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Why Moscow now sees value in Syrian local councils

(Al-Monitor)- The major political slogan of the Bolshevik Party leading up to the 1917 Great October Socialist Revolution and the uprising itself, “All Power to the Soviets!” is now relevant to Syria. The long-lasting civil war in Syria killed centralized government stone dead and caused...

Germany to tap asylum-seekers' phones for ID checks

The German government has drafted a law to allow authorities to tap into the phone and computer data of asylum-seekers if there are doubts about their nationalities – an unusual move in a country where data protection is sacred. According to a draft of the bill obtained by Reuters,...

Israel arrests Arab citizen over alleged ISIS attack plot

Israel's Shin Bet security service said Monday it had arrested an Arab Israeli on suspicion of aiding ISIS and plotting attacks. Its agents and police had arrested Anas Haj Yahya, 35, from the northern town of Taibe, on Jan. 29 "in the wake of intelligence information which pointed to him as...

One in four Canadians support temporary refugee ban: poll

One in four Canadians say Ottawa should have adopted a temporary halt on Syrian refugees in response to the United States' controversial travel ban, though the majority supported the government's current immigration plan, an Angus Reid Institute poll showed on Monday. Sixty percent of those...