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Timeline of Women's Rights in Afghanistan
An interesting read: Timeline of Women's Rights in Afghanistan "One need not dig deep to discover the truth of Afghanistan’s once promising …
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Syria
Asharq Al-Awsat interview with Syria’s Grand Mufti Sheikh Ahmad Badr al-Din Hassoun
Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat- Sheikh Ahmad Badr al-Din Hassoun, Syria’s Grand Mufti is not an ordinary man. Regardless of the importance of his relig…
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Women's Rights
Women in Syria – The inside story - by Wayne Sonter
by Wayne Sonter The Western mainstream media have kept on message over the last three years, persistently presenting the violence in Syria as st…
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TURKEY
MI6, the CIA and Turkey's rogue game in #Syria | by Patrick Cockburn | 13 April 2014
The US's Secretary of State John Kerry and its UN ambassador, Samantha Power have been pushing for more assistance to be given to the Syrian…
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training children
Syria | Al-Qaeda trains Syrian children in al-Ghouta
(Originally published in Al-Alam on Sunday, October 20, 2013) Al-Qaeda-affiliated group, The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) trains Sy…
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Turkish PM
Robert Fisk: Has Recep Tayyip Erdogan gone from model Middle East 'strongman' to tin-pot dictator?
Thursday 10 April 2014 Once a cuddly ally of Barack Obama, the Turkish Prime Minister has shown himself to be increasingly authoritarian …
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SYRIAN REBELS
The Red Line and the Rat Line Seymour M. Hersh on Obama, Erdoğan and the Syrian rebels
... In 2011 Barack Obama led an allied military intervention in Libya without consulting the US Congress. Last August, after the sarin at…
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