Razan Shalab Al-Sham

Syrian Emergency Task Force

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Head of the Syrian Emergency Task Force, a non-profit supporting democracy in Syria

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The Islamic State controls so much of Iraq and Syria it’s able to finance its self-styled “caliphate” by selling oil.

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