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Crisis in Libya: Who is to blame?

In this week’s UpFront, we talk to the former NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who still maintains the NATO-led air campaign against Muammar Gaddafi in Libya was a “model intervention”. In the Reality Check, Mehdi Hasan explains how, although the refugee crisis in Europe may […]

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Air strikes, fighting mark end of Aleppo ceasefire

Heavy clashes erupted between regime and rebel forces in Syria’s divided city of Aleppo after a unilateral ceasefire announced by Russia expired, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said. The first Syrian or Russian air strikes on Aleppo, Syria’s most populous city before the […]

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Russia’s Navy Deployed to Syria in Show of Force

MOSCOW — Russia’s largest naval deployment in years raised eyebrows as the flotilla sailed past Norway through the English Channel on the way to the eastern Mediterranean Sea to support Moscow’s air campaign in Syria. The British Royal Navy shadowed the Russian fleet Friday as […]

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IS Fighters Push Back on Mosul Offensive

HASSAN SHAM, KURDISTAN IRAQ — Islamic State militants launched an assault Friday on the northern oil city of Kirkuk, drawing troops and resources away from the battle toward Mosul as Iraqi and Kurdish peshmerga forces continue to move in on the country’s second-largest city. A […]