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Interview with Lebanon PM Hariri Stokes Fears of Captivity in Saudi Arabia

Lebanon’s President Aoun said the interview was a Saudi move to sow “confusion, and we cannot take it as true or made by Hariri’s own free will.”

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Lebanon’s Prime Minister Saad Hariri gives a live TV interview with a reporter from Future TV, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Sunday Nov. 12, 2017, saying he will return to his country “within days”. (Future TV via AP)

By any standard imaginable, Lebanese (ex-) Prime Minister Saad Hariri's Sunday interview on the television station he owns – Future TV – was positively cringe-inducing. Speaking to journalist Paula Yacoubian, Hariri sought to dispel accusations made from the highest levels of the government he once headed – including his own Sunni allies – that he

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Israel Plans Further Attacks on Syria, Hezbollah, as Lebanon War Talk Grows

“If Saudi Arabia is deliberately stoking the flames between the sides, (war) becomes a tangible danger,” Israeli commentator Amos Harel said.

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An Israeli air force jet fighter plane takes off from Tel Nof air force base for a mission over Gaza Strip in central Israel, Monday, Nov. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Despite impressive gains by Syria and its allies in the fight against terrorism and the Islamic State group, Israel signaled Sunday that it plans to continue launching aggressive strikes on alleged Iranian-allied forces, even as the United States and Russia try to build up a ceasefire in the area. U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President

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Report: Average American Taxpayer Spent $23,386 for the War on Terror

“The American public should know what the true costs of these choices are and what lost opportunities they represent.”

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Photo of Hellfire missiles being loaded onto a US military Reaper drone in Afghanistan by Staff Sgt. Brian Ferguson/U.S. Air Force

A new "Costs of War" report published by Brown University's Watson Institute shows the actual costs incurred by the U.S. as part of its global "war on terror" that widely contradicts the cost of war figures put together by the Pentagon in its report. The report points out some of the Pentagon report's most staggering shortcomings and

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Israel Raids Palestinian Kindergarten For Refusing Israeli Curriculum

“Israel wants to suppress the Palestinian narrative, especially since the curriculum does not mention the atrocities committed against Palestinians in 1948 and other historical facts that are linked to Palestinian history on this land.”

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Israeli border police check Palestinian's identification cards at a checkpoint in Jerusalem, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015.Palestinian right's groups are calling for people to remember the longstanding occupation that has again sparked recent violence. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Israeli forces raided a kindergarten and primary school in occupied East Jerusalem Monday, terrifying children who witnessed the assault and prompting outrage among Palestinians. Police officers barged into Zahwa al-Quds kindergarten and primary school in the neighborhood of Beit Hanina, arresting the school's deputy principal and three

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Officials Investigate Contradicting Civilian Death Tolls In Afghan Airstrike

Unconfirmed reports purporting the deaths of as many as 60 people, accompanied by alleged images of the aftermath, were circulated on social media.

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In this Oct. 2, 2015 file photo, Afghan security forces inspect the site of a U.S. airstrike in Kunduz city, north of Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo)

According to officials, Afghan and U.S. military personnel are investigating reports that about 13 civilians were killed during an operation in Kunduz. The U.S. military said it had launched a probe into what is believed to be a joint U.S.-Afghan operation on Nov. 3. Afghan Defense Ministry said security officers were assigned to investigate

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UN: US Airstrikes Responsible For 1 In 4 Civilian Casualties In Mosul

A new United Nations report suggests that a large number of civilians, 1 in 4, were killed by the United States-led coalition’s airstrikes during the Battle of Mosul.

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A resident carries the bodies of six people killed during fights between Iraq security forces and Islamic State on the western side of Mosul, Iraq, Friday, March 24, 2017. Residents of the Iraqi city's neighborhood known as Mosul Jidideh at the scene say that scores of residents are believed to have been killed by airstrikes that hit a cluster of homes in the area earlier this month (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

According to a new report published by the United Nations, airstrikes launched by the U.S.-led coalition led to the death of 1 in 4 civilians during the operation to ‘liberate’ the city from the Islamic State group. The report, commissioned by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI),

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Report: United States Falls To 49 In Ranking Of Gender Equality

A newly published World Economic Forum report notes that gender equality is eroding for the first time in 11 years, when the WEF began monitoring it.

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A crowd fills Independence Avenue during the Women's March on Washington, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017 in Washington. (AP/Alex Brandon)

A new report by The World Economic Forum has said that gender "equality is in retreat" for the first time since the group began measuring systemic gender inequality in 2006. The report takes into account several metrics including life expectancy parity, labor participation, and political representation, though does not include societal or

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