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Hundreds of thousands of people protest in Tahrir Square on 4 February 2011
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The US and the Arab Awakening: Deja vu?
Three years ago, Washington experienced its own dose of "shock and awe" - the PR phrase used to sanitise its brutal invasion of Iraq - when hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of ordinary Arabs to... (photo: Creative Commons / Mona Sosh)
Al Jazeera
Iraqi women chant anti-government slogans during a demonstration in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011. Around 200 people rallied against the lack public services, rampant corruption and a scarcity of government jobs. The protests follow a similar rally a day earlier in Baghdad. The banners in Arabic reads, "we demand the offering of basic services and jobs" and "we are people who do not beg but demand our minimum rights."
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Iraq illegally detaining women: report
Iraqi authorities are detaining thousands of women illegally and subjecting many to torture and ill-treatment, including the threat of sexual abuse, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report published... (photo: AP / Hadi Mizban)
Taipei Times
File - An Iraqi soldier talks with local women during a patrol in the Grayaat area of Baghdads Adhamiyah District. Iraq illegally detains thousands of women, tortures many-HRW
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi authorities are detaining thousands of women illegally and subjecting many to torture and ill-treatment, including the threat of sexual abuse, Human Rights Watch said in a re... (photo: US Army / Sgt. Mike Pryor) Reuters
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In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, residents of the besieged Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp wait to leave the camp, on the southern edge of the Syrian capital Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014. Hama and Syria's Autonomous Solution
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling | Hama was a prelude to Syria's current nightmare. It was also a forewarning of how long-repressed sectarian identities and the suppression of religion a... (photo: AP / SANA) WorldNews.com
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File - In this picture taken on on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014, a citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center (AMC), an anti-Bashar Assad activist group which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Syrian residents and rescue workers check the rubble of houses damaged, according to AMC, attacked by the Syrian forces airplanes in Aleppo, Syria. Key al-Qaida militant reportedly killed in Syria
BEIRUT — A senior figure in an al-Qaida-linked group in Syria has been killed in a bloody dispute with rival rebel factions that has raged for more than three weeks acr... (photo: AP / Aleppo Media Center, AMC) Boston Herald
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President Barack Obama addresses supporters at a fundraising reception in Baltimore, Tuesday, June 12, 2012. Obama, Iraqi Sunni leader talk security, terrorism
President Barack Obama and Iraq's parliamentary speaker have discussed formally integrating Sunni tribal militias into Iraqi government forces that are fighting al-Qaida-... (photo: AP / Patrick Semansky) STL Today
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Hundreds of thousands of people protest in Tahrir Square on 4 February 2011
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Human rights group slams Iraq over treatment of women in pri
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Human rights group slams Iraq over treatment of women in pri
Iraqi women chant anti-government slogans during a demonstration in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011. Around 200 people rallied against the lack public services, rampant corruption and a scarcity of government jobs. The protests follow a similar rally a day earlier in Baghdad. The banners in Arabic reads, "we demand the offering of basic services and jobs" and "we are people who do not beg but demand our minimum rights."
Iraq illegally detaining women: report
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In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, residents of the besieged Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp wait to leave the camp, on the southern edge of the Syrian capital Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014.
Hama and Syria's Autonomous Solution
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Mideast Is Wary Over Iraq, Iran Plan to Unite in Oil Market
Anbar conflict halts Iraq's trucked oil exports to Jorda
Anbar conflict halts Iraq's trucked oil exports to Jorda
Anbar conflict halts Iraq's trucked oil exports to Jorda
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The US and the Arab Awakening: Deja vu?
UN envoy strongly condemns attack against Iraqi Foreign Mini
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UN denounces Vatican on sex abuse
Hundreds of thousands of people protest in Tahrir Square on 4 February 2011
The US and the Arab Awakening: Deja vu?
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Israel, West hail Sharon, Arab world slams him
'Tunisia Embodies Hope in Arab World' - Hollande
The US and the Arab Awakening: Deja vu?
Arab neighbourhood vandalised in Jerusalem
Hundreds of thousands of people protest in Tahrir Square on 4 February 2011
The US and the Arab Awakening: Deja vu?
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