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kremlinsmen-1 The Russian Reset That Never Was
How palace intrigues in the Kremlin, the death of Qaddafi, and war in Ukraine ushered in a new era of mistrust between Russia and the United States under Obama.
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GettyImages-71630897 The Unlikely Origins of Russia’s Manifest Destiny
How an obscure academic and a marginalized philosopher captured the minds of the Kremlin and helped forge the new Russian nationalism.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Why Jihadists Fight
Tunisia is supposed to be the success story of the Arab Spring — so why are so many of its young men flocking to the Islamic State?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Brainbelt Awakening
It’s time to stop championing the "lonely heroes" of innovation like Apple, Google, and Amazon and rally around the ingenuity of the world’s waning industrial communities.
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GettyImages-548865897antonescucrop The Antonescu Paradox
Hitler’s Romanian ally led an utterly barbaric regime — that while often protecting Jews inside Romania’s borders, murdered them indiscriminately just outside those borders.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 ‘I Think I May Die Tonight’
The story of an ambitious Rwandan journalist who challenged Paul Kagame’s leadership.
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<> on February 19, 2009 in Fairfax, Virginia. Inside the CIA Red Cell
How an experimental unit transformed the intelligence community.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Saints and Smugglers of Syria’s Civil War
How expatriates ran a covert campaign to funnel millions of dollars worth of aid into one of Syria’s worst-hit towns -- right under Assad’s nose.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Building the Kremlin’s Big Brother
Inside the minds of the engineers and computer scientists developing phone taps and facial recognition software for Moscow’s security apparatus -- no questions asked.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Killing Abu Ghadiya
The untold story of a risky Delta Force mission to take out a senior al Qaeda militant inside Syria.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 North Korea’s Real Life Hunger Games
What it's like to fight for your life in North Korea.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Metamorphosis of an Islamic State Warrior
Meet Abdelaziz Kuwan, a nice young man from Bahrain who went to Syria to fight Assad. Before long he was raping girls and beheading men.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Final Betrayal of Egypt’s Revolution
The democratic revolution in Tahrir Square awakened high hopes in Egyptians. Two years later, it ended in blood and tears.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Watching Top Gun in Tehran
Life in 1980s Iran was unbearable. And then Masoud the video-man came to call.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 And the City Swallowed Them
A model, a murder, and the seamy underbelly of 2008 Shanghai.
