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5/20/2022 5:52:21 PM
The number of people with disabilities is soaring in Yemen after seven years of civil war, with amputations in particular rising from attacks on urban areas, the aid group Handicap International said Friday.
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5/16/2022 10:38:10 AM
The first commercial flight in six years took off from Yemen's rebel-held capital on Monday, officials said, part of a fragile truce in the county's grinding civil war.
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5/8/2022 6:02:21 PM
More Syrian children are in need than at any time since a devastating civil war erupted over a decade ago, but funding for them is "dwindling", the United Nations warned Sunday.
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5/8/2022 3:42:54 PM
Syrian President Bashar Assad met with Iranian leaders in Tehran on Sunday, Iranian state-linked media reported, marking his second trip to major wartime ally Iran since Syria's civil war erupted in 2011.
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4/18/2022 10:17:46 PM
Yemen's Houthi rebels have agreed to rid their ranks of child soldiers, who have fought by the thousands during the country's seven years of civil war, the United Nations said Monday.
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3/19/2022 10:26:34 AM
Syrian President Bashar Assad was in the United Arab Emirates on Friday, his office said, marking his first visit to an Arab country since Syria's civil war erupted in 2011.
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War in Ukraine
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Humanitarian
3/9/2022 2:22:16 PM
Russia's offer of "humanitarian corridors" for civilians to flee the Ukrainian cities it has besieged is a well-tried approach Moscow adopted during Syria's devastating civil war.
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World
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Region
2/22/2022 4:22:47 PM
When Tunda Henry's family fled South Sudan's brutal civil war five years ago, they vowed to return after the upheaval. But as the young nation's shaky peace process struggles to make progress, he fears that day may never come.
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1/23/2022 10:12:16 PM
Workers in war-wrecked Yemen recovered five more bodies from the rubble of a prison facility hit by a Saudi-led coalition airstrike, bringing the death toll to at least 87, an international aid group said Sunday.
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1/21/2022 2:05:28 PM
Libya's central bank said on Thursday that it has started a process to reunify after being split for years during the country's civil war.
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1/12/2022 8:57:15 PM
The United Nations will need around $3.9 billion this year to help millions of people in war-torn Yemen, a top UN humanitarian official said Wednesday.
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International
12/28/2021 5:04:07 PM
The humanitarian group Save the Children said Tuesday it has confirmed that two of its staff were among at least 35 people, including children, who were killed in eastern Myanmar on Christmas Eve in an attack it blamed on the country's military.
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Region
12/15/2021 9:49:35 AM
Libya's presidential election, meant to help unify the nation after a decade of civil war, is supposed to take place in just over a week, but calls are mounting for a delay.
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World
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Africa
12/13/2021 5:40:07 PM
The United Nations Human Rights Council is expected to host a special session on the civil war in Ethiopia this week, following an urgent request from the European Union.
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World
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11/26/2021 5:29:54 PM
The deal struck in Sudan to reinstate the prime minister following a military takeover is imperfect but has saved the country from sliding into civil strife, the U.N. envoy to Sudan said on Friday.
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World
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Africa
11/25/2021 11:44:03 AM
The United States on Wednesday warned "there is no military solution" to Ethiopia's civil war and said diplomacy was the "first, last, and only option" after state-affiliated media said Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was at the front line.
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Region
11/9/2021 9:38:01 PM
The foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates met with Syria's president in Damascus on Tuesday, sending the strongest signal yet that the Arab world is willing to re-engage with Bashar Assad.
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Region
11/6/2021 8:01:44 PM
A landmine explosion killed seven people, including a child, in Homs province of central Syria on Saturday, a war monitor reported.
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Region
10/15/2021 11:20:11 AM
Lebanon prepared to bury the victims of its deadliest sectarian unrest in years Friday after gunfire gripped central Beirut for hours and revived the ghosts of the civil war.
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Region
10/14/2021 7:02:38 PM
Bullets riddling residential facades, snipers on roofs, residents crouching inside their homes -- the scenes that filled the streets of Beirut Thursday were all too familiar to many Lebanese.
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