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In rebel Syria, a race to save precious property deeds | AFP

June 20, 2018June 20, 2018 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here June 20, 2018]

Beirut (AFP) – The external hard drive had been smuggled from Syrian regime territory through jihadist-held towns and into Turkey. When Ghazwan Koronful finally got his hands on it, he sighed in relief.

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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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