The child bride who still haunts me
By Sudarsan Raghavan (WP) I met Fayrouz Ahmed Haider in a grim refugee camp in Yemen. Just 11 years old, she was already married. She reminded me of someone else: a girl I had met thousands of 25
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Islamic State sex slaves apparently being sold on Facebook for $8,000
The woman is young, perhaps 18, with olive skin and dark bangs that droop onto her face. In the Facebook photo, she attempts to smile but doesn’t look at her photographer. “To all the bros 25
This photo shows the incredible firepower of the US-led coalition against ISIS
US-led coalition spokesman: ISIS suffering setback Colonel Steve Warren, the US-led coalition’s Operation Inherent Resolve spokesman, said the recent attacks by militants of the Islamic State (ISIS) against the Kurdish Peshmerga front lines in northern Iraq last 25
The Giant Al Qaeda Defeat That No One’s Talking About
By Michael Morell | Politico Something significant and positive just happened in the Middle East, and most Americans are not aware of it. The United Arab Emirates, under the banner of a Saudi-led coalition, late 25
Saudi Arabia passes Russia as world’s third biggest military spender
By Ishaan Tharoor | WP/ Global military spending reached almost $1.7 trillion in 2015, marking a year-on-year increase for the first time since 2011, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, which tracks arms 25