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Could Syrian refugees resettle in Seattle? New group explores ideas
Anny Khan speaks at the weekend grassroots gathering to organize aid and advocacy for Syrian refugees. (Photo by Alex Garland.) Dozens of Seattle-area residents gathered over the weekend to brainstorm...
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Iran troops join Syria war; Russia bombs CIA-trained rebel group
Civil defense members put out the flames on a burning military vehicle at a base controlled by rebel fighters from the Ahrar al-Sham Movement, that was targeted by what activists said were Russian...
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Doctors Without Borders demands probe of U.S. bombing of hospital
Afghan staff react inside a Doctors Without Borders hospital after a U.S. air strike hit a hospital in the city of Kunduz, Afghanistan. (Photo via Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres.) By...
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UW files suit against CIA for documents on El Salvador massacre
Dina Cabrera holds a photo of herself with her son taken in 1982 in the Mesa Grande refugee camp by Philippe Bourgois. Dina was five months pregnant during the November 1981 invasion. (Photo by Keny...
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Sectarian Superpowers: At war with ourselves in Syria
“Hey, whose side are you on?” — A Kurdish female fighter from the People’s Protection Units (YPG) near the site of fighting between ISIS and fighters from the Democratic Forces of Syria in...
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What the Paris attacks felt like for American Muslims
Breaking news of terror attacks like those in Paris carry an extra dimension of fear for Muslims. (Screenshot from ABC News) It was about 4:30 a.m. when I arrived at the airport. Still waking myself...
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How to help Syrian refugees in Seattle
While the rest of the country has been embroiled in an ugly and often ignorant debate about resettling Syrian refugees, the reaction here in the Seattle area has been very different. Last weekend more...
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Women veterans brave unemployment and homelessness
Mutiara Santiago is a sergeant in the U.S. Army Reserve in Marysville, Wash. She was deployed twice to Iraq during the War on Terror over the course of 11 years of active duty. (Photo by Kayla Roberts)...
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Syrian youth design dream apps at Za’atari Refugee Camp
Teens work on their Magic Genius Device designs during a workshop at Za’atari Refugee Camp in Jordan in November 2015. (Photo courtesy of Brian Tomaszewski, Rochester Institute of Technology) “This is...
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Palestinians are feeling the Bern, but not counting on change
Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton at the Democratic presidential candidates’ debate in Milwaukee, in early February. (Photo from REUTERS/Jim Young) Sitting at a cafe with some friends in Ramallah last...
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For Iraqi Americans, the remembrance of two betrayals overlap
President George H. W. Bush visits American troops stationed in Saudi Arabia in 1990, in the lead up to the first Gulf War. (Photo from the Bush Library via Wikipedia) “I had to leave Iraq, my country,...
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Somali diaspora speaks up about the dangers of migrant trafficking
An unidentified relative reacts as she waits for information about her kin Mohamed Farah, who is missing in the Mediterranean Sea following the recent shipwreck at an unknown location between Libya and...
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Once just a transit point, Mexico becoming home to refugees
Viljean Celian (left), 33, repairs bicycles at Quiquica, a workshop that trains and employs migrants, refugees and asylum applicants in Mexico City. He is seen here with Luz Abril Reza López, the...
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Can war bring us together? Sebastian Junger at Town Hall Seattle
Author Sebastian Junger in a photo by photojournalist Tim Hetherington, who was killed covering conflict in Libya in 2011. (Photo via Town Hall Seattle) Why is it such a challenge for military veterans...
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Civilians trapped as Iraq army and Islamic State intensify battle in Fallujah
An Iraqi Shi’ite fighter covers his ear as artillery fires towards Islamic State militants near Falluja, Iraq, May 29, 2016. (Photo by Alaa Al-Marjani for Reuters.) By Maher Nazeh and Saif Hameed CAMP...
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Nearly 120 dead in Baghdad bombings claimed by Islamic State
People gather at the site of a suicide car bomb in the Karrada shopping area, in Baghdad, Iraq July 3, 2016. (Photo by Khalid al Mousily for Reuters.) By Ahmed Rasheed and Maher Chmaytelli BAGHDAD...
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Syrian athletes’ Olympic dreams
Gymnast Ahmad al-Sawas performs gymnastic moves near damaged buildings in the rebel-held Bustan al-Qasr neighbourhood of Aleppo, Syria March 26, 2016. (Photo by Abdalrhman Ismail for Reuters.) As...
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Photos: A cry of hope for Syria on a cold Seattle night
Isra Ayesh leads the March for Aleppo through Pike Market in downtown Seattle on Friday, December 16th. (Photo by Ramon Dompor) About 200 people gathered in Victor Steinbrueck Park in downtown Seattle...
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Putin’s Orphans: Reasons to fear a dark turn in Russia
The Moscow subway. (Photo from Flickr by Stefan Schlautmann) After teaching my Friday night class near the Kremlin in Moscow, my habit was to buy couple of beers at the streetside kiosk, walk to the...
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I fled to the U.S. after my government threatened my life. Trump’s got me...
Demonstrators at the funeral of Lasantha Wickrematunge, an assassinated Sri Lankan journalist, burn an effigy of the Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa in 2009. (Photo by Indi Samarajiva) It was...
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