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Food security in Middle East, North Africa deteriorating, says UN agency
Middle East
December 21, 2017
Food security in Middle East, North Africa deteriorating, says UN agency
Food security in the Middle East and North Africa is quickly deteriorating because of conflict in several countries in the…
Mosul is a graveyard: Final IS battle kills 9,000 civilians
Middle East
December 21, 2017
Mosul is a graveyard: Final IS battle kills 9,000 civilians
The price Mosul’s residents paid in blood to see their city freed was 9,000 to 11,000 dead, a civilian casualty…
Dying for a paycheck: the Russian civilians fighting in Syria
Middle East
December 21, 2017
Dying for a paycheck: the Russian civilians fighting in Syria
When Vladimir Kabunin signed up as a private military contractor, he saw a chance to make a wage much higher…
Macron rebuffs Assad accusations that France sponsors terrorism
World
December 19, 2017
Macron rebuffs Assad accusations that France sponsors terrorism
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday that Bashar al-Assad was the enemy of millions of his own people and…
65 journalists and media workers killed globally in 2017: RSF
World
December 19, 2017
65 journalists and media workers killed globally in 2017: RSF
Sixty-five journalists and media workers were killed worldwide in 2017, according to annual figures published by Reporters Without Borders (RSF)…
Al-Qaida divisions may aid Assad as he eyes Syria’s Idlib
Middle East
December 19, 2017
Al-Qaida divisions may aid Assad as he eyes Syria’s Idlib
As President Bashar Assad seeks to reassert his authority in Idlib, the only remaining province in Syria where his forces…
Germany pegs Kurdish support on ‘unified’ Iraq
Middle East
December 19, 2017
Germany pegs Kurdish support on ‘unified’ Iraq
German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel on Monday said Berlin’s support for the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq was linked to…
Syria’s Assad calls US-backed militias ‘traitors’
Middle East
December 19, 2017
Syria’s Assad calls US-backed militias ‘traitors’
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Monday described US-backed militias in eastern Syria as “traitors”, his office said in an online…
Macron: Talk to Assad now, he will answer for crimes later
World
December 18, 2017
Macron: Talk to Assad now, he will answer for crimes later
French President Emmanuel Macron thinks the Islamic State group will be defeated in Syria by the middle or end of…
Raising the bar: local brews make a comeback in Syria
Middle East
December 18, 2017
Raising the bar: local brews make a comeback in Syria
For years, Abu George’s bar in Damascus’s Old City served imported beers under portraits of famous foreigners Che Guevara and…