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The damaging detail behind the seizure of 15 British Royal Marines and sailors is that the troops were captured by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). Soaked with nationalist ideology, the IRGC is controlled by hard-line cleric Ayatullah Ali Khamenei, the ultimate font of religious and political power...
But Abbas may not be telling Rice everything that may inform U.S. policy considerations either. Many within the military wing of Hamas, the Islamic militants with whom Abbas now shares a "unity" government, refuse to recognize Israel or renounce armed resistance. Advisers to Abbas say he was tipped off by...
Meanwhile, Fatah insiders say that Abbas's pro-U.S. stance has led to his estrangement from his own Fatah party, and to the defection of many field commanders to more radical groups, such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad. And these commanders have taken their fighters with them. "It's...
Kifaya activists complain that the constitutional changes give the regime sweeping powers to consolidate its hold on power and, some critics contended, to ease the way for Mubarak's son Gamal to succeed to the presidency in 2011. Human rights groups were particularly outraged by the amendment to Article 179...
She wasn’t afraid. The Kennedy School lecturer and former National Security Council advisor has navigated Jordanian prisons and Indonesian alleys to meet terrorists and learn how they think. Now, as she looked to explore Islamic extremism in the Netherlands, she had found an unexpected holdup: not a...