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  • May 10, 2014

    Syria's art in exile is roaring

    A Scream, a child in his eternal sleep, chains, passports with countless stamps, car wrecks, bombed-out buildings and numerous small models of corpses glued on to an empty canvas....

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  • May 10, 2014

    Syria: New deadly cluster bomb attacks

    Syrian government forces are using a powerful type of cluster munition rocket not seen before in the conflict, Human Rights Watch said today. The new use of cluster munitions...

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  • May 10, 2014

    The body as the battlefield: victims of Syria's brutal war strategy

    The United Nations has released a new report documenting the evidence that children in Syria have been subject to grave sexual abuses in government detention, recruited to fight with...

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  • May 10, 2014

    Mediterranean gas fields: potential spark for regional conflicts

    Natural gas resources in the Mediterranean Sea will become a principal reason for conflicts in the region between Israel and its allies on the one hand and the neighbouring...

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  • May 10, 2014

    Syria's war cultivates a state policy to torture women and children

    The systematic use of torture in Syria is practiced in the dark. The world is aware of its existence only through anecdotes, reporting that represents the tip of the...

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  • May 10, 2014

    Syrian refugee children: A Lost Generation

    As the Syrian crisis now approaches its fourth year, there is an entire generation of children being shaped by violence, displacement and a constant absence of prospects for their...

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  • May 10, 2014

    Britain's hypocrisy over Gulf links

    “Our foreign policy should always have consistent support for human rights…as its irreducible core,” claimed Foreign Secretary William Hague when he took office in 2010. Despite the rhetoric, which...

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  • May 10, 2014

    The Palestinian community: divided and ruled

    Six of the nine Palestinian refugee camps in Syria have become battlegrounds between armed opposition groups and government forces. As a consequence of this, thousands of civilians are trapped,...

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  • May 10, 2014

    A humanitarian tragedy for Syrian refugees

    Over the last year, the number of Syrian refugees has doubled five times over. Two weeks ago, the UN launched its largest appeal for a single humanitarian emergency ever,...

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  • May 10, 2014

    Gaza defies the blockade and generates solar energy

    In response to the suffocating and continuous electricity crisis in the Gaza Strip, Palestinians in Gaza have begun searching for alternative means of generating electricity, including: generators, batteries, and...

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