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Staff foreign correspondent in the Middle East for the LA Times (RT's not endorsements clearly), covering Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq, & Yemen.

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    25 Jul 2018

    So I guess it's official: I'm an staff foreign correspondent. Too many to thank, like & many many others for taking a chance on a two-bit fiddler. Excited for a new chapter at a great paper.

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    11 hours ago

    A must-read story to to understand what happened to the children who were abducted by . did an extensive report with a visit to their home.

    I first heard of these children because of , but we have to thank and for helping them come home. I'll admit I cried when I saw them.
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    12 hours ago

    Nasrin Sotoudeh, has been sentenced to 38 years in prison and 148 lashes because of her work protesting against Iran’s forced hijab laws. Demand her release now.

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    Bonjour there is your unroll: Thread by : "I like to think little fazes me in this business. But the stories of the four 4 -i boys from got me. latim […]" Share this if you think it's interesting. 🤖

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  5. 12 hours ago

    If you're still here, thank you for reading this far. It's a story that killed me, and I hope I did it justice. (21, and the end. Whew!)

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  6. 12 hours ago

    Mahdi's family is still trying to get back Ali (who, if you recall, was 10 months old when he was kidnapped). The Aoun family is also still searching for two more children. Here, their father shows a poster of the missing family members. (20)

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  7. 13 hours ago

    1 example of that is Ramleh, brought back a few months ago from , where she had been adopted by the brother of a now deceased fighter. Mahdi's family tracked her down. Here she is. She's a clown, glad-handing the crowd like an effusive politician to get a laugh. (19)

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  8. 13 hours ago

    The remarkable thing about this story is how many others share the same fate. There are more than 120 Shiite and hundreds more children still missing. They may be in , but others were taken to . (18)

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  9. 13 hours ago

    But not so Ali. He was like a tightened spring that could not uncoil. Another one of his brothers took off his cap and rubbed his shaved head. His father followed suit. Ali looked down... then started to sob again. (17)

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  10. 13 hours ago

    The meal ended, they were given tea. Khalil was in the lap of his older brother Haidar, who couldn't stop crying and hugging him. Khalil initially barely registered any emotion, but finally was able to give a wan smile. (16)

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  11. 13 hours ago

    Their father finally ushered them for the first family lunch they had in almost five years. It was a feast. But though they ate, there was something... deeply melancholic about them, especially Ali. (He's the one with the cap on his head.) (15)

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  12. 13 hours ago

    The family tried to celebrate, but the kids just couldn't do it. They began to cry. Soon, everyone else was crying too. (Yes, me too, I admit.) (14)

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  13. 13 hours ago

    After the initial party, the Aoun brothers went home for another celebration with their own family. Women ululated while kids threw candy. The Aoun brothers, meanwhile, looked dazed. (13)

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  14. 13 hours ago

    The word "bittersweet" is overused. But there's no other way to see their homecoming. It was a miracle. What remained of their families gathered all the children to celebrate their return, and brought sheep to slaughter (a tradition in the region for joyous occasions.) (12)

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  15. 13 hours ago

    Mahdi and the Aoun boys managed to make it to areas, when they appeared in a video taken by . 5 days later, thanks to the effort of , , and a no. of activists, they were reunited with their families. (11)

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  16. 13 hours ago

    They did, though another commander tried to stop them. In the chaos, they were able to make their escape, but Mahdi lost track of his younger brother, Jamil. He's still in . (10)

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  17. 13 hours ago

    With besieged and surrounded, the orphanage's emir [the militants' term for "commander"], a fellow named Abu Musab Al-Urduni, told them to leave. (9)

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  18. 13 hours ago

    With out of , the kids were taken to , first to , then to Shafa, then to , then to . (8)

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  19. 13 hours ago

    As lost ground, they were moved to different locations. When Mahdi was 8, he joined the "Cubs of the Caliphate," the group's training troupe for kids to become jihadis. He was given a rifle and learned to shoot. (7)

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  20. 13 hours ago

    It was the start of a 5-year ordeal for Mahdi and the others. In the orphanage, they were taught "Quran, Fiqh, Tajweed;" religious instruction according to . "If we made a mistake, they would beat us," said Mahdi.

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  21. 13 hours ago

    militants killed the men, and took the women as slaves (they're still missing). The kids, they took to an orphanage in . Mahdi's 2 youngest siblings -- Ali, 10 months old; and Ramleh, at the time only 2 weeks old-- were given to IS families.

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