Meet The New Religious Freedom Ambassador (Daily Caller News Foundation)
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It took over a year, but the United States now has an ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom.
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$1.3 Billion Later, Government Can’t Tell If It’s Beating ISIS At Propaganda (Daily Caller News Foundation)
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The committee overseeing the federal government’s “Twitter war” against terrorist propaganda admitted on Thursday that despite nearly $1.3 billion dollars in annual programming, it cannot measure the success of those efforts.
Read MoreMiddle East Erupts Over Senate Torture Report (Daily Caller News Foundation)
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Middle Eastern social media users responded with vehemence on Tuesday to the Senate’s report on CIA interrogation practices, calling America “barbaric” and protesting their own governments’ complicity.
Read MoreChina, Russia And Iran Lecture The US On Human Rights (Daily Caller News Foundation)
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Protests over the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner have led to the United States being condemned for racism and oppression in often-oppressive rival countries, including Iran, Russia and China.
Read MoreWill Netanyahu Remain Israel’s Prime Minister? (Daily Caller News Foundation)
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Israel’s Knesset voted Wednesday to dissolve, kickstarting a period of likely uncertainty and infighting, culminating in elections slated for March 17.
Read MoreIraq’s Prime Minister Exposes Vast Corruption (Daily Caller News Foundation)
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Is Iraq moving beyond corruption?
Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi dismissed 24 top Interior Ministry officials on Monday, following a revelation Sunday that the country’s army had been paying salaries to 50,000 non-existent “ghost soldiers.”
Read MoreIran Nuke Deal Deadline Looms, Skepticism Reigns In DC (Daily Caller News Foundation)
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In the run-up to the Monday deadline for a U.S.-led nuclear deal with Iran, Washington has speculated about the outcome.
Read MoreFrench Philosopher: Move UN To Jerusalem (Daily Caller News Foundation)
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Régis Debray, a French philosopher and political activist, has demanded that the United Nations General Assembly vote to move the organization’s headquarters to Jerusalem, “the cradle of the world’s civilizations,” calling New York a seat of Western economic and military hegemony.
Read MoreThe Religious Freedom Shakeup (Wonkistan)
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US Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom Suzan Johnson Cook is expected to resign this week. There’s been a lot of speculation about who her successor may be, and how recent changes in the human-rights world and the DC bureaucracy may impact the future of her job. But first, a bit of background
Read MoreTerror Weekend in Nairobi, Peshawar, and Baghdad (Wonkistan)
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Last weekend was marked by unexpected incidents of public and religiously motivated violence around the world. A posh shopping center in Nairobi, Kenya was besieged by Islamists in a dramatic standoff with government forces that has killed dozens of Kenyans and foreigners so far. A funeral procession in Baghdad was bombed, killing at least 65 bystanders. And in the largest anti-Christian attack in Pakistan’s history, 80 people died when Taliban affiliates bombed a church in Peshawar after Sunday services.
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