Leela Jacinto

Leela Jacinto is an award-winning international news reporter at France 24 specializing in the Middle East and South Asia.
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Yemen's ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh gives a speech addressing his supporters during a rally as his political party, the General People's Congress, marks 35 years since its founding, at Sabaeen Square in the capital Sanaa on Aug. 24. (Mohammed Huwais/AFP/Getty Images)

Yemen’s Snake Charmer Is Dead
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TOPSHOT - EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content / Turkish anti riot police officers escort Turkish soldiers who allegedly took part in a military coup as they are leaving the courthouse at Bakirkoy district in Istanbul on July 16, 2016. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan battled to regain control over Turkey on July 16, 2016 after a coup that claimed more than 250 lives, bid by discontented soldiers, as signs grew that the most serious challenge to his 13 years of dominant rule was faltering. / AFP / OZAN KOSE (Photo credit should read OZAN KOSE/AFP/Getty Images)

Turkey’s Post-Coup Purge and Erdogan’s Private Army
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Meral Aksener, candidate for the leadership of the Turkish opposition party Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), delivers a speech during a "NO" campaign meeting on April 8, 2017, in Ankara, a week ahead of a constitutional referendum. On April 16, 2017, the Turkish public will vote on whether to change the current parliamentary system into an executive presidency. / AFP PHOTO / ADEM ALTAN (Photo credit should read ADEM ALTAN/AFP/Getty Images)

Can the ‘She-Wolf’ Who Rejected the Harem Take On Sultan Erdogan?
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Former French president and losing candidate of the right-wing Les Republicains party primaries ahead of the 2017 presidential election, Nicolas Sarkozy leaves his offices in a car on November 21, 2016 in Paris. Sarkozy's defeat at the hands of his former premier Fillon, a man he once nicknamed "Mr Nobody", marked what appeared to be an ignominious end to the ex-president's forty years in politics. / AFP / GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT (Photo credit should read GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT/AFP/Getty Images)

Can French Sanity Hold Out Against the Forces of the Far-Right?
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French President Francois Hollande leaves the stage after a speech as part of the ceremonies to mark the 70th anniversary of the Allied landing in Provence, on August 15, 2014 aboard the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier off the coast of Toulon, southern France. Two months after D-Day, the Allied invasion of southern France pushed the exhausted Nazi army back towards Germany and hastened the end of World War II in Europe. AFP PHOTO / ALAIN JOCARD -AFP PHOTO/ ALAIN JOCARD / AFP / ALAIN JOCARD (Photo credit should read ALAIN JOCARD/AFP/Getty Images)

France’s War Against the Islamic State Is Not in Syria
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