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Remembering Halabja
Iraqi Kurd residents visit the cemetery for victims of the 1988 chemical attack in the Kurdish town of Halabja, near Sulaimaniya, 260 km (160 miles) northeast of Baghdad, March 16, 2013. Source:...
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The Stateless Statesmen
Massoud Barzani, head of the Kurdish regional government, addresses a conference on “recognizing the Kurdish genocide” in Erbil, March 14, 2013 (AFP PHOTO/ ALI AL-SAADI)The vast majority of global...
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Syria’s Deadly Bureaucracy
Syrian children stand in front of a UNICEF school during a visit by European Union Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response Kristalina Georgieva and Italy’s...
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The Elusive Promise of Geneva II
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Mouallem at the opening of the Geneva II talks on January 22 2014. (EPA/ Martial Trezzini) So we are finally here. The long and torturous road to the Geneva II peace...
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Iraq off the Agenda
An Iraqi election commission official pulls ballot boxes at a polling station in the capital, Baghdad, on May 8, 2014, following the country’s general elections. (AFP PHOTO/AHMAD AL-RUBAYE) The worst...
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Today’s Friends, Tomorrow’s Enemies?
Iraqi Shi’ite fighters salute to the shrine of Sayeda Zeinab, the granddaughter of Prophet Mohammad, at Sayeda Zainab area in Damascus May 25, 2013. (REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani)The Syrian government’s...
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