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MAG’s Technical Field Manager points out an area along the Lebanon-Syria border where local farmers are now able to grow cherries after the area was cleared of landmines and IEDs left by extremists. (State Department photo)

U.S. Department of State

The Lessons of 1989: Freedom and Our Future