Adrift in Syria, Iraqi woman's dreams die
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For a while in postwar Iraq, life looked up for Ahlam al-Jibouri, who found a well-paid job working with the U.S. authorities after the 2003 invasion.
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Nearly two million Iraqis have fled to Jordan and Syria, threatening the social and economic fabric in both countries.
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Hassan, an aid worker, was kidnapped in Iraq last month. She was the director of CARE International in Iraq and had lived in Iraq for 30 years.
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For decades, she was a voice of peace and unity in a troubled region, but a Syria tour has proved that even Fayrouz cannot remain above the fray
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The young actress was trapped amid the devastation.
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Syria is responding with a mixture of bravado and denial to mounting accusations by the United States and Iraq that it&#39;s a staging ground for the Iraqi insurgency with key
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The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees and Arab countries are struggling to absorb a flood of Iraqis fleeing the violence in their country. A look at the problem:
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DAMASCUS, Syria -- Last Sunday, Munir al-Sayed, a middle-aged Sunni Arab from the northern city of Aleppo, quietly did something he had done only once before in his life, without telling his wife or his friends.
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JOUNIEH, Lebanon -- It was his wife's miscarriage that finally drove Ali Abdulrazak Lafta to flee Iraq's war for the life of a refugee in Lebanon -- another war zone, but one much more manageable for his family.
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A woman pulled a pistol on Iraq's defense minister in his office but then broke down in tears in a failed assassination plot hatched by an Iraqi group in Syria, the minister said in comments published on Saturday. Hazim al-Shaalan told the pan-Arab al-Hayat newspaper the 40-year-old woman had drawn the gun, loaded with poisoned bullets, during a meeting with him and other officials more than one week ago.
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BAGHDAD -- Browsing the shelves of a cosmetics store in the Karrada  shopping district, Zahra Khalid felt giddy at the sight of Alberto shampoo and Miss Rose eye shadow, blusher and powder.
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Sitting amid mounds of rotting garbage in a rubbish dump in Baghdad, 13-year-old Huda Hamdan is the human face of a new U.N. report that says a third of war- torn Iraq's 26 million people live in poverty.
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Iraqi actors hoped the fall of Saddam  Hussein would herald a new era of artistic freedom. But they  have seen their dreams destroyed by violence.
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About 8,000 women lack permanent shelter. Need is likely to rise as more women return from war.
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BIYARA, Iraq  - A year and a half ago, Ari Askanda  would have been risking death selling Western music and DVDs  from his small shop on the main street of Biyara in Iraq's  Kurdish zone. Now he even sells alcohol under the counter.
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BAGHDAD, March 9 -- On a pile of bricks, someone had left a pink plastic flower, a pair of glasses and a book with crisp, white pages. They glowed in the black debris of Mutanabi Street, which by Friday had become a graveyard of memories. At 9:03 a.m., a man in a rumpled brown suit walked past dark...
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Fardous al-Ubaidi, head of the Iraqi Red Crescent Society, said she tried to get a permission from the Iraqi government to provide Iraqi civilians in the city with needed humanitarian supplies but her request was turned down.