 21-year-old Iraqi university student named Ali came home and made a shocking discovery: On the living-room table of his family’s home was a copy of The Satanic Verses. A ...