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Sherif Mansour, CPJ’s Middle East and North Africa program coordinator, said, “Journalists are making great sacrifices across the region covering this important conflict. [read post]
8 Mar 2018, 6:00 am by Bruce Riedel
There is the Houthi war with the government of President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi and its Saudi allies. [read post]
7 Nov 2017, 5:00 am by J. Dana Stuster
The missiles belong to them and they have increased their range,” Mohammad Ali Jafari told Iranian state media. [read post]
9 Aug 2017, 6:00 am by Dipali Mukhopadhyay, Omar Sharifi
Atta Mohammad Noor, flocked to Ankara to show their solidarity, forging a new political coalition in the process. [read post]
24 Jul 2017, 11:19 am by Mary B. McCord
  Among just a few of the more notable convictions in this category are those of Richard Reid, who attempted to explode a shoe bomb on a flight from Paris to Miami and is now serving a life sentence; Zacarias Moussaui, who participated in the 9/11 conspiracy and is now serving a life sentence; Mohammad Mansour Jabarah, who participated in a plot to bomb U.S. embassies in Singapore and the Phillipines, and is now serving a life sentence; Faisal Shahzad, who attempted a car… [read post]
23 May 2017, 1:52 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
In May 2016, the vulnerabilities of the Taliban were exposed when the United States tracked and killed with an unmanned aerial vehicle strike the head of the Taliban, Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour. [read post]
9 May 2017, 8:39 am by J. Dana Stuster
At the first debate, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the hardline current mayor of Tehran, hammered Rouhani over a promise to create four-million new jobs—a statement that Rouhani did make during the 2013 campaign, but with large caveats. [read post]
25 Apr 2017, 8:43 am by J. Dana Stuster
Among the opposition candidates, the hardline vote will likely be split between the popular mayor of Tehran, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, and Ebrahim Raisi, a cleric close to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. [read post]
7 Mar 2017, 6:00 am by J. Dana Stuster
The United States is providing intelligence and logistical support to the Saudi-led intervention force, which is backing troops that are trying to restore the internationally-recognized government of President Abdrabbu Mansour Hadi. [read post]
9 Feb 2017, 7:00 am by Jillian Schwedler
The Saudis saw a strategic ally in Brotherhood-affiliated Islah leaders, including the Chair of the Supreme Council of Islah Mohammad Yadumi and tribal leader Abd al-Wahab al-Anisi. [read post]
7 Feb 2017, 7:30 am by J. Dana Stuster
“We hope that Iran’s defense program is not used by the U.S. administration...as a pretext to create new tensions,” Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Tuesday. [read post]
21 Dec 2016, 11:00 am by J. Dana Stuster
Russia Embraced Responsibility for Syria’s Civil War Russia has been supporting the Assad regime since the beginning of the Syrian civil war, but the nature of that support changed this year. [read post]
27 Nov 2016, 7:00 am by Seth G. Jones
In 2015, the now-deceased Taliban leader Akhtar Mohammad Mansour bluntly warned in a message to Islamic State fighters that the war in Afghanistan should come “under one banner” and one leadership—that of the Taliban. [read post]
5 Aug 2016, 12:41 pm by Rishabh Bhandari, Quinta Jurecic
The group splintered when it emerged last year that their supposed leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar, had died two years before and his death had been kept secret. [read post]
31 May 2016, 1:13 pm by Alex R. McQuade
Afghan Taliban leader Akhtar Mohammad Mansour was not the only person killed in the U.S. airstrike in Pakistan last week. [read post]
28 May 2016, 7:10 am by Alex R. McQuade
Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour was killed in a U.S. air strike over the weekend, throwing the Taliban into the second leadership shake-up in less than a year. [read post]
24 May 2016, 2:11 pm by Caitlin Gilligan, Alex R. McQuade
The shortlist includes Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob, Mullah Abdul Qayyum Zakir, and Mullah Sherin, along with Sarjuddin Haqqani, NBC News reports. [read post]