Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are clueless on Syria
It was all too clear in the last debate. Neither candidate has any idea what to do about the world’s most dangerous war.
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Adnan R. Khan
Adnan R. Khan has been on the ground for Maclean’s in some of the world’s most unfriendly places, from Pakistan to Iraq, writing about conflict, politics, society, and the occasional vacationing tips in Afghanistan. He claims to be based in a small cabin somewhere on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast though no one can definitively prove it.
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How Turkey became a petri dish for Islamist politics
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Turkey’s two coups
The military coup attempt failed, but an institutional coup is now underway, and it’s been a huge success