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War Crimes Trials in Bangladesh Create Opening for Islamist Militants

Bangladesh, the world’s fourth largest Muslim country, has recently experienced an intense cycle of massive protest rallies marked by violent confrontations between moderate secularists and Islamic radical forces. The spark for these religious and political confrontations has been the ongoing trials for war-crimes committed by... MORE

Ahrar al-Sham: A Profile of Northern Syria’s al-Qaeda Surrogate

The uprising against Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s rule entered its third year in March. The process of disaggregating the political and armed currents that are struggling against the Ba’athist regime, however, remains an exercise in futility.  Despite ardent efforts by the numerous opposition factions to... MORE