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Taylor Luck @taylorluck.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
The contradiction at the heart of #Gaza’s hunger crisis is stark. On paper, aid deliveries are rising; in practice, #Israeli bombardments, displacement, and collapsing infrastructure mean families still go hungry. It means #famine still stalks #Palestinians www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle...
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In Gaza, military offensive and civilian chaos hinder food aid
The arrival of more food sparked hope in Gaza that famine might be avoided. But supplies are insufficient and distribution hard to organize.
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Anne Caprara @annecaprara.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Just walking around the hellscape that is my Chicago neighborhood this morning
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Taylor Luck @taylorluck.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Foreign media outlets rely on Gazans to risk their lives daily for their reporting, yet absolutely nothing is done to protect them from being killed in Israeli strikes. Any journalist worth the title should be ashamed. #journalismisnotacrime #gaza #israel www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Four journalists among 20 killed in Israeli strike on Gaza hospital, say health officials
Deaths take the number of Palestinian journalists killed in the conflict since 7 October 2023 to at least 192
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Taylor Luck @taylorluck.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
#Israel has the power to avert #famine in #Gaza. Will it use it? @csmonitor.bsky.social www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle...
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Israel has the power to avert famine in Gaza. Will it use it?
Humanitarian professionals say famine can be averted in Gaza, but only if Israel allows much more food and other aid into the strip.
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Taylor Luck @taylorluck.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Iran state TV reports that the Iranian parliament has voted to close the Strait of Hormuz, a vital chokepoint in the Persian Gulf through which 20% of the worlds oil and thousands of cargo ships pass through. #Iran #Israel #US #Trump english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-...
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Iran’s top security body to decide on Hormuz closure after parliament approval:
Iran’s Supreme National Security Council must make the final decision on whether to close the Strait of Hormuz, Iran’s Press TV said on Sunday, after
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Taylor Luck @taylorluck.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
President #Trump is reportedly leaning towards entering the #US into #Israel's war on #Iran. Can #Arab states, led by the Gulf, change his mind? @csmonitor.bsky.social #SaudiArabia #UAE #Gulf #Jordan www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle...
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In the line of fire, Arab states urge Trump to de-escalate Israel-Iran war
Despite their competition for regional influence, Arab states are not rooting for the Iranian regime’s fall. Led by Saudi Arabia and the UAE, they are urging President Trump to seek a ceasefire, and a...
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Taylor Luck @taylorluck.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
don't forget #Gaza that is all.
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Taylor Luck @taylorluck.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
The next 24 hours will determine whether President #Trump’s “military strikes as negotiation leverage” with #Iran will become a strategic success or a historic failure that haunts the Mideast, and America, for year to come.
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Taylor Luck @taylorluck.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
After a period of emergency, calm has returned to #Amman. The #Jordan army reports it has knocked down #Iranian drones and missiles over the kingdom (heading to #Israel). But make no mistake: #Arab countries are in the direct firing line of #Israel-#Iran war and have the most to lose.
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Taylor Luck @taylorluck.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Lawrence of Arabia bombed the Hejaz Railway. #Syria is working to get it running again. My latest in @csmonitor.bsky.social www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle...
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Lawrence of Arabia bombed the Hejaz Railway. Syria wants it to run again.
More than a century after Arab revolutionaries blew up the Ottomans’ prized Hejaz Railway, located in the geographic heart of the Middle East, Syria’s new government is pushing full steam ahead on its...
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Greg Fitzgerald @gfitzboston.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Donald Trump was elected partly on the promise of a factory renaissance. Made-in-America may come back, but not necessarily in the places that led U.S. manufacturing 80 years ago. #jobs #factories #RustBelt www.csmonitor.com/Business/202...
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Trump promised to bring jobs to the Rust Belt. The Sun Belt may get them instead.
Donald Trump was elected partly on the promise of a factory renaissance. Made-in-America may come back, but not necessarily in the places that led U.S. manufacturing 80 years ago.
