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...Other architects of Assad’s brutal system of detention and torture — such as the feared security chief and trusted Assad aide, Ali Mamlouk — are also subject to indictments....
...Djibouti is the backbone of a global coalition against al-Shabaab, an al-Qaeda-linked Somali terrorist group, as well as the now diminishing threat of piracy....
...Ali Aqil, a wiry soldier in army fatigues, is standing by to help but, spotting me — a foreign journalist — he launches into what I assume will be a typical defence of President Bashar al-Assad against the...
...Djibouti’s public and publicly guaranteed debt burden is likely to reach 81 per cent of GDP next year, mostly as a result of Chinese financing....
...None of my friends considered that fair....
...We arrived in Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan’s second city, known affectionately as Suly, its skyline dominated by the futuristic Grand Millennium hotel, a copy of Dubai’s Burj al-Arab, due to open later...
...As he arrived, a photograph, pinned to his chest, showed the 1931 arrest by Italian troops of Omar Al Mokhtar, a Libyan resistance leader executed by the colonisers....
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