The US is pivoting away from focusing on groups like al-Qaeda and ISIS — at least until the next attack. On March 10, the US military carried out an airstrike near the town of Ugunji, a little more than 40 miles southwest of the Somali capital of Mogadishu. According to …
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How Palestinians who fled Syria war to Egypt are forced into illiteracy
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