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Republican Senator Joseph R McCarthy died in 1957 but the terms McCarthyism and McCarthy's tactics entered the political lexicon to describe witch hunts involving public accusations of disloyalty or subversion without sufficient proof
The words—'Mr Gorbachev, tear down this Wall'—that moved the world would have been edited out from Reagan's Berlin Wall Speech had it not been for the US President's insistence in the face of objections from mandarins
Yevgeny V Prigozhin built the mercenary force Wagner Group as he enriched himself thanks to his ties with President Vladimir Putin which helped him get the Russian government's lucrative contracts for construction and catering
Tikrit was a test case for Iraq’s ability to unite the country after ISIS massacred 1,700 air force cadets, mostly Shia, at Camp Speicher there to drive a permanent sectarian wedge for the Iraqi state’s implosion
To showcase the broad-based resistance against ISIS, we were driven to Baghdad's riverside palm tree-shaded Jadriya locality for a show of Shia-Sunni unity by commanders fighting the terror group
Colonnaded thoroughfare Al Rasheed Street was built to commemorate the Ottoman victory in Kut al-Amara during the First World War before the scales tipped in Britain’s favour and the British troops drove Ottomans out with the help of Arabs By Sameer Arshad Khatlani In March 2003, the United States invaded Iraq on the pretext of … Continue reading Why Baghdad’s Al Rasheed Street Reminds Arabs Of British Betrayal
The stories with compassion as the moral that people like me grew up on as children need to be told and retold for a peaceful future of co-existence that growing Islamophobia threatens
Many Nepalese conceded the constitution may be imperfect but is federal, republican, and secular and can be amended to accommodate the concerns of disgruntled ethnic groups but there was more to India’s disapproval
Democracies were no longer dying at the hands of men with guns with elected governments having caused most breakdowns of democracy through democratic backsliding since the end of the Cold War
Imran Khan’s falling out with the Pakistani military follows a pattern since the 1960s when Ayub Khan handpicked Zulfikar Ali Bhutto as his foreign minister at 35 in 1963 before the young politician revolted against his mentor two years later for failing to capitalize on the gains in the 1965 war and losing it with India at the negotiation table
