The current conflict in Iraq is affecting all ethnic and sectarian groups, regardless of their political affiliations.
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The current conflict in Iraq is affecting all ethnic and sectarian groups, regardless of their political affiliations.
Israel’s bombardment of residential areas in the densely-populated Gaza Strip caused much civilian “collateral damage”.
For more than a year the international community has stood by as Assad’s forces torture and murder indiscriminately.