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Turkey says no ceasefire violations in Syria’s Idlib: Residents pessimistic about truce, hours after Russia and Turkey announce ceasefire agreement in northwest Syria.

Posted on April 9, 2020 by SarahMcCaw

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/03/tense-calm-prevails-syria-idlib-ceasefire-holds-200306100457396.html

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Syria’s displaced population in Idlib

Posted on April 7, 2020 by SarahMcCaw

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/02/14/world/middleeast/syria-idlib-displaced.html More than 800,000 Syrians have fled violence in the last few months but now they are trapped in Idlis between the Syrian government and Turkey’s closed border with nowhere to go.

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Genghis Khan’s genetic legacy has competition

Posted on March 13, 2018 by SarahMcCaw

https://www.nature.com/news/genghis-khan-s-genetic-legacy-has-competition-1.16767    Genghis Khan has reputation for having a lot of modern descendants, but he may not be the only one. Researchers have found other Y- chromosome lineages that originated in China and other areas throughout Asia and the Middle East.

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