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No Way Out

On December 5, during the UNSC meeting Russia and China voted against a draft resolution on Syria. The draft resolution, co-sponsored by Egypt, New Zealand and Spain, proposes a 10-day pause in Aleppo. Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov slammed the initiative as a provocation […]
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Iraqi army launches fresh assault toward Mosul center

Iraqi army units surged toward the center of Mosul on Tuesday in an attack from the city’s southeastern edges that could give fresh impetus to the seven-week-old battle for Islamic State’s Iraqi stronghold. Campaign commander Lieutenant General Abdul Ameer Rasheed Yarallah was quoted by Iraqi […]
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LEBANESE WOMEN PROTEST AGAINST RAPE LAW

A dozen Lebanese women, dressed as brides in white wedding dresses stained with fake blood and bandages, have gathered outside government buildings in Lebanon’s capital to protest a law that allows a rapist to get away with his crime if he marries the survivor. The […]
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Kerry: Israel ‘Heading to a Place of Danger’

WASHINGTON — Remarks by the U.S. secretary of state on Sunday are being quickly interpreted by the Israeli media as harsh criticism and undiplomatic. Before a predominately pro-Israel audience in Washington, John Kerry warned that the Jewish state is “heading to a place of danger” because […]