In November 1979, Iranian students stormed the American embassy in Tehran and held its diplomats hostage for more than a year. The crisis became a…
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The danger is that we have become accustomed to such a world. That we grow addicted to the next surprise, while wounds go unhealed, illnesses go…
By the end of Part 2, retired Syrian military officer Said Jawish had told Al Majalla how he and his team tracked the Egyptian-born Israeli spy Eli…
When Syrian army personnel at Signals Corps 134 intercepted an Israeli message in 1962, they had no name to search for. They had a radio frequency, a…
Said Jawish grew up in the Kurdish Quarter of Damascus, in a family that knew financial hardship, and worked as an electrician before joining the…
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Will Netanyahu meet his political end?
