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Recommended by Ricochet Members Created with Sketch. Turkey’s Southern Border

Zafar
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I was born and grew up in India, went to the US for college and grad school, lived there for 10 happy years, then moved to Australia and have lived here since.
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Turkey has been adamant about preventing the Kurds controlling a contiguous area immediately South of its border with Syria. To that end, it entered Syria and has recently expanded the zone it controls directly (turquoise, labeled Afrin) and perhaps also indirectly (light green, labeled Idlib) in Syria’s North West:

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Contributor Post Created with Sketch. “Who is a Proper Muslim?”

Cameron Gray
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Cameron Gray (On Twitter: @cameron_gray) is a broadcast media professional, with over 25 years of experience. He currently works for NRA News and Compass Media Networks. In the past, he has worked for SiriusXM Satellite Radio, CBS Radio, and the Washington Redskins Radio Network. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Cameron moved to Central Virginia for high school, then moved on to George Mason University in Northern Virginia. There, he earned a BA in Speech Communications and an MA in Telecommunicat… [more]
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640px-AQMI_Flag.svgOne of my first pieces for Ricochet was “The Last Jew in Pakistan.” It was about a friend I made over Twitter named Fishel Benkeld, a resident of Karachi, who is commonly thought of as, literally, the last Jew in the entire country, population 187 million. We chat over Twitter direct message, and sometimes, I wonder if it’s the last time we will ever talk.

On Wednesday morning, Karachi was the scene of unimaginable carnage. Several members of the Islamist radical group, Jundallah, shot into a bus full of minority Muslim Ismailis. At least 40 were killed, and 20 were injured.

The New York Times has more:

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