Security Strategy of Recruiting Cheap Militiamen Backfires in Africa
By arming civilians who are poorly trained and have little to no respect for human rights, the military in Burkina Faso has ...
Murfreesboro Cemetery School to be restored by descendants of students who went there
Preservationists seek to restore Cemetery School building that served Black children from 1941 to 1962 prior to desegregation ...
Book talk highlights Tubman’s heroism, Black freedom during Civil War
The Lincolnville Preservation and Historical Society will host a book talk with author Dr. Edda Fields-Black on her book ...
Syria War Updates: Israel denies sending tanks to Damascus; HTS vows justice for Assad’s war crimes
The Israeli military on Tuesday denied reports that its tanks were advancing towards Damascus, insisting that Israeli forces ...
Poor morale, reliance on foreign allies: The collapse of Assad’s army in Syria explained
As rebels swept into Damascus last week, toppling former President Bashar al-Assad, his army simply collapsed, abruptly ...
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Searching for Loved Ones in a Newly Liberated Syrian Prison
Since then, as the war intensified, the prison became, by all accounts, even more terrible. In 2021, the Syrian Observatory ...
“Politics Is Finally Possible”: After Surprise Fall of Assad in Protracted Civil War, What’s Next?
As Syrians celebrate the fall of the Assad regime after more than five decades of iron rule, many are grappling with the enormity of what has happened to their country, with nearly 14 years of war ...
How Assad's army collapsed in Syria: demoralised conscripts, absent allies
Twenty-three-year-old Syrian military conscript Farhan al-Khouli was badly paid and demoralized. His army outpost in ...
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Alleged Land Grabbing: I didn’t threaten Nyesom Wike’s life – VeryDarkMan
Popular social media critic and human rights activist Martins Ortse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan (VDM), has denied ...
Demoralised and abandoned by allies: why Assad’s army failed to fight in Syria
Twenty-three-year-old Syrian military conscript Farhan al-Khouli was badly paid and demoralized. For years, the Islamist ...
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Yemen's civil war through the lenses of photojournalist Asmaa Waguih
A world-renowned news photographer has spoken to FRANCE 24 about her efforts to document the conflict in Yemen. Asmaa Waguih has been to numerous countries, including Afghanistan and Libya – and won ...