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This little toddler named Bilal Tagirov was just two years old when his father kidnapped him and forced him to travel to Syria in October 2015. Bilal's father Hassan Tagirov left the Chechen Republic in order to fight for the self-proclaimed Islamic State. His mother Zalikha Ashakhanova only found out that her son was located in Mosul by chance when she saw a video of him online on July 15, 2017. The toddler was found by Chechen security forces in Mosul and finally reunited with Zalikha in Grozny on Thursday, returning to her waiting arms.
Women living in Haji Ali, a group of villages numbering about 40,000 people in northern Iraq about 40 miles south of Mosul, have taken up arms to protect the area from Islamic State militants. IS-controlled villages are only about a mile away, so women have learned how to use weapons and have started guarding their families' houses at night, in order to help their men, which rotate in and out of the frontline. Villagers fear that IS could sneak across the Tigris river and into the village under the cover of night, and are complaining that locals don't have enough weapons to defend themselves.
"Neither the region nor the world can afford more war," United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warns at the top of a Security Council meeting on Iran's attack on Israel. SOUNDBITE
In less than three months, Israel expects to have immunized all its citizens who are over 16 against the novel coronavirus. Business Insider reports achieving that goal would likely make Israel the world's first to immunize the vast majority of its population. Israel has far outpaced the rest of the world with its vaccination campaign. In fact, it has already administered the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine to about one in five of its citizens. Last week, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu announced a deal with Pfizer to secure enough doses to immunize its adult population by the end of March.
Beirut, May 5 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Wael Hamzeh) The solid waste crisis has re-emerged in Lebanon amid the coronavirus pandemic after the Jdeideh landfill, north of Beirut, stopped its activity after reaching its maximum capacity.FOOTAGE OF RUBBISH IN BEIRUT.
Jerusalem, May 3 (EFE).- Israel allowed primary and secondary school students to return to their classrooms on Sunday despite opposition from several municipalities, which refused to open educational centres until coronavirus prevention measures are guaranteed.Municipalities including Tel Aviv, Beersheva, Haifa and Hadera have asked for more time to prepare schools.FOOTAGE OF CHILDREN GOING TO SCHOOL IN JERUSALEM.
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