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Greg Fitzgerald @gfitzboston.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
A new regional alignment is rising in the Middle East signaling a shift in power away from Iran’s weakened “Axis of Resistance.” Moderate Sunnis seeking stability and prosperity now have friendly governments in Beirut, Damascus, and Baghdad. #MiddleEast #Iran #cooperation
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Across Arab Mideast, a new alignment rises: An axis of cooperation
A new regional alignment rising in the Middle East shifts power away from Iran’s “Axis of Resistance.” Moderate Sunnis seeking stability and prosperity now have friendly governments in Beirut, Damascu...
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Taylor Luck @taylorluck.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
My latest on #Substack: In the Ashes of the Axis of Resistance, a Mideast Axis of Cooperation Rises open.substack.com/pub/taylorlu...
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In the Ashes of the Axis of Resistance, a Mideast Axis of Cooperation Rises
Iran’s axis of resistance is no more.
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Taylor Luck @taylorluck.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Amid the ashes of #Iran 's Axis of Resistance, a new Mideast alignment rises: the Axis of Cooperation www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle... #Syria #SaudiArabia #UAE #Jordan #Iraq #Lebanon
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Across Arab Mideast, a new alignment rises: An axis of cooperation
A new regional alignment rising in the Middle East shifts power away from Iran’s “Axis of Resistance.” Moderate Sunnis seeking stability and prosperity now have friendly governments in Beirut, Damascu...
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former SAHM @formersahm.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
For me as a reader, some relief and hope in this desire for peace, 5,000 miles away. I’ll take it. Thank you, @taylorluck.bsky.social www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle...
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Across Arab Mideast, a new alignment rises: An axis of cooperation
A new regional alignment rising in the Middle East shifts power away from Iran’s “Axis of Resistance.” Moderate Sunnis seeking stability and prosperity now have friendly governments in Beirut, Damascu...
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Monica Marks @monicamarks.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Polling from Pew & Gallup shows that most Americans now hold unfavourable views of Israel & Hamas. But our leaders remain woefully out of step with mainstream opinion. The time is ripe for leaders who Sister Souljah pro-Oct. 7 nuts but chart a dramatically different course on Israel.
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Taylor Luck @taylorluck.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Syrian business owners who for years worked around sanctions to turn a profit by hook or by crook are now eyeing a meteoric rise. "We are in a transition from North Korea to South Korea,” says Mohamed Al Hafi, of Al Hafi Cousins Trading Company. #Syria #Trump www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle...
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As sanctions fall, long-suppressed Syrian economy is poised to take off
After Syrian businesses toiled for years to turn a profit, the announced dropping of U.S. and EU sanctions is sweeping the country with rare optimism. The government’s intent to open the long-closed e...
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Taylor Luck @taylorluck.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
I am open minded, but even I didn't have Trump calling Syrian President Ahmed Sharaa an "attractive guy" on my Middle East Bingo card. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump meets Syria’s ‘attractive, tough’ president after lifting US sanctions
Meeting with Ahmed al-Sharaa in Saudi Arabia seen as step towards recognition of new Syrian authority’s legitimacy
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Aron Lund @aronlund.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
This @axios.com report by @barakravid.bsky.social suggests the United States is fully on board with the Israeli aid-control plan, whereas every single humanitarian group or UN agency working in Gaza have declared that they won’t touch it. www.axios.com/2025/05/04/u...
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UN and aid groups denounce Israeli-U.S. plan for Gaza aid delivery
"It contravenes fundamental humanitarian principles and appears designed to reinforce control over life-sustaining items as a pressure tactic."
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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Pope Francis's final wish was to transform his popemobile into a mobile health clinic for the children of Gaza. Caritas Jerusalem is now making it happen. 🕊️ Well after his death, he continues to bless us with his beautiful heart. Rest in peace, gentle soul. www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
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The Popemobile of Peace: Pope Francis’ final gift to Gaza - Vatican News
Pope Francis requests that his popemobile be turned into a health clinic for the children of Gaza.
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Gregg Carlstrom @glcarlstrom.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
"Is it risky to have my name on this article" is a question I've asked myself living in authoritarian countries. Now it's a question college students in America are asking. Trump is carrying out a shameful and un-American assault on one of our core values www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
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Fearing Trump’s Visa Crackdown, College Students Race to Scrub Op-Eds
Campus newspapers are confronting ethics debates as foreign students ask that their names and views be removed from past articles.
