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A picture taken from the West Bank city of Hebron on July 6, 2016 shows buildings under construction in the Kiryat Arba Jewish settlement on the outskirts of the Palestinian flashpoint city. / AFP PHOTO / HAZEM BADER
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A boy skips at a school in Yemen’s capital Sana’a sheltering people. Photo: Reuters
U.N. Appeals for 2 $Billion to Avert Famine in Yemen
New York- The United Nations appealed Wednesday for 2.1 billion dollars to provide desperately needed aid to 12 million people – around half of Yemen’s population – in the war-ravaged country this year. “Two years of war have devastated Yemen and...Caption:
Members of the Iranian Army march during a parade marking the anniversary of the beginning of the Iran-Iraq war, which lasted from 1980 to 1988, in Tehran, Iran September 22, 2015. REUTERS/Raheb Homavandi/TIMA
CIA Documents: Who Started the Iran-Iraq War?
Washington- One of the certain failures of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is that it waited seven years after the Iran-Iraq war sparked to ask the analysts and experts in Iraqi and Iranian affairs a simple question: who started the war? CIA analysts prepared a...Caption:
United Nations (U.N.) peacekeepers patrol in their vehicle during Liberia’s presidential election run-off, along a street in Monrovia November 8, 2011. REUTERS/Luc Gnago
U.S. Envoy Eyes Cuts to U.N. Peacekeeping
Washington’s new U.N. envoy Nikki Haley is putting in motion a far-reaching review of U.N. peacekeeping that is likely to lead to closures and downsizing of missions, according to diplomats. Haley took up her post with a vow to overhaul the United Nations and...Caption:
Iraqi fighters inspect weapons abandoned by ISIS in Qaraqosh (also known as Hamdaniya), 30 kilometers east of the northern city of Mosul, Iraq, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)