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Demonstrations whisper of an Arab spring in Jordan

By Stephen Farrell Feb. 10, 2012

KARAK, Jordan — Beneath a statue of a glowering Saladin, a medieval Islamic warrior, a crowd unfurled banners and began chanting protests against the country’s leadership in its palaces and government offices far below the precipices of this ancient fortress town.

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Military Has Cause for Both Hope and Concern in Iraq

By Alissa J. Rubin and Stephen Farrell Oct. 10, 2008

Market by market, square by square, the walls are beginning to come down. The miles of hulking blast walls, ugly but effective, were installed as a central feature of the surge of U.S. troops to stop neighbors from killing one another.

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Shorts (left)

By Stephen Farrell Oct. 7, 2008

Emerging markets took one of their biggest collective tumbles in a decade Monday as stock markets from Mexico to Indonesia to Russia were gripped by fears of a meltdown in Europe’s banking system and concern that a global recession could drag down the price of commodities, forcing a steep slowdown in emerging-market growth.

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Double Bombings in Iraqi Town Kill At Least 35, Wound 62

By Erica Goode and Stephen Farrell May. 2, 2008

Two thunderous blasts set off by suicide bombers ripped through a crowded shopping street in the town of Balad Ruz in Diyala province on Thursday, killing at least 35 people and wounding at least 62 others, many of them seriously.

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Iraq Milatary to Remove Roadblocks In Baghdad to Help Reduce Violence

By Stephen Farrell Nov. 13, 2007

Iraqi military commanders signaled Monday that they would soon remove some roadblocks and other restrictions that had been imposed over the past nine months as part of the effort to reduce violence here in the capital.

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Iraqi Shiite Cleric Announces Ceasefire Following Skirmish

By Stephen Farrell Aug. 30, 2007

The radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his militia to suspend activities for six months in announcement issued a day after dozens were killed during firefights between his fighters and a rival Shiite group during a religious festival in Karbala.

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Clash Between Shiite Groups Result in At Least 50 Deaths

By Stephen Farrell Aug. 29, 2007

A power struggle between rival Shiite groups erupted during a religious festival in Karbala on Tuesday, as gunmen with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades fought street battles amid crowds of pilgrims, killing at least 50 people and wounding 200, Iraqi officials said.

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