White Helmets, known officially as the Syria Civil Defense, is a formal emergency response team of civilian volunteers and an apolitical organization
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Do Returning IS fighters Deserve an Amnesty?
Historically, amnesties have been offered to former combatants in an attempt to stop the violence and allow a country the chance to rebuild itself. A…
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Political Upheaval Brings Women Together in Healing
by Maria Assaf in Oxford, England Imagine being a child bride in pre-revolutionary Iran – suffering abuse on a daily basis, being forced into a…
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WWII Exhibit Remembers Canadian Troops in Hong Kong
The 75th anniversary of the Battle of Hong Kong is being commemorated across Canada by veterans and survivors of Japanese occupation and their families. About…
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Syria’s grave humanitarian crisis draws a great deal of challenges and risks for humanitarian workers in the area, says one representative of the International Committee…
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by Amanda Connolly The West needs to stop intervening in the Middle East and allow Bashar al-Assad to regain control of Syria if it has…
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