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      Kareem Shaheen

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      Kareem Shaheen is a veteran Middle East correspondent in Canada

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      An ethnic Armenian fighter carries Kalashnikov machine guns in the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan. AP Photo
      Turkey is using Syrian rebels as pawns in Azerbaijan

      Once the backer of the revolution against the Assad regime, Ankara now recruits rebel soldiers to fight faraway wars

      CommentOctober 08, 2020
      Syrian shepherds herd sheep past a US military convoy near the town of Tal Tamr in the northeastern Syrian Hasakeh province, by the border with Turkey, on April 14. Photo by Delil Souleiman / AFP
      Camera4
      At the very least, families of ISIS victims deserve answers

      With 28 mass graves unearthed, loved ones continue to wait for justice

      CommentOctober 06, 2020
      Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau takes part in a news conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada September 25, 2020. REUTERS/Blair Gable
      A second lockdown will be especially tough in cold countries

      Parts of Canada are reviving stay-at-home measures, adding hardship to an already harsh winter

      CommentOctober 01, 2020
      Forest fires in the north-western Syrian coastal province of Latakia. The outbreak coincided with high temperatures and strong winds, according to the official media. AFP
      Camera8
      Syria: When war meets bushfires

      Forest fires in the Hama region show how ecological losses and battles over resources feed off of each other

      CommentSeptember 24, 2020
      A girl stands in line to receive aid with a group of women at the Kurdish-run Al Hol camp in north-east Syria where families of ISIS foreign fighters are held, on August 18, 2020. AFP
      It is high time the West took responsibility for its role in Syria

      If not out of moral rectitude, then to avoid their citizens becoming foot soldiers of the next so-called caliphate

      CommentSeptember 17, 2020
      Migrant children sit in a shelter near the Tunca river as they wait to resume their efforts to enter Europe near Pazarkule border gate in the city of Edirne, northwest Turkey on March 5, 2020. - EU members on March 4, 2020 rejected what they said is Turkey's use of desperate migrants to pressure its neighbours -- and strongly backed Greece's border crackdown. The EU has scrambled to respond to the surge of migrants at the Greek border, where authorities say some 24,000 were stopped from entering between February 29 - March 2, 2020. (Photo by Ozan KOSE / AFP)
      Camera13
      37 million kids in the Middle East don't have the luxury of remote learning

      Even the figure of 463 million children around the world lacking access to education is an underestimation

      CommentSeptember 10, 2020
      Yemen has had a relatively low number of officially reported cases with 2,000 infections, but that need not represent the full picture. EPA
      Play4:12:26
      In the Middle East, Covid-19 optimism risks fading

      After a slow start, most countries in the region are struggling with major waves of the virus

      CommentSeptember 02, 2020
      FC Bayern Munich's Alphonso Davies has become the first Canadian citizen to win a trophy in the European Champions League. UEFA via Getty
      Alphonso Davies: from refugee to football legend

      The former child refugee has become the first Canadian ever to win a European Champions League title

      CommentAugust 27, 2020
      A Syrian doctor, on her own initiative, instructs children how to properly wear a mask during the Covid-19 outbreak, in a displacement camp in Idlib. AFP
      Camera6
      Does the Syrian regime care about the Covid-19 crisis?

      The pandemic has affected regions held by the regime and the rebels, but little is being done to tackle it

      CommentAugust 26, 2020
      Lebanon's former prime minister Rafik Hariri at a press conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil on June 9, 2003. Mauricio Lima/ AFP
      Camera10
      Rafik Hariri verdict: Nearly $1bn later, where is the justice?

      Even after the Special Tribunal for Lebanon convicted one Hezbollah operative, too many questions remain

      CommentAugust 20, 2020
      'Aftermath' by Tom Young, an artist who lives between London and Beirut. A number of Young's paintings were damaged following the blast on August 4. Tom Young
      Play36:54:24
      I owe everything to Beirut, and I wish I could be there right now

      The seaside city has given so many fond memories, and not even the worst tragedies can take those away

      CommentAugust 11, 2020
      A displaced Syrian woman at the Washukanni Camp for internally displaced people near the predominantly Kurdish city of Hasakeh in northeastern Syria on February 17. Delil Souleiman/ AFP
      Domestic violence is the 'shadow pandemic' we need to fix

      For women, the economic collapse in several countries is likely to make matters worse

      CommentAugust 05, 2020
      TOPSHOT - This picture taken on July 28, 2020 shows a view of the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine, at the centre of the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Mecca, ahead of the annual Muslim Hajj pilgrimage, with rings laid in place around it to separate pilgrims as part of social distancing measures due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. Saudi Arabia begins on July 29 hosting the annual hajj pilgrimage, dramatically downscaled due to the coronavirus pandemic that has barred millions of international pilgrims for the first time in modern history. / AFP / -
      Play69:23:12
      Why my heart breaks for those who cannot perform Hajj this year

      The serenity I felt during my pilgrimage to Makkah and Madinah in 2003 has yet to be matched

      CommentJuly 29, 2020
      A Syrian woman casts her ballot at a polling station in the Nubl neighbourhood of Aleppo on July 19. AFP
      Syria's parliamentary election was a sham

      Nothing is normal in Syria and Bashar Al Assad's international backers are the reason he remains in power

      CommentJuly 22, 2020
      This photo taken in April shows a large refugee camp on the Syrian side of the border with Turkey, near the town of Atma, in Idlib province. AP Photo
      Camera15
      Idlib cannot be left alone to deal with Covid-19

      The effects of an outbreak in the impoverished, rebel-held province of Syria could be devastating

      CommentJuly 15, 2020
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