Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- November 29, 2019

A protester holds an Iraqi flag amid a cloud of smoke from burning tires during ongoing anti-government protests in Najaf, Iraq November 26, 2019. REUTERS/Alaa al-Marjani/File Photo

John Davison and Ahmed Aboulenein, Reuters: Threats, arrests, targeted killings silence Iraqi dissidents

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - After armed men raided the home of Hussein Adel al-Madani and his wife Sara Talib last year, the Iraqi activists spent months of self-imposed exile in Turkey, changed address upon returning home and ceased participating in protests, according to two friends of the couple.

But a day after anti-government demonstrations erupted in Baghdad in October, unidentified gunmen believed by activists to be working on behalf of Iran-backed militia shot the couple dead in their home in the southern city of Basra, said the friends and two security sources familiar with the incident. Sara was several months pregnant.

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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- November 29, 2019

Why the resignation of Iraq's prime minister will not automatically stop the mass uprising on the horizon -- Patrick Cockburn, The Independent

Eyewitnesses on the Unrest in Iran -- Susanne Koelbl, Der Spiegel

No phones, scripted tweets: How Trump's Afghanistan trip was kept under wraps -- Humeyra Pamuk, Reuters

The folly of trying to curb China’s rise -- Ken Moak, Asia Times

China’s latest tactic: Call America racist -- Jake Novak, CNBC

ISIL is not dead, it just moved to Africa -- Rashid Abdallah, Al Jazeera

Complacency a concern as AIDS treatment improves in Africa -- Rodney Muhumuza, AP

France Is Back But Where Is Germany? -- Mujtaba Rahman, Politico EU

Is Venezuela really a threat to Latin America and the Caribbean? -- Carlos Eduardo Pina, Al Jazeera

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