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Man jailed as ISIS terrorist was Danish intelligence agent
Helsinki Times
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September 4, 2025
Ahmed Samsam, sentenced in 2018 to eight years in prison for allegedly joining the so-called Islamic State, has been formally recognised as an agent of Denmark’s intelligence services, according to a ruling by the country’s Supreme Court. The...
‘Preparation for the Next Life’ Filmmaker Bing Liu on His Narrative Feature Debut and Why a ‘Minding the Gap’ Sequel Is Unlikely
The Hollywood Reporter - California
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September 4, 2025
Understandably, Bing Liu is still on cloud nine over his storybook run at the end of the 2010s. His coming-of-age documentary, Minding the Gap, premiered at 2018’s Sundance Film Festival to universal acclaim, taking home the special jury prize for...
President Barzani Extends Greetings on the Occasion of Prophet Muhammad’s Birthday
ARK News
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President Barzani Extends Greetings on the Occasion of Prophet Muhammad’s Birthday Welat TV - Erbil President Masoud Barzani has extended his warm congratulations to Muslims in Kurdistan, Iraq, and across the world on the occasion of “Mawlid...
Syria’s Minority Killings Aren’t Accidents – They’re Strategy
Small Wars Journal
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September 4, 2025
Introduction In the aftermath of Bashar al-Assad’s fall in Syria, the U.S. and several European Union countries legitimized Ahmed al-Sharaa. Better known as al-Julani, he is a Sunni Muslim and former Al-Qaeda and ISIS commander leading Syria’s...
South Sudan’s Democratic Mirage
The New York Review of Books
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September 4, 2025
In December 2024 South Sudan was scheduled to hold elections for the first time. They would have finally given its citizens a chance to pass judgment on the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A), which had fought a twenty-two-year-long...
The U.S. Rejects the Palestinian Victimhood Narrative
Daily Alert
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September 2, 2025
(Sept. 2, 2025 / JNS) U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio invited the scorn of the world with his announcement last week that Washington was barring officials from the Palestinian Authority from entering the country to attend the meeting this...
Why the world needs a global water treaty
The National News
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The world’s first cross-border deal on water resources was struck in the Middle East, more than 4,000 years ago. Lagash and Umma, two ancient city states in modern-day Iraq, agreed to the Mesilim Treaty in 2,500 BC, recording its legal terms about...
Gorka to Newsmax: US Had Right, Duty to Sink Drug Boat
KKOB News Radio - New Mexico
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September 5, 2025
Sebastian Gorka defended the Trump administration’s decision to sink a boat carrying suspected Venezuelan drug traffickers, telling Newsmax on Thursday that the U.S. has the right and duty to treat cartels as terrorist organizations. U.S. forces...
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From Department of War to Department of Defence and back… The history behind the name change in US
Firstpost
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September 5, 2025
Is the United States planning to change the name of the Department of Defence? President Donald Trump is set to sign an executive order (EO) changing the name back to the Department of War. “It used to be called the Department of War and it had a...
Qatar, Arab Ministerial Committee reject undermining legal status of Jerusalem
The Peninsula
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September 4, 2025
Cairo: The Arab Ministerial Committee tasked with international action to confront Israel’s illegal policies and measures in occupied Jerusalem, during its tenth meeting today at the headquarters of the General Secretariat of the Arab League in...
Beyond the Defeat: Unpacking the Systemic Failures Holding Pakistani Football Back
Pressenza
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September 4, 2025
Despite yesterday’s devastating defeat to Iraq in the U23 qualifying round, the potential for athletic excellence in Pakistan is not a myth. Our nation is a world champion in squash, hockey, cricket, and snooker, proving our inherent capacity to...
Over 21,600 Pakistanis imprisoned abroad, Senate body informed
Dawn
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September 3, 2025
ISLAMABAD: As many as 21,647 Pakistanis are imprisoned in different countries with majority of them in the Gulf States for their alleged involvement in various crimes and illegalities; officials of the interior and foreign affairs ministries...
How Gavin Newsom, whose ex-wife dated Trump Jr, became Trump's biggest rival
India Today
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September 5, 2025
Donald Trump rewrote the rules of American politics, weaponizing social media with insults and provocation that turned trolling into a campaign strategy. His Make America Great Again, or MAGA, movement thrived on branding opponents with mocking...
Trump's horrific cult contains the seeds of its own destruction
AlterNet
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September 5, 2025
America is at risk of abandoning its founding principle of government, “by and for the people,” in favor of a system older than democracy itself: rule by one man. Pretty much everybody understands that the United States and the old Soviet Union...
Israeli pledged allegiance to ISIS, plotted attack on security forces
Israel Hayom
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September 4, 2025
In a joint operation by the Shin Bet and the Police Crime Fighting Unit, authorities arrested Najib Dik, a 25-year-old resident of the Israeli-Arab city of Baqa al-Gharbiyye, located in central Israel, for investigation based on ideological...
The Trap of Law and Order Under Fascism
Truthout
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September 4, 2025
Part of the Series Did you know that Truthout is a nonprofit and independently funded by readers like you? If you value what we do, please support our work with a donation. “There’s no rule of law that’s going to get us out of where we are,” says...
Abbott calls for Coalition push to strip citizenship from ISIS brides who ‘rejected our country’
Sky News Australia
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September 4, 2025
Former Liberal prime minister Tony Abbott has declared spouses of ISIS fighters who left Australia have “no moral right to come back” and urged the opposition to table legislation to strip people who joined a terrorist group of their citizenship....
Integrated yet Autonomous: How Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces Have Mastered Cooperation with Conventional Forces
Small Wars Journal
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September 5, 2025
Introduction – The Enduring Gap For decades, military thinkers have debated how best to integrate Special Operations Forces (SOF) with conventional forces. In the United States and across NATO, joint doctrines, command structures, and staff...
OPINION: For Israelis, Fiddler is a relic. For diaspora Jews, it’s a mirror
The Jewish News
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September 1, 2025
As the final solemn note of Anatevka rang out through the auditorium of the Norwich Theatre Royal, a teary audience leapt to its feet. Immediately I turned to my Israeli friend who, to my utter despair, had never seen Fiddler on the Roof prior to...
ANCA Backs FY2026 NDAA Amendments Strengthening Armenia, Returning Armenians to Artsakh,
The California Courier
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— Bipartisan Measures Seek Release of Armenian Prisoners, Azerbaijan Sanctions, and Restrictions on U.S. Military Sales to Turkey WASHINGTON, DC – The Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) is supporting a series of pro-Armenian amendments...