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On Tuesday, the chairman of the National Anti-Terrorism Committee, Alexander Bortnikov, read out the list of his group's successes so far. He claimed the organizers of the November bombing of a train from Moscow to St. Petersburg that killed 29 people had been found in the North Caucasus...
Whatever the true connection between the subway bombings and the battle unfolding in the mountains of Dagestan, experts say Russia's war on terror has entered a brutal phase. "Now the heads of security forces have the green light to act with maximum harshness, including against the families of the...
Alexander Cherkasov, a board member of Russia's main human rights organization, Memorial, agrees that Russia appears to be returning to a harshness similar to the time of the war in Chechnya. "We're seeing a shift away from things like mass arrests and harsh interrogations toward the tactic of...
On Saturday, many Syrians will celebrate their Independence Day by driving up into the foothills of Mount Hermon and picnicking amid the apple blossoms in that portion of the Golan Heights that remains under Syrian control. In recent years, the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad has used the occasion...
The Jerusalem Post, citing Israeli military sources, reported on Tuesday that Syria rebuffed an Israeli overture to have indirect military communications through the U.N. observer force that monitors the demilitarized buffer zone between the two sides in the Golan, whose purpose is solely to prevent an outbreak of violence. So...