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PA arrests Hamas supporters ahead of elections

On January 15, PA President Mahmoud Abbas announced that the parliamentary election would be held on May 22. Despite the talk about holding new general elections, the Palestinian Authority and Hamas are continuing to crack down on each other’s supporters in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

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Taliban visit Iran, hope to sideline US

Tehran wants to undermine US role in Kabul, promote Taliban as either rulers of Afghanistan or equals to gov’t The Taliban rode high during US president Donald Trump’s administration because they knew he wanted to leave Afghanistan. They hoped for a trip to Camp David and acted like the rulers …

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Nagorno-Karabakh, religious war?

So far, there have been many wars over beliefs between human beings, some of which have been over religious beliefs and some have not. For example, widespread conflicts between communists and capitalists or the American Civil War were not formally the result of a religious belief, although they could be …

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