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    Ilhan’s Country

    Traveling through East Africa and Minnesota reveals a story more quintessentially American than either the congresswoman or her detractors want to admit

    byArmin Rosen
  • Somaliland, a 68,000-square-mile desert netherworld in the northwestern portion of what everyone else still considers to be part of Somalia
    Somaliland, a 68,000-square-mile desert netherworld in the northwestern portion of what everyone else still considers to be part of Somalia
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    An Almost-Country in the Desert That Doesn’t Care About Your Understanding of Politics

    Observing the recent elections in Somaliland

    byArmin Rosen
  • Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attend an event to mark the 40th anniversary of the 1976 hostage rescue in Entebbe on July 4, 2016.
    Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attend an event to mark the 40th anniversary of the 1976 hostage rescue in Entebbe on July 4, 2016.
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    Bibi Tours Africa

    The Israeli Prime Minister’s slate of diplomatic meetings includes visits to Kenya, Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Uganda, where he commemorated the 40th anniversary of the Israeli raid at Entebbe

    byArmin Rosen
  • U.S. State Department Deputy Spokesperson Marie Harf. (SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
    U.S. State Department Deputy Spokesperson Marie Harf. (SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
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    State Department Spokesperson: Gaza Strikes Are War Crimes

    But are U.S. drone attacks on Yemen, Pakistan, and Somalia any different?

    byStaff Notes
  • An American flag flies at the former Sather Air Base in Baghdad in December 2011, shortly before the departure of the remaining American troops from Iraq.(Mario Tama/Getty Images)
    An American flag flies at the former Sather Air Base in Baghdad in December 2011, shortly before the departure of the remaining American troops from Iraq.(Mario Tama/Getty Images)
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    Fool’s Gold

    Middle East expert Robert Kagan argues in a new book that American foreign policy has spawned a golden age of liberal democracy. He’s wrong.

    byDavid P. Goldman
  • Foreground: Ayaan Hirsi Ali in June 2007. Background: Pakistani political activists hold a portrait of Aafia Siddiqui during a protest in Quetta on Dec. 10, 2011.(Photoillustration Tablet Magazine; original photos Banaras Khan/AFP/Getty Images and Ian Waldie/Getty Images.)
    Foreground: Ayaan Hirsi Ali in June 2007. Background: Pakistani political activists hold a portrait of Aafia Siddiqui during a protest in Quetta on Dec. 10, 2011.(Photoillustration Tablet Magazine; original photos Banaras Khan/AFP/Getty Images and Ian Waldie/Getty Images.)
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    Heroine Stupor

    Wanted Women, a new joint biography of two Muslim women, refuses to distinguish between an al-Qaida terrorist and a feminist intellectual

    byAndrew Roberts
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