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Flag of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, a Salafi jihadi extremist militant group and self-proclaimed caliphate and Islamic state which is led by Sunni Arabs from Iraq and Syria. Dated 2015. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images) Present at the Creation
The never-told-before story of the meeting that led to the creation of ISIS, as explained by an Islamic State insider.
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A member of the Jewish community takes out a portrait of the Russian-born Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson from the Anatevka synagogue. Longform’s Picks of the Week
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_A6A2523 Fiddler on the Front Line
On the outskirts of Kiev, one rabbi is using the war in eastern Ukraine to revive a long-lost way of life: the shtetl.
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FP001_MAIN_ILLO_Final_v2 Tunisia: In Sun and Shadow
It’s a country often billed as the sole success story of the Arab Spring. But the reality is far more fraught.
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Thousnads of demonstrators gather at the Kasba in Tunis on Febuary 25, 2011. Tens of thousands of Tunisians rallied today to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi's transitional government set up after last month's ouster of Zine el Abidine Ben Ali. AFP PHOTO / BORNI Hichem (Photo credit should read BORNI Hichem/AFP/Getty Images) Five Years of the New Tunisia
From revolution to disillusionment and back again: milestones on Tunisia’s rocky path to democracy.
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Relatives of the Mexican tourists attacked by Egyptian security forces light candles and pray for the wounded and dead in Guadalajara, Mexico on September 19, 2015. On stretchers and in wheelchairs, six Mexican tourists hurt in a mistaken Egyptian air strike that killed eight others returned home Friday, as Mexico pressed for compensation for the victims. AFP PHOTO/HECTOR GUERRERO (Photo credit should read HECTOR GUERRERO/AFP/Getty Images) Longform’s Picks of the Week
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A large sand dune encroaches the main road which links surrounding villages to the nearest big town Kharga Oasis in the North. Killing Fields in the Egyptian Desert
Eight vacationing Mexican tourists and four tour guides were gunned down — out of the blue — by Egyptian military aircraft. What happened?
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ARBIL, IRAQ - OCTOBER 02: Children play soccer with balls which they recieved from German Development Minister Gerd Mueller (not pictured) in UNHCR-Camp Kawergosk for Syrian refugees during his visit to the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq on October 01, 2014 in Arbil, Iraq. (Photo by Michael Gottschalk/Photothek via Getty Images) Longform’s Picks of the Week
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CHENGGONG, CHINA - NOVEMBER 20: (CHINA OUT) A man walks along a street on November 20, 2013 in Chenggong, Yunnan Province of China. Chenggong is a satellite city located just south of Kunming. As of 2012, much of the newly constructed housing in Chenggong is still unoccupied, and it is reportedly one of the largest ghost towns in Asia. According to a China Youth Daily report in July, at least 12 such ghost cities across the country have been found. Besides the best known of these - Ordos in North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the list also included Changzhou in Jiangsu, Zhengdong New Area in Henan Province, Shiyan in Hubei and Chenggong District of Kunming in Yunnan. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images) The End of Days Is Coming — Just Not to China
Why apocalyptic fiction and film haven’t caught on in the Middle Kingdom.
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Protesters marching down Broad Street on the second day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, PA. Protests and Pot Smoking in the City of Brotherly Love
Bernie Sanders supporters and the Pro-Hillary camp struggle to unite outside the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
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DADAAB, KENYA - JULY 21: Newly arrived Somalian refugees settle on the edge of the Dagahaley refugee camp which makes up part of the giant Dadaab refugee settlement on July 21, 2011 in Dadaab, Kenya. The refugee camp at Dadaab, located close to the Kenyan border with Somalia, was originally designed in the early 1990s to accommodate 90,000 people but the UN estimates over four times as many reside there. The ongoing civil war in Somalia and the worst drought to affect the Horn of Africa in six decades has resulted in an estimated 12 million people whose lives are threatened. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images) The World’s Largest Refugee Camp Is Invited to Please Shut Down
The Kenyan government says it will clear its country of Somali refugees before the end of this year. But it's not saying how.
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Christian protesters in Public Square during the second day of the Republican National Convention in downtown Cleveland, OH. Packing Heat in Public Square
On the streets of Cleveland, armed protesters, police, and skeptical Clevelanders gather outside the Republican National Convention.
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