Instead, Khalidi traces a hundred years of colonial war on the Palestinians, waged first by the Zionist movement and then Israel, but backed by Britain and the United States, the great powers of ...
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By Raja Abdulrahim Syrian opposition fighters have made their most significant advance in years against government forces, shaking up a civil war that had long been at a stalemate. The new rebel ...
One of those men is Vernon Brantley, a World War II veteran from Columbia who recently turned 100 years old. Brantley served in the Army’s 75th Infantry Division 289th regiment anti-tank company ...
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William Manchester in his magnificent three-volume biography (the third volume completed by Paul Reid after Manchester’s ...
The offensive, which began Wednesday, is the first major flare-up in years between the Syrian opposition and the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, who has ruled the war-torn country since 2000.