Dispatch
The view from the ground.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The General Rises
Egypt’s new Field Marshal-in-chief, Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, looks ready to seize the presidency. But is it more than he can handle?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Climate of Corruption
How a $50 million graft scandal is pushing Malawi even closer to environmental catastrophe.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Mercury Rising
Can opposition leaders contain protest violence in Ukraine—or is the country headed for “prolonged guerrilla warfare”?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Blood Brothers
When Assad's horrific prisons were the CIA's dumping ground.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Italian Job
Inside the shadowy $4 million ransom payment to release two kidnapped Europeans in Syria.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 ‘We Want to Move On’
What do Egyptians really care about in their country's constitutional referendum? Not the constitution, for starters.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Welcome to the Department of Morale Affairs
Belly dancers, billboards, and Egypt's military propaganda machine.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Divorce Istanbul-Style
Why Turkey's nasty Gulen-Erdogan fight is making for some strange bedfellows.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Screwball
How Germany’s progressive prostitution law backfired and turned it into the bordello of Europe.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Controversial Death of a Teenage Stringer
Reuters gave this Syrian kid a camera. Seven months later he was dead.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Vanished
In 2011, Israel Arenas Durán disappeared in northern Mexico. Why can't the government find him -- and the thousands of others who've gone missing in the country's drug war?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Islamist Enemy of Our Islamist Enemy
Meet what might soon be the West's unpredictable new friend in Syria -- the Islamic Front.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How to Crush Low-Hanging Fruit
Beset by terrorism, Egypt's military government is blaming everything on the Muslim Brotherhood.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Silent Night
As a security vacuum continues to plague Egypt, the country's beleaguered Christian community fears a rash of kidnappings will only worsen during the holiday season.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Angels and Demons
Pentecostalism is the world's fastest growing religious movement. But in much of Africa, it's fueling witch-hunts and the spread of HIV/AIDS.
