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Kamal Sheikho is a correspondent for Al Jazeera. He has worked as a correspondent for the Associated Press and published several investigative reports in the London-based newspaper Al-Hayat. Sheikho has written about several topics for the German Deutsche Welle in several languages.
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![An internally displaced boy sits on the ground near a school in the village of al-Heesha in Raqqa district after it was captured from Islamic State, north of Raqqa city, Syria November 15, 2016. REUTERS/Rodi Said - RTX2TU3Q](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2017/04/RTX2TU3Q.jpg/RTX2TU3Q.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=BuibY4ct)
![Men that fled areas of clashes surrender to Syrian Democratic Forces(SDF) fighters north of Raqqa city, Syria March 8, 2017. REUTERS/Rodi Said - RTS12102](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2017/03/RTS12102.jpg/RTS12102.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=htXkYNzi)
![A Syrian refugee mother puts her baby to stroller in Nizip refugee camp, near the Turkish-Syrian border in Gaziantep province, Turkey, November 30, 2016. REUTERS/Umit Bektas - RTSU1P6](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2017/02/RTSU1P6.jpg/RTSU1P6.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=XpPk2oJ2)
![An Assyrian Church is seen damaged, due to what activists said was a bomb placed by Islamic State fighters, in tel Nusri, May 21, 2015. Picture taken May 21, 2015. REUTERS/Rodi Said - RTX1E3X3](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2017/01/RTX1E3X3.jpg/RTX1E3X3.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=CanU_YcE)
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![A Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighter looks through the scope of his weapon in Tal Samin village, north of Raqqa city, Syria November 19, 2016. REUTERS/Rodi Said - RTSSERJ](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2016/11/RTSSERJ.jpg/RTSSERJ.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=xywXQskv)
![TOPSHOT - Turkish troops drive their anti-mine Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) past shepherds on September 4, 2016 on a road near the Syrian village of Tuwairan, located around 2km of al-Rai, the small border town with Turkey.
Turkish forces and Syrian rebels expelled the Islamic State group from the last areas of the Syrian-Turkish border under their control on September 3, 2016, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. / AFP / Nazeer al-Khatib (Photo credit should read NAZEER AL-KHATIB/AFP/G](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2016/09/GettyImages-599453410.jpg/GettyImages-599453410.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=oaz5zx_n)
![TOPSHOT - This picture taken around 5 kilometres west from the Turkish Syrian border city of Karkamis in the southern region of Gaziantep, on August 25, 2016 shows Turkish Army tanks driving to the Syrian Turkish border town of Jarabulus.
Turkey's army backed by international coalition air strikes launched an operation involving fighter jets and elite ground troops to drive Islamic State jihadists out of a key Syrian border town. The air and ground operation, the most ambitious launched by Turkey in the Syr](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2016/09/GettyImages-595018654.jpg/GettyImages-595018654.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=AarwW2hw)
![Syrian families, who fled the assault launched by Arab and Kurdish forces against Islamic State (IS) group fighters in the town of Manbij, arrive at an encampment on the outskirts of the town, 20km away from the center, on June 4, 2016.
Arab and Kurdish fighters backed by Washington have launched an assault on the strategic Manbij pocket further up the Euphrates on the Turkish border, regarded as a key entry point for foreign jihadists.
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![Syria Democratic Forces (SDF) ride vehicles along a road near Manbij, in Aleppo Governorate, Syria, June 25, 2016. REUTERS/Rodi Said - RTX2I6B3](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2016/07/RTX2I6B3.jpg/RTX2I6B3.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=hYmZPtHO)