Middle East
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Apr- 2019 -13 April
Climate change: an increasingly dangerous recruiting sergeant for insurgent groups
Extreme weather conditions from climate change are enabling insurgents to more-easily recruit and exert control on populations
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10 April
Iraq offers to try ISIS adherents if Coalition pays millions in court costs
Iraq has offered the US-led Coalition to put hundreds of accused Islamic State members on trial in Baghdad in exchange for millions of dollars
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9 April
Double car bomb in Syria’s Raqqa kills at least 8, mostly civilians
A double bomb attack in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa, a former ISIS bastion, killed at least eight people, mostly civilians
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9 April
German ISIS woman on trial for war crimes accused of letting Yazidi slave girl die of thirst
A German woman who joined ISIS went on trial accused of the war crime of letting a five-year-old Yazidi slave girl die of thirst in the sun
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9 April
The US-Israel ‘special relationship’ subsidizes American military industry and Israeli colonialism
The US military industry profiting from the colonization of Palestinian land is a long-term structuring element of the US-Israel special relationship, Anna Badillo argues
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8 April
Trump designates Iran’s IRGC as foreign terrorist organization in US first
President Donald Trump announced the US is designating Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organization
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8 April
UN humanitarian coordinator urges investigation into Yemen students’ deaths blamed on airstrike
The UN called for an investigation into the deaths of 11 civilians in Yemen's capital, where rebels accused a Saudi-led coalition of carrying out an airstrike
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5 April
Yemen children killed and injured after pupil brings unexploded ordnance to school
Two children were killed and eight critically wounded when an unexploded bomb went off at a school in the Yemeni capital, UNICEF said
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5 April
Germany repatriates children of ISIS fighters from Iraq
Germany has repatriated from Iraq children of jailed ISIS adherents, the foreign ministry said, as the war against ISIS draws to a close
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4 April
US House votes to end military support for Yemen war
The US House voted to end military support for the Yemen war, dealing a rebuke to Donald Trump and curtailing a president's war-making powers
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