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  • Africa

  How ISIS Is Violently Expanding Across Africa

  nationalinterest.org - Maya Carlin

  ISIS’ modus operandi—securing and metamorphosing pre-existing militant groups to serve as conduits for terror—has proven to be a successful strategy …

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  • Middle East

  'The Queen’s File': How the Mossad Got to King Hussein of Jordan’s Mother

  haaretz.com - Amir Oren

  His grandfather was assassinated, his father incapacitated. Now Hussein was king of Jordan, and Israel needed a covert, deniable but direct line to …

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  • Israel

  Leading U.S. Jewish Groups Urge Israel to Act Against 'Extremist' Settler Violence in West Bank

  haaretz.com - Ben Samuels

  Seven U.S. Jewish organizations call on the Israeli government to take 'univocal action' against settler violence that has been 'increasing and …

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  • Israel Defense Forces

  Why It Matters That Support for Israel Among Young Evangelicals Is Falling - The Bulwark

  The Bulwark - Peter Wehner

  Since the founding of the modern state of Israel in 1948, American evangelical Protestants have been among its strongest and most loyal supporters. …

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  • Humanitarianism

  Senior humanitarian describes 'horror scenes' in Syria camps

  United Nations

  Well below zero temperatures hitting Syria this week have turned camps for internally displaced people into disaster zones, the UN Deputy Regional …

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  Iraq: Roadside bomb blast kills three soldiers, injures one

  alaraby.co.uk

  Three Iraqi soldiers were killed on Monday morning in bomb blast targeting their patrol on a road in Kirkuk city, north of the capital Baghdad, a …