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‘Worse every day’: Afghans expect 2019 to be even deadlier
Middle East

‘Worse every day’: Afghans expect 2019 to be even deadlier

  After a year of record bloodshed, Afghans are bracing for an even deadlier 2019 with the threat of a…
Hodeida truce ‘dead duck’ if rebel breaches persist: coalition
Middle East

Hodeida truce ‘dead duck’ if rebel breaches persist: coalition

  A hard-won truce in the battleground Yemeni city of Hodeida will collapse if rebel violations persist and the United…
US-backed forces retake IS hub in east Syria: monitor
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US-backed forces retake IS hub in east Syria: monitor

  Kurdish-dominated forces backed by air strikes by a US-led coalition retook full control of a key jihadist hub in…
Nobel peace prize shines light on rape in conflict
World

Nobel peace prize shines light on rape in conflict

  Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege and Yazidi activist Nadia Murad, an IS sex slave survivor, will be presented with the…
Fight to end rape in war must begin in peacetime: Mukwege
World

Fight to end rape in war must begin in peacetime: Mukwege

  Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege may have won his Nobel prize for his work to end sexual violence in war,…
Israel targets Hezbollah ‘attack tunnels’
Middle East

Israel targets Hezbollah ‘attack tunnels’

  Israeli forces have launched a military operation to “expose and thwart” tunnels it says stretch from Lebanon to its…
‘I will never rejoin’: Record casualties take toll on Afghan forces
Middle East

‘I will never rejoin’: Record casualties take toll on Afghan forces

  After losing countless comrades to better-equipped Taliban fighters and having his salary stolen by superiors, Afghan soldier Beg is…
Taliban control more territory in Afghanistan than at any point since 2001, US inspector says
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Taliban control more territory in Afghanistan than at any point since 2001, US inspector says

  (CNN) – The Taliban have strengthened their grip in Afghanistan over the past three years, according to a new…
Saudi-led coalition masses troops near Yemen’s Hodeidah as pressure mounts to end war
Middle East

Saudi-led coalition masses troops near Yemen’s Hodeidah as pressure mounts to end war

  ADEN (Reuters) – The Saudi-led coalition has massed thousands of troops near Yemen’s main port city of Hodeidah, local…
Decades of war shatter Afghanistan’s glassblowing craft
Middle East

Decades of war shatter Afghanistan’s glassblowing craft

Hunched and shriveled, Afghan glassblower Ghulam Sakhi deftly blows and twirls molten glass into delicate blue and green goblets and…
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