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Druze leader Walid Jumblatt. (Asharq Al-Awsat)
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Men carry an oxygen tank from the Red Crescent medical center after it was bombed, in Al-Sakhour neighborhood of Aleppo, on April 28, 2015. (Reuters/Hamid Khatib)
Major hospital in Syria’s Aleppo shuts because of bombing
Beirut, AP—One of two major hospitals in Syria’s violence-torn northern city, Aleppo, has suspended its operations after it was bombed at least twice last week, the international aid organization Doctors Without Borders said Monday. The city, once Syria’s...Caption:
A soldier stands between demonstrators and riot police facing off in the Musaga district of Bujumbura, Burundi, on May 4, 2015. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
Rwanda says alarmed by Burundi unrest as refugees stream across border
Kigali, Reuters—Rwanda’s foreign minister said on Tuesday she was concerned about neighboring Burundi’s clampdown on more than a week of protests against its president’s decision to seek a third term in office. President Pierre Nkurunziza’s...Caption:
Iraqi fighters from the Peace Brigades and the Promised Day Brigade, groups formed by Iraqi Shi’ite Muslim cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr, parade in the central city of Kufa, some 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, on May 3, 2015. (AFP Photo/Haidar Hamdani)
Opinion: Propaganda Wars—ISIS vs. the Shi’ite Popular Mobilization
When the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) captured Iraq’s second city Mosul in June of 2014, the event brought to the fore the power of the extremist group’s propaganda machine and how it had paved the way for its lightning advance across northern Iraq and its...Caption:
This 2014 file photo shows smoke billowing from buildings in Derna, after the Libyan Air Force launched airstrikes against Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) positions in the eastern city. (AFP Photo)