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#WorldPoli: Syrian Kurdish Farmers Accuse Turkey-Backed Militias of Seizing, Taxing Olive Crops – #WorldPolitics

WASHINGTON - In late October, Farhan and his two sons finished packing up their olive harvest to transport it to the city center of Afrin in northwestern Syria. But before d...

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#WorldPoli: Government Troops Target Rebels, Jihadists in Syria’s Idlib – #WorldPolitics

Syria’s government forces and allied militias have continued their assault on targets belonging to rebels and jihadist factions in the northwestern province of Idlib. Government ...

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1 month ago
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#WorldPoli: Libyan Women Seek Greater Participation in Peace Talks – #WorldPolitics

Libyan women played an influential role in the country's popular protests that led to the downfall of Moammar Gadhafi's regime in October 2011. Nine years later, as Libya's w...

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2 months ago
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#WorldPoli: Tajikistan Accused of Intimidating Activists Abroad by Targeting Relatives Back Home – #WorldPolitics

Sharofiddin Gadoev, 35, a Tajik political activist from the Netherlands, was arrested in February 2019 during a visit to Moscow and forcibly deported to his native Tajikistan. Ab...

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2 months ago
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#WorldPoli: Shadowy Turkish Ultra-Nationalist Group Under Scrutiny in Europe – #WorldPolitics

WASHINGTON - A shadowy Turkish ultra-nationalist group is under increasing scrutiny in Europe after French officials banned them for violent actions and inciting hate speech ...

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2 months ago
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#WorldPoli: Iraqi Kurdish Government Raids and Suspends Broadcaster – #WorldPolitics

A prominent Iraqi Kurdistan television network that has been covering anti-government protests that are taking place across the autonomous region was taken off the air Monday. ...

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2 months ago
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#WorldPoli: Kurdish Families Pay Islamic State Ransom to Free Loved Ones – #WorldPolitics

WASHINGTON - For more than six months, a frightening thought often kept Kurdish farmer Mofaq Haji Rashid up at night: he might never see his 23-year-old son again. The night...

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2 months ago
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#WorldPoli: Turkish-Backed Rebels Intensify Attacks on Syrian Town   – #WorldPolitics

A town in northern Syria has increasingly been under attack from rebel groups backed by Turkey amid fears of a new Turkish offensive into the region. On Sunday, Syrian rebel fig...

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2 months ago
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#WorldPoli: Afghan Activists Cautiously Optimistic About New Protection for Rights Defenders – #WorldPolitics

Afghan human rights monitors are sounding the alarm over a spike in attacks against them by unknown assailants, as they cautiously welcome the formation of a new government body ...

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2 months ago
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#WorldPoli: History of Assassinations of Iran’s Top Nuclear Scientists – #WorldPolitics

WASHINGTON - The assassination of Iran’s nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh by unknown assailants last week is the latest in a string of targeted killings of figures behind...

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2 months ago
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