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What Makes a Movement Violent: Comparing the Ahle Hadith (Salafists) in India and Pakistan

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Turkey’s Parliamentary Purge and the HDP’s Dilemma

A picture shows election flags displaying imprisoned Selahattin Demirtas, Presidential candidate and leader of People's Democratic Party (HDP) in Ankara, on June 19, 2018.

Lebanon’s inconvenient truths: A brief rejoinder

Anti-government protesters demonstrate ahead of the expected naming of a new cabinet tomorrow by Prime Minister Designate Hassan Diab, on January 16, 2020 in Beirut, Lebanon.

Escalation and retaliation in Idlib as violence spirals

This picture taken on February 3, 2020 shows smoke plumes billowing in the Syrian village of al-Nayrab, about 14 kilometres southeast of the city of Idlib in the northwestern Idlib province, during bombardment by Syrian government forces and its allies.

Idlib tests Turkey-Russia ties

A Turkish military convoy of tanks and armoured vehicles passes through the Syrian town of Dana, east of the Turkish-Syrian border in the northwestern Syrian Idlib province, on February 2, 2020.

In Syria, we’re getting counter-terrorism all wrong

Syrian families, who have been forced to displace due to the ongoing attacks carried out by Assad regime and Russia, are seen on their way to safer zones with their belongings, at Atme camps in Idlib, Syria on January 19, 2020.

Why Jordan was so quick to reject Trump’s peace plan

Thousands of Jordanians protested on Friday against President Trump's Middle East Peace Plan on January 31, 2020 in Amman, Jordan.

Arab states unanimously reject Trump plan

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas (3rd-L) and Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Secretary-General Saeb Erekat (2nd-L) look on as Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit (L) reads a statement during an Arab League emergency meeting discussing the US-brokered proposal for a settlement of the Middle East conflict, at the league headquarters in the Egyptian capital Cairo on February 1, 2020.

Iraqi PM nominee’s friends wrestle foes in the street

Iraq's former communications minister Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi speaks after assigned by Iraq's president Barham Salih to form a new government, in Baghdad, Iraq on February 1, 2020.

Omar Al-Rafie

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