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This photo issued by the Ministry of Defence (MOD) on Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024 shows a RAF Typhoon FGR4 aircraft returning to the base, following strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen. The U.S. and Britain struck 36 Houthi sites in Yemen in a second wave of assaults meant to further disable Iran-backed groups that have relentlessly attacked American and international interests in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war. In addition to the strikes on Saturday, U.S. Central Command says it conducted an additional “self-defense” strike on Sunday against a Houthi anti-ship cruise missile. (AS1 Leah Jones/RAF via AP)

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At least 6 Kurdish fighters are killed in a drone attack on a Syrian base housing US troops
By BASSEM MROUE AND KAREEM CHEHAYEB - Associated Press
Mon,02/05/24-3:33AM , 123 Reads
BEIRUT (AP) — A drone attack on a base housing U.S. troops in eastern Syria killed six allied Kurdish fighters late Sunday, in the first significant attack in Syria or Iraq since the U.S.
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Activists from the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBTQ) community in Lebanon shout slogans and hold up a rainbow demanding rights during a protest in Beirut, Lebanon, June 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

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Rainbows, drag shows, movies: Lebanon's leaders go after perceived symbols of the LGBTQ+ community
By BASSEM MROUE AND KAREEM CHEHAYEB - Associated Press
Fri,09/01/23-1:04AM , 127 Reads
BEIRUT (AP) — Rainbows, school books, movies and drag shows have all been targeted in Lebanon in recent weeks as politicians, religious leaders and vigilante groups step up a campaign against the LGBTQ+ community in a country that has long sh
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Civil defense workers and residents search through the rubble of collapsed buildings in the town of Harem near the Turkish border, Idlib province, Syria, Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed, File)

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Analysis: Syria rebuilding hopes dim as war enters year 13
By BASSEM MROUE AND KAREEM CHEHAYEB - Associated Press
Wed,03/15/23-2:47AM , 45 Reads
BEIRUT (AP) — The recent deadly earthquake in Turkey and Syria which caused billions of dollars in damage has boosted the prospects of Syria's once widely shunned president return to the Arab fold, but appears unlikely to jump-start la
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Syrian Civil Defense workers and security forces search through the wreckage of collapsed buildings after a devastating earthquake rocked Syria and Turkey, in Aleppo, Syria, Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. For years, the people of Aleppo bore the brunt of bombardment and fighting when their city, once Syria's largest and most cosmopolitan, was one of the civil war's fiercest battle zones. Even that didn't prepare them for the new devastation and terror wreaked by this week's earthquake. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki, File)

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Earthquake stuns Syria's Aleppo even after war's horrors
By BASSEM MROUE AND KAREEM CHEHAYEB - Associated Press
Wed,02/08/23-2:20PM , 43 Reads
BEIRUT (AP) — For years, the people of Aleppo bore the brunt of bombardment and fighting when their city, once Syria’s largest and most cosmopolitan, was among the civil war’s fiercest battle zones. Even that didn’t prepare them for the new devastation and terror wreaked by this week’s earthquake.
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