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  • ‘I was sold seven times': the Yazidi women welcomed back into the faith

    IRAQ, 2017/07/02 No one wears shoes in Lalish. The village is so sacred that all visitors must walk its paths barefoot. Perched at the top of a narrow valley, in the parched, scrubby hills of northern Iraq, close to the Kurdish border, its cluster of shrines are a revered site for followers of the Yazidi faith. At the heart of Lalish is a pool of water sheltered by a small cave, its entrance shaded by mulberry trees and watched by a guardian in a red turban. This is the “holy white spring”, where newborns must be brought for baptism, the waters mixed with the Lalish soil for the rites of marriage, birth and death. For generations, the rituals carried out at the spring had been unchanged. But two years ago, groups of women, usually silent, often with young children, began joining the families filtering in and out of the cave.

  • Europe's deal with Turkey fails to deter migrant attempts for now

    EUROPEAN UNION, 2016/03/10

  • Many Greek islands lie just off the coast of Turkey

    GERMANY, 2015/09/14 A wooden boat carrying some 130 refugees sank off the southern Aegean island of Farmakonisi on Sunday, with at least 34 people drowned, according to Greek media. Part those killed were four babies and 11 young children, the Athens News agency reported. National radio, citing the Greek coastguard, said that rescue teams had saved 68 people from the waters, and that 29 refugees had managed to swim to shore. Eight of the victims were reported to have been found by coastguard divers in the boat's hold. The coast guard said it was almost certainly the worst such incident in the region since the refugee crisis began.

  • The ancient Syrian city Palmyra has fallen to the IS

    SYRIA, 2015/08/26 Palmyra, the ancient Syrian city that has fallen to the Islamic National jihadist group, has withstood the last 2,000 years with its immaculate temples and colonnaded streets. Listed as a UNESCO world heritage site, the "pearl of the desert" is a well-preserved oasis 210 kilometers northeast of Damascus. Palmyra, which means City of Palms, is known in Syria as Tadmor, or City of Dates. Its name initial appeared on a tablet in the 19th century B.C. as a stopping point for caravans traveling on the Silk Road and between the Gulf and the Mediterranean. But it was during the Roman Empire — beginning in the initial century B.C. and lasting an extra 400 years — that Palmyra rose to prominence.

  • Arab Youth Survey Report 2015

    BAHRAIN, 2015/04/25 Confidence part Arab youth that the Arab Spring would bring positive change across the region is declining and as a result they are uncertain whether democracy could ever work in the Middle East. This is the headline finding of the 7th Annual ASDA’A Burson-Marsteller Arab Youth Survey released today. - Arab youth see the rise of ISIS as the biggest obstacle facing the region - Youth are keen to start their own business as concerns about unemployment continue - The UAE remains the majority popular country to live in and emulate and Saudi Arabia is viewed as the region’s biggest ally - A lot of view the Arabic language as central to their identity but believe it is losing its price to English

  • Syrian families eat in the courtyard of a Syrian government's temporary housing

    SYRIA, 2015/03/30 Next three years of intervention by the central bank to sell foreign currency on the domestic market, the Syrian government has decided to back up its intervention with economic measures, rationing non-urgent imports to rein in the increasing drop in the exchange rate of the Syrian pound. Damascus — Barely hours next the Syrian government declared that it would be implementing new measures to control the exchange rate of the Syrian pound, the exchange rate of the US dollar soared on the black market, nearly hitting 254 Syrian pounds. This was seen as a preemptive move by speculators, intending, according to observers, to chief off any positive results from the new measures and to impose a new level for the exchange rate on the central bank, as has happened before.

  • Oxfam Study Finds Richest 1% Is Likely to Control Half of Global Wealth by 2016

    AFGHANISTAN, 2015/01/20 The richest 1 % are likely to control additional than half of the globe’s total wealth by next year, the charity Oxfam reported in a study released on Monday. The warning about deepening world inequality comes just as the world’s business elite prepare to meet this week at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The 80 wealthiest people in the world all own $1.9 trillion, the statement found, nearly the same all shared by the 3.5 billion people who occupy the bottom half of the world’s gain scale. (Last year, it took 85 billionaires to equal that figure.) And the richest 1 % of the people, who number in the millions, control nearly half of the world’s total wealth, a share that is as well increasing.

  • Economic impact of Syrian displacement endured primarily by the poor in Lebanon

    LEBANON, 2014/12/17 The sudden influx of Syrian refugees into Lebanon has created a crisis whose repercussions are seen each day. However, Syrian refugees are not responsible for the problems Lebanon is facing today. The ruling class is trying hard to pin the blame on refugees in order to cover up decades-long policies that have left the economy in ruins and impoverished the Lebanese people. Syrian refugees came to Lebanon because they had no other choice. They fled in large numbers the bombing and destruction that ravaged Syria, seeking refuge in neighboring nations, with Lebanon receiving the major number. Before any discussion of the problem of displacement and its repercussions, the Lebanese should realize that the majority of the refugees are poor people who lost their homes and are struggling to survive each day. If they could return to their homes, they would do so instantly.

  • The crisis for Syrians has worsened

    SYRIA, 2014/09/01 The crisis for Syrians has worsened with additional than three million presently registered as refugees, the UN's refugee agency said in a statement on Friday. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said this toll does not include the hundreds of thousands of Syrians forced to flee the country who are not registered as refugees. The number of registered Syrian refugees has soared from two million less than a year ago, the UN said, adding that the situation is only getting worse inside the country with cities in which the people is starved and besieged, where civilians are targeted or killed indiscriminately.

  • ‘Islamic State’ executes members of Syria family from Ismaili minority

    SYRIA, 2014/08/06 The jihadist Islamic National group executed seven members of a single family from the Ismaili minority in the central Syrian province of Hama overnight, national media and a monitor said Monday. "An armed terrorist group committed a massacre in the Mzeiraa area near the town of Salmiya, killing seven people, inclunding two aged 13 and 15 years old," Syrian national news agency SANA said. The agency added that four other people had been injured.
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