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Egypt has a presidential system. The president runs the state. Who the president is matters profoundly.

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The Muslim Brotherhood, or 'the Brotherhood' for short, is an Islamic group founded in Egypt in 1928. It has been pursuing a secret campaign to take over the government since its creation.

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Egypt is the most populous Arab nation, the seat of Sunni Islamic doctrine, and has tremendous political, religious and social influence on the rest of the region. For better or worse, it will lead the rest of the Middle East by example. So goes Egypt, so goes the region.

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Every country where the the United States maintains troops has a status of forces agreement.

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On one level, bombing ISIS is easy. The U.S. knows where the group operates. There's no need for a ten-year hunt like the one for Osama bin Laden. The terror group has two capital cities: Mosul in Iraq and Raqqa in Syria. Al-Qaeda never had such an obvious home address.

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Many in the U.S. military believe ISIS needs to be immediately, and repeatedly, smashed by American drones and warplanes.

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ISIS controls a territory roughly the size of Maryland where 8 million people live. If it's attacked and toppled, who will fill the void?

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The Donetsk People's Republic is the self-declared pro-Russian government that wants to break away from Ukraine.

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Hezbollah and the government are only two of 18 political factions in Lebanon, most of them armed. There are militant Christian groups, Palestinian radicals, al-Qaida, Druze militias and even armed bands of Marxists still operating in Lebanon.

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Hamas is a Palestinian political party with an aggressive militant wing.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: September 16th, 1973

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