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Foreign Exchanges

World update: February 21 2020

Stories from Syria, Afghanistan, South Africa, and more

Derek Davison
Feb 22, 2020
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SYRIA

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs is warning that the situation in northwestern Syria “may end in a bloodbath” and to be honest I’m wondering why they didn’t just acknowledge that it is a bloodbath. I know there’s some psychological incentive to telling people that The Bad Thing hasn’t happened yet an…

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