Syria’s mass graves: Accounting for the dead and disappeared is crucial for the nation to heal
Shortly after the fall of Bashar Assad in Syria in December 2024, reports emerged of mass graves being uncovered in liberated ...
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See Mosul’s Historic Leaning Minaret Tower, Rebuilt After Destruction by ISIS
Eight years after the Iraqi city was left in ruins, Mosul’s rich multicultural heritage is slowly but surely beginning to flower again ...
Austin Marathon runner on trek to share his story, help Doctors Without Borders | Opinion
Daryush Nourbaha knows he’s fortunate. As an American, he’s had security and opportunities. Now he hopes he can pay some of ...
Mosul’s renowned minaret restored from ravages of Islamic State
Mosul’s Grand al-Nuri Mosque, known for its eight-century-old leaning minaret, destroyed by Islamic State militants in 2017, ...
Portraits of casualties of the Iraq War make ‘Someone Will Remember Us’ unforgettable
PROVIDENCE — Testimony’s ambitious sister. That’s what the late South African Nobel Peace Prize recipient Desmond Tutu called plays whose theatrical narratives and ensemble of characters are built ...
War-ravaged landmarks in Iraq’s Mosul are reopening after UNESCO-led restoration project
A UNESCO-led project is restoring historic landmarks in Iraq's Mosul, including the Al-Hadbaa Minaret and key churches, after being destroyed by ISIS. View on euronews ...
ThePrint7dOpinion
Whose Bangladesh is it anyway? Ordinary people, Jamaat, or Pakistan?
Today’s Bangladesh must, like Hamlet, confront the question that haunted him. To be, or not to be, the Bangladesh birthed by ...
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Historic landmarks in Iraq's Mosul are reopening as the city heals from Islamic State devastation
For over 850 years, the leaning minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri stood as an iconic landmark in the Iraqi city of Mosul ...
Trump's bold proposal to 'take over' the Gaza Strip draws outrage from Washington to Rafah amid fears it will lead to bloody US occupation
Donald Trump 's bold plan to have the U.S. take over Gaza and transform it from rubble into a Middle East 'Riviera' is ...
Ukraine-Russia war latest: Moscow apartment bomb kills pro-Putin collaborator as Kyiv strikes energy plants
Sergey Efremov, the deputy governor of Russia’s eastern region of Primorsky Krai, was killed after he returned to the Russian frontline from a battle with Ukrainian forces in the Kursk region. He was ...
Christian Science Monitor14d
After Assad’s fall, Syrians search for lost loved ones – and a path forward
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...
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The Israelis left behind in 50 mn. tons of bomb-infested rubble in Gaza, as hundreds of thousands stream home
Clearing this rubble will be extremely dangerous for the following reasons. Since returning to Gaza in November 2023, explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) teams of the UN Mine Action Service have ...