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Why a Turkish dictator let himself lose an election

Turkey's second president Ismet Inonu surprised the world by stepping down in 1950. Could Erdogan do the same after the 2023 elections?

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Health catastrophe looms in northwest Syria

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

Health catastrophe looms in northwest Syria

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

Politics and Diplomacy

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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Iran unveils underground drone base

Agence France-Presse | AFP | May 28, 2022

Iran police tear-gas protesters after building collapse: media

Iranian Vice President Mohammad Mokhber (2nd-R), shown visiting the site of the collapsed building, said there had been "widespread corruption"

Agence France-Presse | AFP | May 28, 2022

Iran Revolutionary Guards say seized two Greek tankers in Gulf

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), like these members shown in a handout picture provided by the Iranian presidency on September 22, 2019, seized two Greek oil tankers in the Gulf

by Payam DOOST MOHAMADI | AFP | May 27, 2022

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