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Gregg Carlstrom @glcarlstrom.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Tom Friedman showing once again why he's still the GOAT: he has updated his "columns based on taxi rides" shtick for the era of self-driving taxis
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Gregg Carlstrom @glcarlstrom.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Since Trump returned to office, American air strikes in the Middle East and Africa have surged: at least 19 in Somalia (compared to 11 in all of 2024), 37 consecutive days of bombing in Yemen, and a hard-to-count number in Syria and Iraq. www.economist.com/internationa...
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Trump’s red-hot war on terror
Strikes against jihadis are surging. Is it 2001 all over again?
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Taylor Luck @taylorluck.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
In the wake of militant cell activity, #Jordan bans the Muslim Brotherhood as an "illegal movement", seizes its property and bans any political or media entity from working with the dissolved Brotherhood or spreading its ideology. Jordan's largest opposition movement is banned. Expect arrests.
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Taylor Luck @taylorluck.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
The Islamic Action Front- the political arm of #Jordan 's Muslim Brotherhood- announced it has frozen the party membership of three individuals wanted in the case of a sleeper cell producing missiles in Jordan. www.khaberni.com/news/705511-...
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العمل الإسلامي يجمد عضوية 3 أعضاء وردت أسماؤهم في قضية تصنيع السلاح
العمل الإسلامي يجمد عضوية 3 أعضاء وردت أسماؤهم في قضية تصنيع السلاح
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Taylor Luck @taylorluck.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
#Jordan has busted an alleged Muslim Brotherhood/ #Hamas linked cell manufacturing missiles in the kingdom. Should Jordan ban the Brotherhood in response, it will be the biggest political development in the kingdom in nearly 30 years. www.almamlakatv.com/news/166524-...
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اعترافات موسعة للمتهمين بقضايا الخلية التي ضبطتها دائرة المخابرات
بثت قناة المملكة اعترافات جديدة موسعة أدلى بها المتورطون في مخططات، أحبطتها مؤخراً دائرة المخابرات العامة، كانت تستهدف المساس بالأمن الوطني وإثارة الفوضى والتخريب داخل الأردن. وأسفرت الجهود الأمنية.....
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Monica Marks @monicamarks.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
If you study dictatorships’ economies, you’ll see that selective enforcement of the tax code (to enrich friends, incentivise donors & punish critics) is a key tool. It’s foundational to the political economy of authoritarianism. Trump wants this. If he gets it, US democracy dies. 🧵⬇️
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Taylor Luck @taylorluck.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I am happy to share my latest analysis on #Substack The Anti- #Hamas Protests in #Gaza: What it means, how to look beyond the spin, and the new narratives emerging from Gazans retaking the public sphere. open.substack.com/pub/taylorlu...
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Gaza’s Anti-Hamas Protests: A New Narrative
It all began in Beit Lahia on March 25.
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Gregg Carlstrom @glcarlstrom.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
What are Israel's new goals in Gaza? To "empty permanently" the area around Rafah, around 20% of Gaza's territory; to herd Gaza's 2m people to the coast and create "kill zones" elsewhere; and to control aid distribution, rather than coordinating it with humanitarian groups.
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The Christian Science Monitor @csmonitor.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Facing internal and external foes, Syria rebuilds and rethinks its army
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Facing internal and external foes, Syria rebuilds and rethinks its army
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Elder millennials watching traders freak out about a global economic collapse that will wreck tens of millions of lives and livelihoods, possibly irreparably
James Franco "first time?" meme
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Barnes & Noble @barnesandnoble.com · 06/04/2025
Hi. Books are incredibly important. Please let them be.
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Taylor Luck @taylorluck.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
At what point as a journalist are you just reporting the same stories of death, despair and hopelessness in #Gaza? At what point do you become part of the cycle, of the cynicism, of the pointlessness? At what point do you become part of the dehumanization?
