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NAJAF, IRAQ - AUGUST 30: Relatives bury a family member who died from coronavirus at the Wadi Al-salam cemetery on August 30, 2020 in Najaf, Iraq. On September 4, Iraq recorded 5,036 coronavirus cases, its biggest daily increase since the start of the outbreak. The surge has prompted warnings from Iraq's health minister and WHO that the country could be on the verge of a health crisis as pressure mounts on the already strained healthcare system. Since the first case was recorded in February, Iraq has recorded 252,075 total cases and 7,359 deaths. (Photo by Hawre Khalid/Getty Images)

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Bombs Couldn’t Erase ISIS from Mosul. Better Governance Might

BEIRUT, LEBANON - OCTOBER 17: People wave Lebanese flags and chant to mark the one-year anniversary of anti-government protests on October 17, 2020 in Beirut, Lebanon. On the one year anniversary since the unprecedented mass protests of Lebanese demanding political change as the country buckled under social and economic devastation, Beirut remains in rubble after the August 4 port blast. (Photo by Marwan Tahtah/Getty Images)

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Lebanon Is in Free Fall. Opposition Groups Have Radically Different Ideas about How to Save It.

NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 11: The 'Tribute in Light' memorial lights up lower Manhattan near One World Trade Center on September 11, 2018 in New York City. The tribute at the site of the World Trade Center towers has been an annual event in New York since March 11, 2002.Throughout the country services are being held to remember the 2,977 people who were killed in New York, the Pentagon and rural Pennsylvania in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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A World Still Disfigured by 9/11

AL-HIMAH, YEMEN - SEPTEMBER 22: Fighters with the Tariq Salah Forces, a militia aligned with Yemen's Saudi-led coalition-backed government, man an outpost a few kilometers from the frontline on September 22, 2018 in Al-Himah, Yemen. A coalition military campaign has moved west along Yemen's coast toward Hodeidah, where increasingly bloody battles have killed hundreds since June, putting the country's fragile food supply at risk. (Photo by Andrew Renneisen/Getty Images)

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Fantasies of State Power Cannot Solve Yemen’s War

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - MAY 24: Israelis protest in support Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu near the district court on May 24, 2020 in Jerusalem, Israel. The prime minister, who strongly denies the charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust, was recently sworn in to office at the head of a national unity government formed with his opponent Benny Gantz. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)

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The Assault on Israel’s Judiciary

Syria, Al Mayadeen, Deir Ezzor (Deir Ez-Zor) governorate, 11 October 2020

In the Photo: WFP food distribution in Al Mayadeen city
(Deir Ezzor governorate).

Photo: WFP/Taha Hussain

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Syrians Are Going Hungry. Will the West Act?