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Fire at Nasiriyah coronavirus hospital

The fire was the second such tragedy at an Iraqi coronavirus ward in less than three months.

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Health catastrophe looms in northwest Syria

Hospitals in northwest Syria are closing or limiting services at an alarming rate.

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US special forces raid kills head of Islamic State

Heaps of rubble and a collapsed roof are all that’s left of the home of the former leader of the Islamic State, evidence of a US military operation months in the making. Al-Monitor's Joe Snell reports.

US special forces raid kills head of Islamic State

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Islamic State prison break in northeast Syria

The Islamic State earlier this month attacked a prison in northeast Syria that held as many as 5,000 members of the extremist group. Kurdish-led forces, backed by the US, regained control of the complex, but it's unclear how many IS militants escaped. The search is now underway to find them. Al-Monitor's Joe Snell reports.

Islamic State prison break in northeast Syria

Snowstorms create deadly conditions for displaced Syrians

Heavy snowstorms blasted NW Syria this month. Displaced Syrians now contend with freezing temperatures that have frozen water systems, large blankets of snow that have collapsed shelters and closed roadways, and renewed threats of flooding as the snow melts.

Snowstorms create deadly conditions for displaced Syrians

Children in Syria collect, dismantle war shells

Scavenging through fields in the Idlib countryside, Syrian children carry war remnants to a scrap yard to be sorted and arranged into cargo trucks for transportation to buyers. The debris of war has become their livelihood. Read more here.

Children in Syria collect, dismantle war shells

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US removes Jewish extremist Kahane movement from terror blacklist

Israeli demonstrators carry placards against the extreme right-wing Kach movement founded by slain rabbi Meir Kahane in a March 2019 protest outside the residence of then prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu

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Briton, German on trial in Iraq over pottery shards

Civilisation in Iraq dates back thousands of years but the country's rich heritage has suffered from decades of looting and war

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In blast-hit Lebanese capital, voters want new faces

A voter casts her ballot for the parliamentary election at a polling station in the Lebanese capital Beirut, on May 15, 2022

by Jonathan SAWAYA | AFP | May 15, 2022

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