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Julius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
France, the country of true justice
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The Christian Science Monitor @csmonitor.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
New Israeli corridor in southern Gaza; Netanyahu, Trump to meet again
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New Israeli corridor in southern Gaza; Netanyahu, Trump to meet again
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Gregg Carlstrom @glcarlstrom.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
In case there was any doubt, the Shin Bet director's letter to Israel's high court makes clear: "The war's continuation, on multiple fronts, was for Netanyahu's personal benefit... a diversion from his trial, used as an excuse for the interminable delays." www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Israel's ousted Shin Bet head confirms: War benefits Netanyahu
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Taylor Luck @taylorluck.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Hundreds of Palestinians turned out in protests in four towns/camps across #Gaza today demanding an end to the war and for #Hamas to "leave." Different groups and governments have interests to underplay or overplay the demos but one thing is clear: Gazans want an end to the war and even Hamas' rule
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The Christian Science Monitor @csmonitor.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Syria reweaves its identity
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Syria reweaves its identity
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Taylor Luck @taylorluck.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
On the back of an alleged Jordanian proposal for 3,000 #Hamas military & civilian leaders to exit #Gaza in return for an enduring ceasefire & reconstruction, scattered protests against Hamas rule are erupting in the Strip. Gazans' message: you can be both against #Israel 's offensive & Hamas
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Taylor Luck @taylorluck.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
As journalists, it is our job to continue to shine light on #Israel' s offensive on #Gaza, the loss of life, the humanitarian suffering. But we also need to report on #Hamas as a party to the war, with agency and actions affecting the course of the bloody conflict. We need to do both better.
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Sophie @anxi0usvirgo.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I am truly terrified for Hamdan. If you don’t know who Hamdan Ballal is, he is the director of No Other Land and he and Yuval both won the Oscar for Best Documentary this year
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Taylor Luck @taylorluck.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
My latest on #Substack The Jihadist Who Would Be #Syria's President: Ahmed al-Sharaa's (and interim govt's) 100-day report card open.substack.com/pub/taylorlu...
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The Jihadist Who Would Be Syria’s President: Ahmed al-Sharaa’s 100-day Report Card
A look at how the interim Syrian government has handled freedoms, security, the economy, governance and foreign policy
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The Christian Science Monitor @csmonitor.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
The Istanbul mayor’s arrest, and rise of a ‘new model’ of Turkish autocracy
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The Istanbul mayor’s arrest, and rise of a ‘new model’ of Turkish autocracy
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Taylor Luck @taylorluck.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
#Syria 's new rulers are spread thin as they face huge security, diplomatic, economic challenges. Here is how civil society is stepping in and filling the gaps- making the country run. www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle...
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‘A chance to build’: How Syrian civil society is making the country work
Across Syria, as the interim government struggles to provide both security and services, local civil society groups are helping to fill the voids. But is there a part for them to play in politics, and...
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Monica Marks @monicamarks.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
This painful message comes from a member of Standing Together, the Israeli-Palestinian organisation that's worked tirelessly to get aid into Gaza, even putting their bodies btw aid trucks & violent settlers who attack them. His empathy lights the path toward ending this madness. 🧵
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Taylor Luck @taylorluck.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
My latest at @wilsoncentermep.bsky.social @wilsoncenter.org #Syria hangs by a thread while #US sanctions block reconstruction. Rebuilding and security in the post-war Syria is increasingly linked. www.wilsoncenter.org/article/syri...
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Syria Hangs By A Thread While US Sanctions Block Reconstruction
Major US Sanctions are a major barrier to reconstruction in Syria. With violence erupting on the country’s coast, US policymakers remain skeptical of lifting sanctions on the new government, which des...
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Taylor Luck @taylorluck.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
I recently spoke to Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Andrew West on the implications of the recent spate of violence in northwest #Syria and potential paths to progress. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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What are the implications of the recent violence in Syria? - ABC listen
An uneasy calm had settled over Syria, and religious minorities were more hopeful they could survive the new regime. But what are the implications of recent clashes with loyalists to the Assad regime?
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Taylor Luck @taylorluck.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
is this thing on?
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Taylor Luck @taylorluck.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
An insurgency by gunmen loyal to the ousted government of Bashar al-Assad and a wave of sectarian revenge killings are threatening to transform #Syria from a cautious success story to the Middle East’s next crisis--jeopardizing its reconstruction and recovery. www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle...
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Deadly clashes in Syria are precisely what new leaders sought to avert
Sectarian violence involving supporters of the deposed Assad regime has left hundreds dead, calling into question whether Syria’s new rulers can maintain discipline over a patchwork of armed militant ...
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