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Daily Briefing US, Russia spar over terms to restore Syria cease-fire LAURA ROZEN for Al-Monitor Diplomats held a contentious meeting to try to agree on bold measures to try to salvage a US-Russia ceasefire deal in Syria after it collapsed, but failed to reach agreement. How this 14-year-old Syrian refugee is fighting to end child marriage  BRENDA STOTER FOR AL-MONITOR Egyptians ponder: How much military control is too much?  GEORGE MIKHAIL FOR AL-MONITOR Why are young Iranian couples not getting pregnant? NARGES BAJOGHLI FOR AL-MONITOR Environment official says Iran looking for more international cooperation  BARBARA SLAVIN FOR AL-MONITOR Abadi orders weapons caches out of Baghdad in wake of deadly blast  SARAH AL-QAHER FOR AL-MONITOR Decline of higher education in Iraq continues  ADNAN ABU ZEED FOR AL-MONITOR Why Iraq's Yazidis are upset over new film depicting IS massacres  SAAD SALLOUM FOR AL-MONITOR Will 1967 Palestinian refugees ever return?  AKIVA ELDAR FOR AL-MONITOR Israeli right no longer bothered by Obama  MAZAL MUALEM FOR AL-MONITOR Palestinian election delay leaves $8 million in limbo  ADNAN ABU AMER FOR AL-MONITOR ‘New Turkey’ finds founding myth in the failed coup  MUSTAFA AKYOL FOR AL-MONITOR Are Ankara, Washington on collision course in Syria? CENGIZ ÇANDAR FOR AL-MONITOR VIEW SLIDESHOW> Egypt Gulf Iran Iraq Israel Lebanon Palestine Syria Turkey Congress Russia / MidEast