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INTERVIEW-Iraq says proxy war over Syria threatens its neutrality
Reuters* Zebari says pressure on Iraqi neutrality enormous * Decries lack of international consensus on Syria * Iraq denies it lets Iran fly weapons across its airspace By Samia Nakhoul and Patrick Markey BAGHDAD, June 20 (Reuters) - Iraq is being buffeted...Tags: Baghdad (Iraq), Lebanon, Nouri Maliki, Government, Rebellions
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Myanmar constitution likely to dash Suu Kyi's presidential hopes
ReutersBy Jared Ferrie YANGON, June 20 (Reuters) - Her adoring compatriots believe democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi is destined to become Myanmar's next president. But don't bet on it. A year ago, the Nobel Peace Prize winner was feted at home and abroad...Tags: Nobel Prize Awards, Burma, Elections, Globalization, Entertainment Events
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Iran says appeals for 'jihad' in Syria fuel radicalism
ReutersKUWAIT (Reuters) - Calls by Sunni Muslim clerics for a holy war against the Syrian government and its Shi'ite allies are fuelling radicalism in the region, a senior Iranian official said on Wednesday. Earlier this month, prominent cleric Sheikh Youssef...Tags: Kuwait, Bashar Assad, Iran, Islam, Jihad
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Syrian rebels claim attack on Shi'ites in Lebanon
ReutersBEIRUT (Reuters) - A Syrian rebel unit has claimed responsibility in a video for killing four Shi'ite men in Lebanon this week as Syria's civil war spills into its smaller, religiously divided neighbor. In the video, posted on Tuesday by a group...Tags: United Nations, Lebanon, Wars and Interventions, Bashar Assad, Rebellions
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Iraqi Shi'ites flock to Assad's side as sectarian split widens
Reuters* Iraqis say they are defending fellow Shi'ites, shrines * Fighters' flow to Syria casts doubt on Iraqi neutrality * Shi'ite officials privately acknowledge support for Assad * Divisions emerge between Syrian and Iraqi fighters By Suadad al-Salhy...Tags: Baghdad (Iraq), Lebanon, Tehran (Iran), Rebellions, Government
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Iran says appeals for "jihad" in Syria fuel radicalism
ReutersKUWAIT, June 19 (Reuters) - Calls by Sunni Muslim clerics for a holy war against the Syrian government and its Shi'ite allies are fuelling radicalism in the region, a senior Iranian official said on Wednesday. Earlier this month, prominent cleric...Tags: Kuwait, Bashar Assad, Islam, Iran, Religion and Belief
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Muslims sue NYPD over monitoring of mosques, congregants
New York Muslims have filed a federal lawsuit against the New York Police Department over the department's surveillance of Muslims, which they called invasive and unconstitutional. The public debate over government surveillance has crescendoed over...
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Hava Holzhauer: Anti-Semitic narratives inspiring terrorists
Since 9-11, approximately 250 American citizens and legal residents motivated by radical interpretations of Islam have been arrested on various terror-related charges, ranging from bomb plots to providing material support to terrorists. More than a...Tags: Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Judaism, Al-Qaeda, Terrorism, Philosophy
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Special Report: Syria's Islamists seize control as moderates dither
ReutersALEPPO, Syria (Reuters) - As the Syrian civil war got under way, a former electrician who calls himself Sheikh Omar built up a brigade of rebel fighters. In two years of struggle against President Bashar al-Assad, they came to number 2,000 men, he said,...Tags: Arts and Culture, Turkey, Arbitration, Rebellions, Government
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Gangs of Cairo? Egyptian minister fights culture war
ReutersCAIRO (Reuters) - "Gangs of New York" seems a fitting favourite movie for Egypt's new culture minister, a film studies professor who styles himself an outsider fighting to break the hold of a privileged elite over spending on the arts. Artists enraged...Tags: Arts and Culture, Mohamed Morsi, Sociology, Dance, Entertainment Events
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Then what in Syria?
Two recent newspaper editorials illustrate the double-mindedness some feel about President Barack Obama's decision to provide small arms and ammunition to Syrian rebels. The Washington Post headlined an editorial: "No time for half-measures: Syria's...Tags: Mohamed Morsi, Muammar Gaddafi, Missile Systems, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post
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Lebanese Sunni Muslim politician warns of state collapse
ReutersBEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's main Sunni Muslim political party pleaded with the presidency on Tuesday to prevent "state collapse", blaming the Shi'ite Hezbollah group for dragging the country into the war in neighboring Syria. Iranian-backed Lebanese...Tags: United Nations, Lebanon, Fouad Siniora, Politics, Bashar Assad
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