Sophia Jones
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February 19, 2016
After U.S. airstrikes destroyed a Kunduz hospital, Afghans must travel for days to reach life-saving treatment.
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January 28, 2016
Former child bride Reza Gul is now free from years of torture and hopes to achieve something that once seemed impossible: happiness.
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January 14, 2016
The lives of people in three towns depend on precisely synchronized aid deliveries.
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January 12, 2016
Sophia Jones is the Middle East correspondent for The WorldPost. She has reported from Turkey, Iraq, Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, The West Bank and Gaza. Fo...
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December 10, 2015
Therapists and volunteers are working to help children who “perceive everything as threats.”
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December 1, 2015
Bayrampasa district mayor Atilla Aydiner said a bomb had been placed on a nearby highway overpass.
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December 1, 2015
Sophia Jones is the Middle East correspondent for The WorldPost. She has reported from Turkey, Iraq, Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, The West Bank and Gaza. Fo...
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November 24, 2015
Russia says its fighter jet stayed in Syrian airspace. Turkey insists that’s a lie.
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November 19, 2015
“We have nothing left here, nothing left to lose.”
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November 16, 2015
Survivors say there are perhaps hundreds of Yazidi women, girls and boys held as sex slaves and child soldiers in Raqqa, Syria.
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November 16, 2015
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November 14, 2015
Members of the minority group worry that messy politics and crushing poverty will only prolong their plight.
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November 5, 2015
Washington’s increasing coziness with the Syrian Kurds has made Turkey nervous.
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November 1, 2015
The vote comes less than five months after the president appeared to lose support in a June election.
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October 30, 2015
The men worked with an activist organization that provides a rare look into Raqqa, the Islamic State’s self-proclaimed capital.