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In this photo taken on September 15, 2016 women and children queue to enter one of the Unicef nutrition clinics at the Muna makeshift camp which houses more than 16,000 IDPs (internally displaced people) on the outskirts of Maiduguri, Borno State, northeastern Nigeria. AFP PHOTO / STEFAN HEUNIS

Uprooted by War, Threatened by Boko Haram and Desperate to Go Home

by Dionne Searcey | Mar 22, 2017 | Features

Maiduguri, Nigeria — Dozens of drivers lined up in beat-up vehicles stuffed with mattresses, cooking pots and other belongings, clogging a road outside one of the most desperate and dangerous camps that serve as refuge from the war with Boko Haram. All were waiting...

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Children react after what activists said was shelling by Assad forces near the Syrian Arab Red Crescent center in the Douma neighborhood of Damascus. Reuters

Over 320,000 People Dead in Syria War amid Rising Violence against Children

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Mar 13, 2017 | Middle East

Syria’s war has killed just over 320,000 people since it erupted six years ago as violence against children in the war-ravaged country was “at its worst” in 2016, a monitor and the UN’s children’s agency said Monday. The Britain-based...

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People mourn at the graves of three polio vaccinators who died in a suicide bombing in Kabul on March 1. (Sayed Salahuddin/for The Washington Post)

Terrorist Attacks in Kabul…Violence, Endless War

by Pamela Constable | Mar 12, 2017 | Features

KABUL — Behroz Haidary was a skilled surgeon, army captain, environmental activist and father of three. On Wednesday, he was making rounds at Kabul’s main military hospital when he was shot dead by gunmen who had infiltrated the facility, disguised as medics. It was...

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Syrian bio-medical engineer and sign language teacher Wisal Al Ahdab communicates using sign language with 21-year-old deaf student Riyad Hommos during a class at the EEMAA association, an NGO center for the deaf in Damascus’ Midan district on March 7, 2016. Joseph Eid/AFP

Deaf Syrians Learn the Language of War

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 10, 2017 | Features

Damascus- At an NGO in Damascus, two young deaf Syrians, Bisher and Ryad, are working to create special sign language characters so thousands of Syrians like them can talk about the war that has ravaged their country for the past six years. They have created a way to...

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Residents queue up to receive humanitarian aid at the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk, in Damascus March 11, 2015. REUTERS/Stringer

A World of Fear and Hatred

by Eyad Abu Shakra | Mar 1, 2017 | Opinion

From the security meetings in Bonn, Munich and Baku, to the French and German elections, following Britain’s Brexit vote and Trump’s election, the world looks worried, anxious and different. Is it a crisis of priorities, or a problem of concepts? Are we still capable...