Subject: Editors' Picks, presented by the Fletcher School's Master of International Business Program: Fear and loathing in Iraq; and flying into the hot zone
From: "Foreign Policy" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 18:15:17 -0500 (EST)

FOREIGN POLICY'S TOP 5 READS
Monday, November 03

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#1 
GANGS OF IRAQ: Marauding pro-government militias are using the fight against the Islamic State as a pretext to destroy Sunni Arab communities across Iraq: <a href='http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71yg24.2eok/VFgGyMPoQHbc76W4Afe34 target='_blank' style='font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#ea1414;text-decoration:none;font-size:15px;line-height:21px;'>Read more</a>:
<http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71yg24.2eok/VFgGyMPoQHbc76W0A484a>

#2
EXCLUSIVE: 2016 might not be the end. The Pentagon’s man in Kabul is reassessing whether Afghan troops will be ready when the last American forces depart. FP’s Gopal Ratnam reports: <a href='http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71yg24.2eok/VFgGyMPoQHbc76W5Aa1f5 target='_blank' style='font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#ea1414;text-decoration:none;font-size:15px;line-height:21px;'>Read more</a>:
<http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71yg24.2eok/VFgGyMPoQHbc76W1A342a>

#3
INTO THE HOT ZONE: From New York to Brussels to Dakar to Monrovia: FP’s Laurie Garrett makes the trip to see Ebola-ravished Liberia, up close and personal: <a href='http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71yg24.2eok/VFgGyMPoQHbc76W6Abee7 target='_blank' style='font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#ea1414;text-decoration:none;font-size:15px;line-height:21px;'>Read more</a>: 
<http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71yg24.2eok/VFgGyMPoQHbc76W2A8b83>

#4
BARGAINING WITH BASHAR: The State Department has eliminated funding for an NGO dedicated to documenting Assad’s atrocities. Is the administration relaxing criticism of Syria’s dictator to keep him in the fight against the Islamic State?: <a href='http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71yg24.2eok/VFgGyMPoQHbc76W7A9a4c target='_blank' style='font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#ea1414;text-decoration:none;font-size:15px;line-height:21px;'>Read more</a>:
<http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71yg24.2eok/VFgGyMPoQHbc76W3Af234>

#5
HOTBED IN THE ARCTIC: The melting ice cap is opening shipping lanes and creating potential for conflict among nations jockeying for the region’s natural resources. Experts weigh in.:
<http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71yg24.2eok/VFPqE8Po_WL2p9D9Ac912>

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