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Anna Therese Day is an award-winning independent journalist and the 2020 recipient of the James Foley World Press Freedom Award.You can follow her work via Twitter or Instagram at @ATDLive or on Facebook at Facebook.com/AnnaThereseDay.

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BLACK OUT

Journalist Recounts Airstrike Horror: ‘Everything Was White’

In recent days, Israel has barred foreign media access to Gaza and bombed media offices as attacks on civilians and Palestinian journalists escalate.

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Lost Boys

Forest Whitaker’s Cause: Child Soldiers

The man who once played Idi Amin talks about the suffering of boys and girls in armies around the world—and in U.S. gangs.

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Turnabout

Syria’s Guardian Angels Turned Refugees

During the Iraq war, Syrian families took in thousands of relatives and friends fleeing across the border. Now, in a cruel reversal of fate, they are the ones seeking shelter in a strange land.

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R.I.P.

American Jihadist Dies of Overdose

His sense of justice took him to fight in Syria. American justice accused him of terrorism. Now he’s dead. The fighter I knew.

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"I want to go home"

Syria's Messages To America

Syria's civil war has claimed over 100,000 lives and sent millions of refugees fleeing their homes. As 2013 winds down, displaced Syrians want to share these words with the world.

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Brothers in Arms

Arafat Ally Looks Back

Nine years after Arafat’s death, the world’s richest Palestinian and Arafat’s longtime compatriot remembers his friend and addresses rumors the PLO may have played a role in his demise.

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Dining with Al Qaeda

Anna Therese Day on her meeting with four radical jihadists in Syria.

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A Dark Future for Syria’s Children

Anna Therese Day on the lack of education for Syria’s children.

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My Life as a Jihadist

Anna Therese Day interviews a fighter for al Qaeda.

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Made in Aleppo

Inside Syria’s ‘Candy Factories’

The West won’t supply them with heavy weapons, so rebels must make their own guns and bombs to fight off the government’s attacks. Anna Therese Day tours a secret arms workshop near Aleppo.

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