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Hashd fighters clearing sidestreets of ISIS fighters ahead of the column, Shirqat. Iraq’s ‘Good Sunni’
Yazan al-Jabouri, with help from Iranian weapons and U.S. airstrikes, built a Sunni faction of Iraq's Shiite militias. But the fight against ISIS won't be his last.
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A man holds his son while waiting for board a military transport vehicle to a refugee camp on Oct. 25. Candy and Crossroads in Qayyarah
Displaced by ongoing fighting, Iraqi families are braving the journey to safety and stability not far from the offensive in Mosul.
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rsz_1cover_somalia Meet the Tank Girls Taking on al-Shabab
Somalia’s fight against jihad will be decisive for women’s rights — and may be decided by female soldiers.
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Two boys stand near a burning oil pit in Qayyarah, Iraq. The Islamic State Just Wants to Watch the World Burn
As Iraqi forces bear down on Mosul, the jihadi group is setting oil wells ablaze, using civilians as human shields, and executing those who try to flee.
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Ghana - Fuveme - During the high tide the ocean level reaches the same level as the land causing regular floods in the village. Nestled between the ocean and the Volta river estuary, the village of Fuvemeh has seen its territory reduced from several kilometers to few hundred meters. Nowadays, the villages sits on a narrow strip of land which separates the coastline from the adjacent lagoon. Haunted by coastal erosion, its 1,000 inhabitants have literally nowhere to move. The Waves Will Take Us Away
Climate change is destroying thousands of miles of West Africa's coastline. It's only a matter of time before it knocks out the region's economy, too.
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Ghana - Fuveme - A villager carries the roof of his house on his shoulder as the high tide has started and the waves are quickly entering the village and destroying houses on its way. Nestled between the ocean and the Volta river estuary, the village of Fuvemeh has seen its territory reduced from several kilometers to few hundred meters. Nowadays, the villages sits on a narrow strip of land which separates the coastline from the adjacent lagoon. Haunted by coastal erosion, its 1,000 inhabitants have literally nowhere to move. West Africa Is Being Swallowed by the Sea
Encroaching waters off the coast of Togo, Ghana, Mauritania, and others are destroying homes, schools, fish, and a way of life.
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Life jackets and a boat that were used by refugees and migrants to cross the Aegean sea from Turkey lie abandoned on a beach on the Greek Island of Lesbos on October 8, 2015. Europe is grappling with its biggest migration challenge since World War II, with the main surge coming from civil war-torn Syria. AFP PHOTO / ARIS MESSINIS (Photo credit should read ARIS MESSINIS/AFP/Getty Images) Europe Wishes to Inform You That the Refugee Crisis Is Over
But the humanitarian and political crises of the great Syrian exodus are just beginning.
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A young man participating to the nationalist Azov battalion Summer Children's Camp – is yelling energetically while being emotionally charged by his instructor during a tactical training in a forest near the village of Buzova, 30 km west of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. Azov is a former volunteers' battalion, now a regiment of the National Guard of Ukraine, fighting pro-Russian separatists in Eastern Ukraine, especially near the Azov Sea and the port town of Mariupol. It was established in May 2014, after the Kiev's Maidan uprising of 2014. It is the second summer that the Azov battalion organises patriotic summer camps for children across Ukraine. Campfire Songs and Kalashnikovs
Welcome to the nationalist Azov Battalion's camp for kids, where young Ukrainian patriots train for battle and sing songs about death to Russians.
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clinton_share Hillary Clinton for President of the United States
A Donald Trump presidency is among the greatest threats facing America, and the Republican standard-bearer is the worst major-party candidate for the job in U.S. history.
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gettyimages-605542470-crop Hungary Is Too Small for Viktor Orban
He’s outmaneuvered all of his political rivals at home. Now the populist prime minister is setting out to put his stamp on the EU.
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SOMALIA-UAE-UNREST-AID The U.N. Is Sending Thousands of Refugees Back Into a War Zone
Kenya’s plan to close the world’s largest refugee camp involves illegal forced repatriations of Somalis. Why is the U.N. helping to carry it out?
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First Helmand, Then Afghanistan
A trip through the country’s beleaguered south reveals demoralized soldiers, corrupt local officials, and sweeping Taliban gains in previously peaceful towns. How did Obama’s “good war” go so wrong?
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Jonas Despinasse, from Haiti, sits as he waits for the Custom and Border Protection agents to seek for asylum in the United States, on the Mexican side of the San Isidro Port of Entry, on May 26, 2016, in Tijuana, northwestern Mexico. On the past couple of weeks some 600 hundred migrants, mainly from Haiti and some African countries, arrived to Tijuana to try to ask for asylum to the U.S. government through the local points of entry. / AFP / GUILLERMO ARIAS (Photo credit should read GUILLERMO ARIAS/AFP/Getty Images) Longform’s Picks of the Week
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