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Survival means victory: Preserving honor as a war objective - opinion

From Egypt to Iran, leaders often choose honor over surrender, enduring defeat rather than risking public humiliation.

 Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi speaks to the media at the UN headquarters in New York City, US, September 25, 2024
View of the Conseil d'Etat, France's highest administrative court, in Paris, France, January 25, 2024.

Paris court dismisses Jewish family's compensation claim against government for not paying rent

Former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki reacts at a polling station inside Al-Rasheed Hotel during the parliamentary election in Baghdad, Iraq, November 11, 2025.

Iraq's former PM who helped fuel ISIS makes unlikely comeback - analysis

Iranians gather while blocking a street during a protest in Tehran, Iran on January 9, 2026. The nationwide protests started in Tehran's Grand Bazaar against the failing economic policies in late December, which spread to universities and other cities

'Delayed deaths': UK report claims chemical agents used on Iranian protesters


In the Koran, Pharaoh was a villain

People in the Muslim world fail to see that the individuals they extol as heroes were nothing but tyrants who led them straight into the sea.

The Jerusalem Post

Iraqi foreign minister walks out of Libya meeting

Hoshyar Zebari protests Gadhafi's support for Saddam loyalists; ministers agree to recommend meeting PA request to raise annual funding for e. J'lem Palestinians from $150m. to $500m.

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'Bush didn't go to war for Israel'

Rove says US wished to prevent WMDs from falling into hands of dictators.

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The Region: The real Arab stuff

What are the most realistic and moderate Arabic-speaking rulers thinking?

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Iraq: blasts kill 40 Shi'ite pilgrims

Bombings on final day of Muslim holiday are week’s third large-scale attacks.

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Blair fights for his legacy as he defends Iraq war

Six-hour session capped a wide-ranging inquiry that has heard extensive evidence from government lawyers and ministers who raised doubts about legality and wisdom of 2003 Iraq invasion.

Tony Blair

'Chemical Ali' executed in Iraq

Hussein's cousin convicted for fatal 1988 poison gas attacks.

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Iraq chief: Saddam-linked candidates to be banned

PM Maliki's Shi'ite-dominated gov't appears to be throwing support being body.

Saleh al-Mutlaq

Friends in deed

You can't put a price on the dedication of 300,000 Diaspora volunteers.

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Friends in deed

One cannot put a price tag on the dedication of an army of 300,000 volunteers in the Diaspora.

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