western
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The name comes from the classic western movie featuring seven heroic gunfighters and their push to save a small town.
Turkey has offered military assistance to support the new government, which has won western backing.
Iran has maintained a tight grip over the internet for many years, with most western social media apps and platforms blocked, as well as external news websites like BBC News.
From BBC
Those threats have once again called into question the transatlantic alliance that has in many ways underpinned the western economic order celebrated at Davos.
From Barron's
In a statement to state-run news agency Sana, the Syrian army said its forces "began entering the western Euphrates area", and declared it had established "full military control" of Deir Hafer.
From BBC
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