Aleppo had fallen to the rebels by the time Assad landed back in Damascus.
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Robert F. Worth,
The Atlantic,
6 Feb. 2026
According to a United Nations report, since seizing Rubaya, the rebels have imposed taxes on the trade and transport of coltan, generating at least $800,000 a month.
Those funds often backed far-right Republican insurgents.
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CBS News,
CBS News,
10 Feb. 2026
Amid the nods to social media and cancel culture and the shallow perils of modern celebrity, the image of Taylor-Joy’s disciplined group of insurgents, who speak in almost archaic, poetic dialogue, strikes a bracing contrast.
Iris Apatow and Costa D'Angelo are the latest troublemakers to stir the pot at Baird.
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Allison DeGrushe,
Entertainment Weekly,
14 Jan. 2026
Mindy went from having sort of nothing to too much, and the idea of Mindy and Alfie was just too irresistible, these two troublemakers who find each other.
That was Sokolowski’s introduction to a network of sadistic online extremists.
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Curt Devine,
CNN Money,
10 Feb. 2026
More than 150 Christians were abducted from three churches in another part of Kaduna in January before being released this week while at least 160 people, mostly Muslims, were killed by Islamic extremists in Kwara state for refusing to be indoctrinated.
The same flag was carried by insurrectionists on January 6, 2021, and flown by Justice Samuel Alito’s wife at the couple’s vacation home.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton,
The Atlantic,
29 Jan. 2026
People's Liberation Army troops under Mao's control either ignored the violence or offered support to the insurrectionists while the country descended into lawlessness and retribution.
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