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Bana al-Abed with her mother, Fatemah, near Bryant Park in New York on Friday. Credit Karsten Moran for The New York Times

Bana al-Abed: From a Syrian War Zone to New York City

by Megan McArdle | Oct 10, 2017 | Middle East

As airstrikes rained down on Aleppo while the Syrian government wrested the city from rebel forces, Bana al-Abed and her mother, Fatemah, were tweeting daily about life under siege. “Good morning from Aleppo,” Bana said in halting English in one of the videos posted...

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Stalls are seen on a street beside damaged buildings in the rebel held al-Shaar neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, February 10, 2016. REUTERS/Abdalrhman Ismail

Jasmine City Puts on Miles with Unparalleled Neglect,War

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 6, 2017 | Middle East

Damascus- Six years into a devastating war, Damascus plunged into the darkness of neglect and waste accumulating in its slums and upper-class neighborhoods. The city which once the sweet scent of jasmine was bursting all across its streets, now has a sickening reek of...

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Residents walk near damaged buildings in the rebel held area of Old Aleppo, Syria May 5, 2016. REUTERS/Abdalrhman Ismail

Syria: Is It Over?

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Jul 17, 2017 | Opinion

Russian air strikes and cruise missiles, foreign militias and Assad armed forces continue to use coercive force as towns and land stretches from eastern Aleppo to southern Raqqa are brought back under regime control. Syrian rebels, or what is left of them, fight with...

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The historic Beit Beirut building is seen illuminated during a ceremony marking the end of its restoration in Beirut, Lebanon April 27, 2016. The historic building that was damaged during the Lebanese civil war, will house a museum and a cultural centre. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

‘Beit Beirut’ Museum: Between War and Peace

by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 25, 2017 | Lifestyle & Culture

Beirut- The much-anticipated opening of the “Yellow House”- Beit Beirut has been postponed despite the completion of renovations. The Yellow House is also known as the “Barakat building” after the family that lived in it before the war. Its façade covered with bullet...

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A Better Way to Help the World

by BOB CORKER and CHRIS COONS | May 13, 2017 | Opinion

The suffering today in northern Uganda and South Sudan should move even the most hardhearted among us. As members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, we often are confronted with the question of how the United States should respond to such crises. We also have...