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Wall Street Journal reporter covering Syria, Iraq and ensuing ripples. Formerly Los Angeles Times.

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    Apr 18

    The scale of attacks targeting Syria's hospitals and clinics, doctors and nurses, is unprecedented. They amount to a “calculated dismantling of Syria’s health-care system.” Ensures that even after the war eventually ends, people will continue to die.

    'No hospital, no doctors, no pharmacies.' Syria is facing a health-care crisis, which could end up killing more people than its civil war.
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    4 hours ago

    This art teacher was tortured by authorities. And he drew everything they did to him. Via

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    15 hours ago

    Watch this haunting newly released video footage from the Aug 2013 Sarin attack on East Ghouta. says has seen 261 chemical attacks since. And yet not an ounce of justice - made worse now by increasing international indifference.

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    Aug 20

    The goes on a military tour of -held - a factory, a peach farm & aid delivery to defeated areas. Footage shows immense destruction - but not a single admission of **who** did the destroying. Not one. Was it an earthquake?

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    Aug 19

    The passive deserves a medal for the amount of heavy lifting it does in this atrocious BBC report from Syria. 'Just look at what war can do to a city' (Homs) - as if it's some natural disaster and not the result of Syrian regime's systematic annihilation.

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    Aug 18

    Astonishing graphic from , identifying civilian massacres in Yemen with the bomb makers - Raytheon, Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics. This should be standard in war reporting. Searing images.

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    Aug 17

    Fascinating look inside an Islamic State meeting, where Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi huddled with aides - and exploded in anger. & get to one attendee who recounts the secret conclave from prison. via

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  8. Aug 16

    Missing from Assad's invitation to Syrian refugees and expatriates is one nonnegotiable caveat. It is not every Syrian he welcomes, but rather, every Syrian who is deemed sufficiently loyal to the regime.

    .: When Assad asks Syrians to come home, here’s what he really means
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    Aug 3

    There are so many talented journalists who speak Arabic and/or Hebrew- yet in 2018 there are many publications who don’t think fluency in language of place they are covering is a basic job req’t - one day we will look back on this w embarrassment

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    Aug 16

    1.5 million Syrians have been displaced from their homes by fighting in the last year. The only reason you don't hear more about this is that Lebanon, Turkey & Jordan have closed their gates to fleeing Syrians

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    Aug 14

    Excellent read by and much food for thought for journalists everywhere: Stalking the Story

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    Aug 14

    (THREAD) Peter’s experience has spurred me to share mine. 2 weeks ago, as I was crossing back into Israel from Jordan, I was separated from my family and detained by Shin Bet. “We can make it so you don’t see your kids for a long time” I was warned. This is what happened next

    Benjamin Netanyahu has half-apologized for my detention yesterday at Ben Gurion airport. I'll accept when he apologizes to all the Palestinians and Palestinian-Americans who every day endure far worse …
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    Aug 14

    If the offensive happens, it’s worth remembering what the Assad regime has done in the past in its desperate and brutal bid to regain control over Syria

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    Aug 9

    a story in three parts

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    Aug 13

    The death toll from the explosion in Sarmada, has risen to at least 67 people including young children, according to . Many of the dead were people from Homs and Aleppo who had been forced to Idlib to avoid the fighting

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    With no end to the carnage in sight, 36 dead civilians and dozens of wounded are the current count of victims of the massive explosion in city at dawn today. …
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  16. Aug 13

    “If Western governments and companies start dealing with Foz, they will have taken advanced steps toward normalization of the regime."

    How one man made a fortune from the rubble of Syria’s long war. via
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  17. Aug 12

    Reminder of who starved Syrians. Spoiler: it wasn't the sanctions. "Sieges throughout Syria have remained the primary method of warfare employed by parties to the conflict... leading to moderate or severe acute malnutrition and deaths."

    Greece throws lifeline to Syrian Economy, as country struggles to rebuild by buying Phosphates despite US sanctions. Author thinks US administration is moral, whereas Greeks immoral. Does making moral statement abt Assad outweigh harm of starving Syrians?…
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    Aug 11

    A child is seen trapped under concrete following Syrian government forces air strikes in the opposition town of Orum al-Kubra in the northern province of Aleppo late on August 10, 2018. OMAR HAJ KADOUR / AFP

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    Aug 11

    The father await impatiently about his child’s fate. Will he be alive? Will he hear him again calling him dad? The only answer had for the father is to search tirelessly for his son. After hours of search, father was called to come and hug his child

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    Aug 10

    have a trend of destroying hospitals in the beginning of the military operation so ppl ll leave quickly

    Fire broke out in the National Hospital of the city of Ma'arat al-Nu'man in the Southern countryside of Idlib, after warplanes fired airstrikes using "C5 missiles".
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    Aug 10

    A sight we should never have to see - child sized graves for the 29 victims of an airstrike on their school bus in Yemen

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