Tag: America
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In Saddam’s Shadow: What has the American intervention changed in Iraq
2003-04, 15 years since the United States’ Operation Iraqi freedom ended, many in Iraq feel that its brutal dictator Saddam Hussein has gone for a good while others are still nostalgic about his rule. Iraq became a notorious country under Hussein’s rule, It invaded Iran in 1980 and launched a full-scale war to capture…
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Bombs, Shrapnel and Books: Syria’s Secret Library
In a country totally devastated by 9 years of war, hardly anyone would want to save a library while defending last inch of their territory from Pro-Assad Forces. Syria, now into its ninth year of civil war has witnessed 191,369 deaths (Data till 2014) and 10.9 million Syrians, or almost half the population, has been…
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Trump-Kim Summit: What’s in it for stakeholders?
The much anticipated diplomatic summit took place in Singapore on June 12 between the U.S and Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Heavy words exchanged, threats issued, nuclear weapons tested and missiles test-fired, these all have built up to the Trump-Kim summit. In a major diplomacy victory for Trump, summit presents a great opportunity to denuclearize…
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