Sophia Jones
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May 24, 2016
Heads of state from some of the world’s richest and most powerful countries were nowhere to be seen.
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May 24, 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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May 18, 2016
The delivery comes just one week after an international aid convoy failed to reach desperate Syrians living in a nearby besieged city.
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May 11, 2016
Defiant Syrian media activists in Turkey are facing incredible danger for speaking out against ISIS.
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May 5, 2016
With the departure of Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is one step closer to ultimate power.
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April 29, 2016
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April 26, 2016
“Why is war coming after us?” asked one 13-year-old Syrian boy now living in the Turkish border city of Kilis.
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March 31, 2016
Six months after the attack that killed 42 men, women and children, the U.S. military’s lack of transparency is still hurting Afghans.
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March 25, 2016
While activists welcome his release, Mahmoud Hussein is just one of many political prisoners often jailed without cause for years.
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March 22, 2016
The attacks resonated strongly in Istanbul, where a suicide bombing killed four people this weekend.
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March 14, 2016
Some people say the embassy’s pre-emptive warning proves the Turkish government’s incompetence. Others suspect the U.S. government is in cahoots with Kurdish milita...
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March 10, 2016
Giulio Regeni’s death was hardly a freak incident, the resolution says, but instead occurred within a “context of torture, death in custody and enforced disappearan...
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March 7, 2016
They want European leaders to step in as Turkey pushes for an EU bid.
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March 3, 2016
Syrians worry the ceasefire brokered by the U.S. and Russia may not be in their best interest.
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March 2, 2016
“They say it’s dangerous — that we can’t climb mountains. But I can do anything,” one young woman says.
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