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Abu al-Zubayr al-Askari || Al-Naba 352, p. 9
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Islamic State fighters from Wilayat Sinai in Egypt || Al-Naba 348, p. 5
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 21 August 2022

It was on this day in 1968, fifty-four years ago, that the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia, one of its colonies in the “Warsaw Pact”, which had embarked on a program of liberalising reforms. The Czech leadership did not intend to depart from the socialist path, merely to soften its edges—and ran into the brute fact that this was not possible. Continue reading