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The Khobar Tower Bombings
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William Joseph Burns, known as Bill to his colleagues, stepped down as Deputy Secretary of State in October 2014 after…
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With the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, the long-awaited reunification between East and West Germany began. A…
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Persecution of the Kurds: The Documents of Saddam’s Secret Police
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A House of Cards – The Collapse of Yugoslavia
Over a bloody three years, hundreds of thousands of former Yugoslav residents were dislocated, imprisoned, raped, tortured, starved, and massacred…
Nelson Mandela’s Road to the Presidency
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