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This Happened — October 17: Raqqa Freed From ISIS

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Post date October 17, 2024

Updated Oct. 17, 2024 at 11:00 a.m. Raqqa was declared fully liberated from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria on this day in 2017. Why was Raqqa so important in the Syrian Civil War? Raqqa was of strategic importance because it served as the self-proclaimed capital of ISIS and was a center for the […]

Tags iraq, isil, levant, liberation, middle east, raqqa, syria, syrian civil war, syrian government, war

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Anti-Migrant Racism Is Undermining Egypt’s Claim To Arab World Leadership

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Post date May 13, 2024

Palesitinians leave Khan Yunis towards safer areas in Rafah following the directives of the Israeli army. Mohammed Talatene/dpa/ZUMA

An Egyptian journalist surprised by the growing and incomprehensible campaign over the past months that raises slogans against Arab “refugees” who were forced by civil wars in their countries — Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Sudan — to reside in Egypt.

Tags abdel halim, arab countries, arab world, egyptian economy, levant, migration, president gamal abdel nasser, refugees, social media, soft power

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