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Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir attends an interview with Reuters, in Riyadh January 4, 2016. REUTERS/Faisal Al Nasser TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
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Mass graves were discovered near Camp Speicher after Iraqi government forces recaptured the area
Iraq Sentences 40 to Death over ISIS’s Camp Speicher Massacre
Iraq has sentenced 40 captured members of ISIS to death on Thursday for the 2014 massacre of military cadets in northern Iraq, a judicial spokesman said. At least 1,566 mostly Shia cadets are assumed to have been killed in the massacre near former US Army base Camp...Caption:
Half a Million Civilians under Blockade in Syria, Organizations Speak of Larger Figures
Half a Million Civilians under Blockade in Syria, Organizations Speak of Larger Figures
London- 486,700 people in Syria are subject to blockades, over half of which are entrapped by regime forces. These figures are derived from an original 4.6 million people who reside in areas difficult to reach, according to last month’s report of the United Nations...Caption:
United Nations (U.N.) special envoy for Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed speaks to the media upon departure after a five-day visit to Yemen’s capital Sanaa January 14, 2016. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah
Ould Cheikh Ahmed Postpones Yemen Peace Talks
Washington-The UN Special Envoy for Yemen said the country is living “through the hardest trending days in its history.” The UN special envoy for Yemen said he was unable to call another round of peace talks because the opposing parties were deeply divided over...Caption:
A crowd waits on the edge of a buffer zone that was created in preparation for a food aid distribution in the besieged town of Moadamiyeh, Syria, which was a joint operation between the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Wednesday, February 3, 2016. REUTERS/Pawel Krzysiek/ICRC/Handout via Reuters