World update: August 9 2019

Stories from Iraq, Japan, Colombia, and more

Aug 10, 2019

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The Hajj began on Friday, and while I figure it’s extremely unlikely that anybody is reading this newsletter while on pilgrimage, Hajj Mubarak to everybody just the same.

MIDDLE EAST

SYRIA

The Turkish military says that two of its soldiers were wounded on Friday when the Kurdish YPG militia shelled their outpost in Afrin. With Turkey and the US still ironi…

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