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Farah Najjar

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Farah is a member of the Middle East and North Africa desk, writing news, analysis and features with a particular focus on Palestine. Prior to joining Global News Insight, Farah worked at the Daily News Egypt in Cairo. She frequently travels in the Middle East from where she has also reported on Lebanese political affairs, Syrian and Palestinian refugee communities in Lebanon, and Syria’s civil war. Farah has also previously reported from Turkey and from Egypt, where she covered the 2011 Arab Spring uprising. Farah was in Lebanon during the 2019-2020 anti-government protests, and in southern Turkey when the military pushed into northeast Syria to target Kurdish forces.

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The Syrian army has declared Aleppo’s Kurdish areas ‘closed military zones’ and ordered civilians to leave.

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Two soldiers flank a coffin draped with the Venezuelan flag

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U.S. President Donald Trump addresses House Republicans at their annual issues conference retreat, at the Kennedy Center, renamed the Trump-Kennedy Center by the Trump-appointed board of directors, in Washington, D.C., U.S., January 6, 2026. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Abducted Venezuelan president appears in US federal court on drug-related charges, and UNSC meets to discuss the crisis.

A supporter of the arrest of ousted Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro shouts outside the Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse after Maduro attended his arraignment hearing on January 5, 2026 in New York.

The US bombs Venezuela and topples President Nicolas Maduro who was abducted with his wife and taken to New York City.

CARACAS, VENEZUELA - NOVEMBER 25: President of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro talks with Minister of Defense Vladimir Padrino Lopez during a military ceremony commemorating the 200th anniversary of the presentation of the 'Sword of Peru' to Venezuelan independence hero Simón Bolívar on November 25, 2025, in Caracas, Venezuela. The United States recently designated the "Cartel De Los Soles" (Cartel of The Suns) as a foreign terrorist organization, a group allegedly led by the president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, and which, it is presumed, includes high-ranking members of the Venezuelan government. (Photo by Jesus Vargas/Getty Images)

UN agencies warn Israel’s ban of 37 aid agencies will undermine crucial relief work in the war-battered Strip.

A Palestinian youth collects water from a tank set up in Gaza City, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2025, amid the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israeli air and ground operations. [File: Jehad Alshrafi/AP]

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A Palestinian man walks with children next to the rubble of destroyed buildings in the Jabalia refugee camp, in the northern Gaza Strip on December 24, 2025. (Photo by Bashar Taleb / AFP)

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FILE - Muslim refugees from Srebrenica, eastern Bosnia, pass by UN armored personnel carriers.

UK seeks revision of the European Convention on Human Rights amid pressure from the far right.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer applauds at a podium.

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