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Paving the way: Syria highway traces winning regime strategy | ِAFP

July 6, 2018July 6, 2018 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here on July 6, 2018]

From second city Aleppo all the way down to the border with Jordan, Syria’s longest highway cuts through fertile fields of green, buzzing industrial zones and four major cities.

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Where does Syria’s opposition stand ahead of new talks? | AFP

February 21, 2017February 24, 2017 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here on February 21, 2017]

Beirut (AFP) – Syrian opposition figures will return to Geneva on Thursday for new UN-sponsored talks with President Bashar al-Assad’s regime on their country’s six-year conflict.

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Omran, one child among millions traumatised by Syria war | AFP

August 18, 2016February 24, 2017 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here on August 19, 2016]

Beirut (AFP) – Haggard and covered in blood, little Omran’s blank stare has grabbed headlines around the world. But across war-torn Syria, thousands of children like him are traumatised by daily life under siege and the threat of bombs.

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Truce in peril as Syria bombardments kill 30 | AFP

April 23, 2016May 17, 2016 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here on April 23, 2016]

Aleppo (Syria) (AFP) – At least 30 civilians were killed Saturday in regime and rebel bombardment of areas across Syria, threatening an eight-week-old truce at a time when peace talks are stalled in Geneva.

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Escalating Syria violence threatens ceasefire | AFP

April 15, 2016May 23, 2016 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here April 15, 2016]

Beirut (AFP) – Fighting escalated around Syria’s second city Aleppo, as a Russian-backed government offensive strained a landmark ceasefire and threatened a new round of peace talks in Geneva.

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Saddam's Palace, Babylon. The imposing monument the dictator built for himself has sat abandoned since the 2003 US-led invasion that toppled him, leaving the platform pictured - where Saddam apparently used to sit on a throne - bare. Following the invasion, the US dismantled and tried to rebuild Iraq's institutions from the ground up. American officials, American soldiers, American dollars were everywhere, used to earn and exert influence. As a wave of protests over the last six weeks has made obvious, much has changed. With no clear Iraq policy from the White House, no close personal links between the two countries' leaders and a focus on squeezing Iran that may have alienated Iraqi figures, the ties are at their "coldest" ever, officials from both countries told me. Where US interests and influence once ruled, now stands an empty platform. Check the link in my bio for the full AFP story.
"They called us the PUBG generation. Look what the PUBG generation can do." Students like Samara have stolen the spotlight in #Iraq's protests, flooding the streets in Baghdad and the south to demand an overhaul to the entrenched political system they blame for unemployment and corruption. Story in bio.
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