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by Rashad Mammadov | 31 Oct 2019 | Middle East, Syria
By Rashad Mammadov Once again, Russia has positioned itself to decide the fate of the Kurds, after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan halted his nation’s military operation in northern Syria following a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. And once...
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by News Decoder | 29 May 2018 | Contests, Discovery, Eyewitness, King's Academy, Middle East, Student Posts, Syria, Youth Voices
This story won first prize in the text category in News-Decoder’s twice-yearly Reporting and Writing Contest. We are publishing all of the winning entries among our Student Posts. By Rand Al-Harahsheh (King’s Academy) Early on a hot Friday afternoon in...
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by News Decoder | 7 Nov 2017 | Decoders, Middle East, Student Posts, Syria
Below is a decoder on the rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia for supremacy in the Islamic world — a struggle that is playing itself out across the Middle East and the Gulf. In its latest twist, Lebanon’s Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri resigned on Saturday,...
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by News Decoder | 3 Oct 2017 | Middle East, Student Posts, Syria, Terrorism
By Chermaine Tay Islamic State fighters are on the run in Syria, squeezed on all sides by armed opponents whose only common goal is to annihilate the militant group. The eventual defeat of ISIS would be welcomed by their many disparate foes, who range from the Syrian...
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by Rashad Mammadov | 11 Apr 2017 | Indiana University, Islam, Middle East, Syria
The United States fired dozens of cruise missiles at a Syrian airbase last week after accusing government forces of launching a nerve gas attack on a rebel-held town that killed 87 people including 31 children. Below, News-Decoder correspondent Rashad Mammadov...
