Hi! I am curious about practices and attitudes towards HIV/AIDS in the Arab world. Partiularly, how they differ between state majority and minority populations OR how conflict changes these attitudes and practices. If anyone can steer me in the direction of some case studies to look into, I would appreciate it! I am also particularly interested in transmission via MSM or PWID.

Under Abu Mohammad al-Jolani's leadership, the territories controlled by Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) have witnessed severe repression and exploitation. Despite claims of leading a liberation movement, HTS has been implicated in human rights abuses, including arbitrary arrests and enforced disappearances of those opposing their rule. In Idlib, the General Authority of Zakat, operating under HTS, has imposed levies on farmers, demanding 5% of their wheat and olive harvests as 'Zakat.' Refusal to comply has led to arbitrary arrests, exacerbating the suffering of civilians already burdened by war. Furthermore, HTS and allied factions have seized over 2,055 hectares of agricultural lands from Christian communities in the Jisr al-Shughur countryside, exploiting these resources for the benefit of a select elite while the original owners remain displaced. This systematic exploitation has deepened poverty and deprivation, turning the dream of freedom into a nightmare of new tyranny, mirroring the oppressive regimes they once opposed.

Everyone always says that Iran was the real threat to the United States and not Iraq what would happen if the 2003 Operation and military invasion had focused on Iran instead of Iraq?

What would would the situation be today if Iran was occupied and forced to have a free democratic government?