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The War at Home: The Need for Internal Security Sector Reform in Iraqi Kurdistan

The forces and agencies of Kurdistan’s Ministry of Interior and the Kurdistan Region Security Council, collectively referred to the Kurdistan Region Interior Forces, are now the region’s main security actors, but their role as instruments of partisan rivalry and enforcers of public loyalty to the political bureaus threatens the Kurdistan …

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Attack Targets U.S. Occupation Base in Deir-ez-Zor Countryside

Missiles were fired at a U.S. military base in the province of Deir-ez-Zor, but potential casualties were not revealed, SANA reports. The U.S. occupation military base at the al-Omar oil field in Deir-ez-Zor’s eastern countryside was targeted on Sunday evening with a missile attack for the second time in less …

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From War, to Turkey, to Top Scores: The Story of a Young Syrian Refugee

After fleeing war and taking shelter in Siirt, in 2015, Dlyar Safo got a full score on the LGS, thanks to the support he got from his teachers and family, according to Anadolu Agency. After fleeing the horrors of war in Syria, a young refugee taking shelter in neighboring Turkey …

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