Sophia Jones
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'It's Impossible To Forget': Descendants Of Armenian Genocide Want Legacy Of Those Killed To Live On
Yetvart Tomasyan’s father, Bedros (second from right), poses with his family for a photograph in the early 1900s in the Ottoman Empire, now modern-day Turkey. The fam...
WASHINGTON — Turkey and Saudi Arabia, two nations with a long history of rivalry, are in high-level talks with the goal of forming a military alliance to oust Syrian ...
Trying to get out of Yemen’s conflict alive presents some stark choices. Airports are closed. Many roads are impassible. There is the ocean, but the crossing is dange...
I cover international news at The Huffington Post. I previously worked on documentaries for PBS FRONTLINE and reported for Ma'an News Agency in the West Bank.
BAGHDAD — Ever since he was a boy, Sufyan dreamed of the day he would pass down his name to a son of his own. When the big day came in the summer of 1990, Sufyan, a S...
BAGHDAD — If it wasn’t for a phone call from his wife asking to meet up for lunch, Baleeg Nasr likely would have died when a massive car bomb detonated next to his ...
TIKRIT, Iraq — There’s a ghost town called al-Dour on the way from Baghdad to the besieged city of Tikrit, where the United States began striking the Islamic State ...
Iraqi security forces and al-Hashid al-Shabi forces prepare in Tikrit to stage an attack with heavy weapons on March 26. (Photo by Ali Mohammed/Anadolu Agency/Getty Ima...
BAGHDAD — It’s all a ruse, some Iraqis say, nothing more than a carefully thought-out plan to destabilize their bloodied country even more. Twelve years after the 2...
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...
ISTANBUL — Four years into a bloody civil war, many Syrians say the revolution that erupted in March 2011 has been all but forgotten by the international community. T...
All the videos are set to one song — the soundtrack frequently used by the Islamic State group in its propaganda videos meant to lure in recruits and spread terror. B...
Dozens of young Turkish flag football players stretch on a field at Istanbul Technical University on March 1. ISTANBUL — At first glance, the scene of boisterous youn...
KARKEMISH, Turkey — If the three Brooklyn men arrested Wednesday on charges of aiding and plotting to join the Islamic State had boarded flights to Turkey, they likel...
AL AOUR, Egypt –- In the dead of night, there was a pounding at the door and a scream. It was members of the Islamic State, who had come to kidnap and kill the Christ...