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Greek neo-Nazis retain swagger despite two-year trial

Nearly two years in the dock over an anti-fascist rapper's murder have done little to blunt the swagger of Greek neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn. The ultranationalist party remains the fourth largest in parliament, and the Greek authorities continue to grapple with how to confront the aggressive...

UN praises Iran's 'exemplary' refugee efforts

While Iranians would bear the brunt of Donald Trump's visa ban, which has been blocked on the orders of a U.S. court, international officials say the country has quietly emerged as one of the most generous towards refugees. "The leadership demonstrated by the Iranian government has been...

Graffiti turned Syrian way to defy destruction

By Faris Rifai (Zaman Al Wasl)- One of the Syrian revolution’s distinctive outcomes was the art of graffiti that first used by a school children in Daraa six years ago, such an inscription sparked the regime anger to start from that date a relentless war on the Syrian people. Graffiti has...

U.S. military to send 1,000 more ground troops into Syria

The U.S. military has drawn up early plans that would deploy up to 1,000 more troops into northern Syria in the coming weeks, expanding the American presence in the country ahead of the offensive on the Islamic State’s de facto capital of Raqqa, according to U.S. defense officials familiar...