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Ann Marlowe

Ann Marlowe, a visiting fellow at the Hudson Institute, visited Afghanistan 18 times and spent 4 months in Libya in 2011.

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Chaos

The Next Dangerous Move in Libya

The Islamic State is growing in Libya. But to fight it, the Libyan state has to be resurrected. Critical moves are expected in the next few days and weeks.

Ann Marlowe

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Sinking Ships

Behind a Mediterranean Migrant ‘Crisis’

The flood of people struggling across the water from Africa began long ago. What’s new is Europe’s misreading of the situation in Libya—and the number of people dying.

Ann Marlowe

Fatal Inaction

My Libyan Friend Didn’t Have to Die

The corruption and incompetence of Libya’s “leaders” and the world community has spawned a massive migrant flow into the deadly Mediterranean—and killed my young friend.

Ann Marlowe

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Iconoclasts

Should Iraqi Treasures Stay In the West?

Are the treasures of the East best kept in the West? Or could huge fines to states that don’t save cultural patrimony help?

Ann Marlowe

Iconoclasts

ISIS’s Plan to Erase History Everywhere

Widespread apathy in the Muslim world about the destruction of antiquities, including those central to the history of Islam and the Bible, threatens our global heritage.

Ann Marlowe

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Self-Defeating

The Benghazi Sequel: Complete Disaster

Decades of rule by Gaddafi left Libyans with a collective case of PTSD, or something very much like it.

Ann Marlowe

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Libya’s Hidden Minority

Ann Marlowe reports on an ancient culture that is beginning to quietly reclaim its voice—and freedom.

Ann Marlowe

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Obama’s Misplaced Triumphalism

Announcing the Afghan drawdown was a concession of defeat, but you’d never know it from Obama’s speech.

Ann Marlowe

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End The War in Afghanistan

A new Senate report questions the results of the nearly $19 billion spent in aid to Afghanistan.

Ann Marlowe

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Bin Laden's Death Heightens Tensions in Kabul

There were no celebrations in the Afghan capital on the news of bin Laden's killing. Some hoped Mullah Omar and other terrorists would return to Afghanistan from their Pakistani refuges, but mostly a state of alert was ratcheted up, writes Ann Marlowe.

Ann Marlowe

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