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U.S. Daily Death Toll Spikes as Leaders Warn of Impact on the Poor

Mayor Bill de Blasio and Anthony Fauci have both voiced worries that coronavirus death toll may disproportionately affect the poor.

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The Coronavirus Will Destroy Turkey’s Economy

Ankara’s finances were weak before the pandemic—but the combination of external debt, a public health crisis, and a president who chooses to protect his reputation rather than his people could spell disaster.

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Aykan Erdemir, John A. Lechner

Thou Shalt Practice Social Distancing

The world’s major faiths face a test, and some religious leaders are failing by endangering human lives in the name of adhering to tradition—and ushering in a new age of secularism in the process.

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America Needs a National Service Draft Now to Fight the Coronavirus

Nations have always mobilized young people when facing existential crises like war. The case for national service has never been clearer.

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Charli Carpenter

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Report: Desperate, Thousands of Syrians Flee Toward Turkish Border Desperate, Thousands of Syrians Flee Toward ...

Elizabeth Tsurkov

Elizabeth Tsurkov is a Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute focusing on the Levant.

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Syrian people displaced from the south of Idlib province arrive at a camp for the internally displaced

Desperate, Thousands of Syrians Flee Toward Turkish Border

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Elizabeth Tsurkov

February 10, 2020, 4:48 PM

People walk near heavily damaged buildings in the rebel-held city of Idlib in northwestern Syria on Sept. 16.

Idlib Faces a Fearsome Future: Islamist Rule or Mass Murder

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Elizabeth Tsurkov

September 19, 2019, 4:01 PM

A man carries a bag across his shoulders in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa, the former Syrian capital of the Islamic State group, on May 1.

In the Islamic State’s Former Stronghold, a Secret Yearning for Assad

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Elizabeth Tsurkov

July 26, 2019, 1:45 PM

Abdelkhaleq Jouloud sits with his family in their tent at a camp for displaced people in Hammam al-Alil, south of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, on Nov. 12, 2018.

Among Displaced Iraqis, One Group Is Worse Off Than the Rest

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Elizabeth Tsurkov, Basma Alloush

April 29, 2019, 12:16 PM

Israeli soldiers near the Syrian border in the Israel-occupied Golan Heights on May 10. (Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images)

Inside Israel’s Secret Program to Back Syrian Rebels

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Elizabeth Tsurkov

September 6, 2018, 7:30 AM

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