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West ups heat on Damascus as Ghouta civilians wait for aid

West ups heat on Damascus as Ghouta civilians wait for aid

Western powers turned up the heat on Damascus on Friday as tens of thousands of civilians in Syria’s battered rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta awaited desperately needed aid. More than 600 civilians have been killed in the enclave outside Damascus since Russia-backed regime forces launched an assault on February 18. Eastern Ghouta’s 400,000 residents have […]

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Islamic State executes more than 160 Syria troops – monitor

Islamic State executes more than 160 Syria troops – monitor

Aug 28, – News of the killings comes as US President Barack Obama is reportedly weighing air strikes on IS positions in Syria and coming closer to greenlighting a mission to aid Shiite Turkmen trapped in an Iraqi town by the jihadists. Islamic State jihadists have executed more then 160 fleeing Syrian soldiers, a monitoring […]

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Ethiopia’s press freedom faces uncertain future

Ethiopia’s press freedom faces uncertain future

June 02, AP – Ethiopian journalist Muluken Tesfahun of the privately owned weekly newspaper Ethio-Mehedar was arrested while reporting on the return of thousands of farmers who had been forced from their land near the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. The government has admitted the March evictions were illegal, but so far no charges have been […]

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