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Fehim Tastekin

Fehim Tastekin

Aug 21, 2015

A vendor sells traditional sweets near a picture of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan in Damascus, Syria July 8, 2015. Picture taken July 8, 2015. REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki - RTX1JOL3 — A vendor sells traditional sweets near a picture of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan in Damascus, Syria, July 8, 2015. — REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki

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Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif attends a press conference in Berlin, Germany, June 15, 2016. REUTERS/Axel Schmidt - RTX2GGHH

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A view shows debris and blood after mortar bombs landed on the canteen of Damascus University's College of Architecture, March 28, 2013 in this handout photograph distributed by Syria's national news agency SANA.Twelve Syrian students were killed on Thursday when rebel mortar bombs landed on the canteen of Damascus University's College of Architecture, state-run media said. Al-Ikhbariya television showed images of doctors pumping the chests of at least two young men and blood splattered on the floor of what

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