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SYRIA: Iraqis use Syrian conflict to settle old scores
13 July 2012
(IRIN
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Iraqis with old vendettas have taken advantage of the chaos and instability in Syria to pursue Iraqi refugees there, with a string of kidnappings in recent months, according to an official with the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95856/SYRIA-Iraqis-use-Syrian-conflict-to-settle-old-scores
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AID POLICY: Accountability in Islam
4 July 2012
(IRIN
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The rights-based framework may only have been formally adopted by the international humanitarian and development community in the past decade; but the concept that people in need have a right to assistance has existed in the Muslim world since the birth of Islam.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95742/AID-POLICY-Accountability-in-Islam
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JORDAN-SYRIA: Elderly Syrian refugees need more care
29 June 2012
(IRIN
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Haweyah Khawis, born in 1909, lived more than 100 years in Homs, Syria, until two months ago when she was smuggled to the Jordanian border accompanied by Anoud, her daughter-in-law.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95762/JORDAN-SYRIA-Elderly-Syrian-refugees-need-more-care
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Analysis: Bound by conflict, the Syrian-Lebanon crisis
25 June 2012
(IRIN
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For more than a generation, the northern Lebanese town of Tripoli has been a divided city, home to most of Lebanon’s Shia Alawi community, but also a stronghold of Sunni conservatism.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95724/Analysis-Bound-by-conflict-the-Syrian-Lebanon-crisis
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Analysis: Principles or pragmatism? Negotiating access in Syria
8 June 2012
(IRIN
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A Syrian government response plan, agreed with the UN after six weeks of negotiations, satisfies minimum humanitarian principles of neutrality and impartiality but falls short of the unhindered access the international humanitarian community was calling for, according to aid workers.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95606/Analysis-Principles-or-pragmatism-Negotiating-access-in-Syria
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JORDAN-SYRIA: Laila, “I had to be smuggled into Jordan”
6 June 2012
(IRIN
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Ten years ago Laila* got married to a man from her hometown of Dera’a in Syria, expecting a happy life. She never imagined that one day she would leave him behind fighting Syrian regime forces, and flee to Jordan with four children. Two months ago, Leila fled Dera’a, after the area became a war zone following a March 2011 uprising against the government of President Bashar Al Assad.
http://www.irinnews.org/HOV/95588/JORDAN-SYRIA-Laila-I-had-to-be-smuggled-into-Jordan
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AID POLICY: Making Muslim aid more effective
1 June 2012
(IRIN
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Between the foreign aid of oil-rich Gulf States and the billions of dollars spent by Muslims in “mandatory” alms and charity every year, the Muslim world is by all accounts a huge reservoir of potential in the world of aid funding.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95567/AID-POLICY-Making-Muslim-aid-more-effective
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Analysis: A faith-based aid revolution in the Muslim world?
1 June 2012
(IRIN
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Every year, somewhere between US$200 billion and $1 trillion are spent in “mandatory” alms and voluntary charity across the Muslim world, Islamic financial analysts estimate.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95564/Analysis-A-faith-based-aid-revolution-in-the-Muslim-world
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Analysis: Syria’s forgotten refugees
23 April 2012
(IRIN
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It was 21 February 2006. The date is etched in Samia’s* mind. She was in her kitchen making tea for her brother’s family, who was visiting her at her home in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, when gunfire broke out in the sitting room.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95336/Analysis-Syria-s-forgotten-refugees
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IRAQ-SYRIA: Samia, "Why can't they just take us out of here?"
23 April 2012
(IRIN
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Syria is home to the largest Iraqi refugee population in the world - an estimated one million people, of whom 102,000 are registered with the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
http://www.irinnews.org/HOV/95338/IRAQ-SYRIA-Samia-Why-can-t-they-just-take-us-out-of-here
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