• Afghan forces fail to halt Taliban resurgence

    Published on : 31 08 2014

    If residents here were unclear of how close the Taliban fighters were to this provincial capital, the thud of rockets in the neighbouring Chardara district left no room for doubt.

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  • Why the war on Gaza is bad for Israel

    Published on : 18 08 2014

    Israel’s Gaza war has cost the country far more than the death of 64 soldiers, with growing domestic discontent and negative economic repercussions.

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  • Islamic Media: Need of the Hour

    Published on : 02 06 2014

    In the recent age, the age of print and electronic media, under its cover Europe, and the entire Western countries play a key role in considering plots to attack Muslim Ummah and to make the Islamic world powerless is a big goal, first ever in Islamic history.

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  • US’ Long Search for Mr. Right

    Published on : 23 02 2014

    What’s wrong with central casting? It’s a virtual truism: The United States always seems to pick the wrong guy to star as George Washington in some faraway civil war.

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  • Is Abbas ready to recognize Israel as a Jewish state?

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    PLO Central Committee member Nabil Amr has been quoted as saying that a recognition by the Palestinian Authority (PA) of Israel as a Jewish state is possible in some form.

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  • The Genetics of Alcoholism

    Published on : 27 01 2014

    Despite all the known health and social problems of alcohol, there are millions of staunch defenders of this not-so-innocent beverage.

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  • Motives for success and overcoming failure

    Published on : 09 01 2014

    The name of failure is enough to put us off it and strive for success, regardless of the material gains that a man may attain as the result of his success, because failure is a word that implies shortcomings and loss, and success is a word that implies perfection and praise.

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  • Dont be Like a Dry Branch

    Published on : 04 01 2014

    My young son surprised me one day with a very difficult question. Out of nowhere, he asked: “You are driving a car that can only carry the driver and one passenger. You pass by three people, all of whom need a ride.

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  • Egypt’s new constitution: legitimizing an illegitimate order

    Published on : 30 12 2013

    Egypt’s interim president Adly Mansour has set January 14 and 15, 2014, as the dates for a referendum on the country’s amended constitution. Amr Moussa – former Minister of Foreign Affairs under Mubarak and the 2012 presidential candidate – is chairman of the (fifty-member) Committee tasked with amending the 2012 constitution.

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  • The clash of allies: The AK Party vs Gulen Movement

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    Is there a crack in the ruling elite alliance in Turkey? In other words, did the cooperation and solidarity between the most important social force and political force that struggled to defeat the military tutelage in Turkey come to an end?

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