Dispatch
The view from the ground.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Russia’s New Black Widows
The deadly and mysterious new breed of female suicide bomber.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Rising Up and Rising Down
In Syria's little town that could, the death and resurrection of the witty, profane campaign to show the world the tragedy of civil war.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 At Sea
Smugglers, shipwrecks, and the harrowing, tragic journey of Syrian refugees trying to get to Sweden.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Long March North
The Algerian government has a long track record of subduing protest movements. Is it about to meet its match?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Desert Fury
Is the Egyptian military's scorched-earth campaign in Sinai just creating a new generation of terrorists?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 No Country for Anyone
The Syrian rebellion is turning hard-line Islamist, squeezing out Christians, Alawites, and Kurds who also hate Assad.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Coiffeur of Cairo
For 50 years, Mahmoud Labib has cut the hair of Egypt's rulers, from Sadat to Mubarak.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Fugitive
Meet Abu Omar: Al Qaeda busted him out of Abu Ghraib. Now he has gone to fight in Syria.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 My Booze-Soaked, $12,000 Round-Trip Junket to Nowhere
Qatar Airways sits reporters in vibrating seats, loads them with 39-year-old wine, and never explicitly asks for glowing press coverage.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 London Underground
Inside the Muslim Brotherhood’s hush-hush propaganda office in the U.K.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Mali 2.0
The French military intervention and a successful election have given Mali a chance to reboot its democracy. But it's going to be an uphill climb.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Glowing Greens
Can food grow in a nuclear wasteland? Scientists in Kazakhstan may be close to an answer.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Barcode Nation
Why some Indians are still fighting back against the country's new biometric ID system.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Angie the Revolutionary
How Germany's staid, go-slow chancellor is changing Europe forever.