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fromwww.npr.org
1 week ago

From guns to ballots: FARC's campaign for votes in Colombia

Former FARC guerrillas in Colombia face electoral challenges after transitioning to politics following a 2016 peace treaty that guaranteed them congressional seats now expiring.
World politics
fromThe New Yorker
2 weeks ago

How ISIS Seduced the Syrian City of Manbij

Manbij's liberation from Assad in 2012 created freedom but also chaos, inequality, and crime, enabling the Islamic State to gain influence in the city.
fromenglish.elpais.com
2 months ago

It is easier to overthrow a tyrant than to govern a leaderless country

Any lingering doubts about the true motives behind the 2003 invasion of Iraq were dispelled when looters were ransacking Baghdad, carrying off millennia-old artifacts from the Iraqi capital's archaeological museum, while U.S. troops fortified the Ministry of Oilthe only government building left untouched and from which not a single document emerged. The disastrous and illegal invasion, spearheaded by the United States with military support from the United Kingdom
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fromwww.aljazeera.com
3 months ago

One year after the fall of al-Assad, a reporter returns to Damascus

Damascus shifted from abandoned Assad-era symbols and chaotic liberation celebrations to organised control under a new government and renewed public expression within one year.
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