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On July 18, 2013, Detroit became the largest U.S. city to file for bankruptcy.

On July 18, 2013, Detroit became the largest U.S. city to file for bankruptcy.

As soon as Yevgeny Prigozhin announced his mutiny, the memories began flooding back into the minds of writers and non-writers who felt compelled to share them either on social media or in the press. These individuals found in their memories many Arab figures who resemble Prigozhin. The gist of their sentiment was: we have many of his kind and these inter-regime conflicts.

The “Arab Spring” arrived in Damascus with a vengeance this week—despite the brutal repression meted out by the Assad regime.

The Assad clan rules Syria with no restrictions. And now the anti-reformist hardliners have apparently gained the upper hand in the family assembly. They include Maher al-Assad, the brother of the President, feared for his acts of brutality against members of the opposition. By Rudolph Chimelli

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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s weekend trip to the UAE should come as no surprise, even though it appears to have thrown some observers in Washington o

The bilateral relationship has flourished over the past few years, in defiance of the US

A boy plays on a destroyed tank near the rubble of a mosque that was destroyed during fighting between Syrian rebels and regime forces in the northern...