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Syria's new leader says all weapons to come under 'state control'
3 hours, 8 minutes ago

Syria's new leader says all weapons to come under 'state control'

Raw Story  

by Maher Al Mounes with Lisa Golden Two weeks after seizing power in a sweeping offensive, Syria's new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa on Sunday said weapons in the country, including those held by Kurdish-led forces, would come under state control. Sharaa spoke alongside Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, after earlier meeting with Lebanese Druze leaders and vowing to end "negative interference" …

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Former Israeli spy agents describe attack using exploding electronic devices against Hezbollah
11 hours, 2 minutes ago

Former Israeli spy agents describe attack using exploding electronic devices against Hezbollah

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Two recently retired senior Israeli intelligence agents shared new details about a deadly clandestine operation years in the making that targeted Hezbollah militants in Lebanon and Syria using exploding pagers and walkie talkies three months ago. One agent said the operation started 10 years ago using walkie-talkies laden with hidden explosives, which Hezbollah didn’t realize it was buying …

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Ex-Mossad agents reveal details of plan used to target Hezbollah through pagers
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14 hours, 50 minutes ago

Ex-Mossad agents reveal details of plan used to target Hezbollah through pagers

India Today  

Two recently retired senior Israeli intelligence agents shared new details about a deadly clandestine operation years in the making that targeted Hezbollah militants in Lebanon and Syria using exploding pagers and walkie talkies three months ago. One agent said the operation started 10 years ago using walkie-talkies laden with hidden explosives, which Hezbollah didn't realize it was buying from Israel, …

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Prominent Lebanese figure meets Syrian insurgent who led Assad’s ouster, seeking better relations
1 day, 3 hours ago

Prominent Lebanese figure meets Syrian insurgent who led Assad’s ouster, seeking better relations

Associated Press  

BEIRUT — A prominent Lebanese politician held talks on Sunday with the insurgent who led the overthrow of Syria’s President Bashar Assad, with both expressing hope for a new era in relations between their countries. He expressed hope that Lebanese-Syrian relations “will return to normal.” Jumblatt’s father, Kamal, was killed in 1977 in an ambush near a Syrian roadblock during …

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Turkiye FM meets Syria’s new leader, calls for lifting of global sanctions
1 day, 14 hours ago

Turkiye FM meets Syria’s new leader, calls for lifting of global sanctions

Al Jazeera  

Meeting comes two days after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his minister will visit Damascus to discuss the new structure in Syria. Photographs and footage shared by the Turkish ministry showed Fidan and al-Sharaa hug and shake hands, their meeting coming two days after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Fidan would be going to Damascus to discuss the …

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Prominent Lebanese figure meets Syrian insurgent who led Assad’s ouster, seeking better relations
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1 day, 14 hours ago

Prominent Lebanese figure meets Syrian insurgent who led Assad’s ouster, seeking better relations

LA Times  

Women look at photos of people reported to be missing, in the Marjeh square in Damascus, Syria. A prominent Lebanese politician held talks on Sunday with the insurgent who led the overthrow of Syria’s President Bashar Assad, with both expressing hope for a new era in relations between their countries. He expressed hope that Lebanese-Syrian relations “will return to normal.” …

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The Iran-led axis of resistance in the aftermath of Syria’s upheaval
2 days, 14 hours ago

The Iran-led axis of resistance in the aftermath of Syria’s upheaval

Al Jazeera  

Iran’s leader has emphasised that resistance cannot be broken through military strikes and political plots. Tehran, Iran – For decades, authorities in Iran have been meticulously building an “axis of resistance” of like-minded factions to oppose Israel and the United States across the region. Amid claims that the axis has collapsed, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei asserted last week …

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Two AP journalists in Ukraine and the Mideast break down the wars they covered in 2024
3 days, 1 hour ago

Two AP journalists in Ukraine and the Mideast break down the wars they covered in 2024

Associated Press  

For the world, 2024 was riven by — and in some ways defined by — conflict on two fronts. The ripples after the previous year’s Hamas attacks in Israel left Gaza a shambles and tens of thousands dead, and an adjacent conflict between Israel and Hezbollah is playing out across the Lebanon landscape as the year ends. They said, “Oh, …

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Blinken says Iran had bad year, but nuclear negotiations possible
4 days, 14 hours ago

Blinken says Iran had bad year, but nuclear negotiations possible

Al Jazeera  

Top US diplomat says Iran should ‘focus on itself’ and stop getting involved in ‘misadventures throughout the region’. Speaking at the Council on Foreign Relations on Wednesday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Israel has succeeded in damaging Tehran’s allies, Hezbollah and Hamas, as well as Iran’s own military capabilities in a direct strike in October. “There’s no doubt …

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What Assad’s fall has revealed about Syria’s trade in the stimulant drug Captagon
4 days, 23 hours ago

What Assad’s fall has revealed about Syria’s trade in the stimulant drug Captagon

Associated Press  

BEIRUT — Since the fall of former Syrian President Bashar Assad, industrial-scale manufacturing facilities of the amphetamine-like stimulant Captagon have been uncovered around the country, which experts say fed a $10 billion annual global trade in the highly addictive drug. The Captagon trade began industrializing around 2018-2019 as the Assad regime — and other armed groups in Syria -- invested …

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Israel’s borders have shifted throughout its history. Action in Syria may reshape them again
5 days, 9 hours ago

Israel’s borders have shifted throughout its history. Action in Syria may reshape them again

Associated Press  

JERUSALEM — Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, entered Syrian territory Tuesday and said Israeli troops would remain in the area indefinitely, blurring the border with its northern neighbor. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print Israel quickly annexed east Jerusalem – home to the city’s most sensitive Jewish, Muslim and Christian holy sites as …

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Switzerland bans Lebanon’s Hezbollah, a week after it proscribed Palestinian group Hamas
6 days, 2 hours ago

Switzerland bans Lebanon’s Hezbollah, a week after it proscribed Palestinian group Hamas

Firstpost  

Switzerland generally maintains neutrality and has previously not subscribed to the stance that the two groups are terrorist groups. But that view shifted last year after Hamas launched its large-scale attack against Israel on October 7 Switzerland’s parliament on Tuesday approved a proposal seeking the ban of Lebanese terror group Hezbollah on the grounds of it being a paramilitary terrorist …

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Year in Review: Top Photos from the Middle East in 2024
6 days, 3 hours ago

Year in Review: Top Photos from the Middle East in 2024

India TV News  

Image Source : AP 1/12 Palestinian girls struggle to reach for food at a distribution center in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip Friday, Dec. 6, 2024 Image Source : AP 2/12 Family and supporters of hostages held in the Gaza Strip scream and hold up their hands, painted red to symbolize blood, to call for the captives' release and to mark …

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Assad’s fall upends the Middle East’s largest drug empire
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6 days, 9 hours ago

Assad’s fall upends the Middle East’s largest drug empire

Live Mint  

The fall of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad overturned the most profitable drug-smuggling network in the Middle East, exposing the former regime’s role in manufacturing and trafficking pills that fueled war and social crises across the region. Captagon, a methamphetamine-like drug that has been produced for years in Syrian labs, helped the Assad regime amass huge wealth and offset the impact of …

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Lebanon’s political families: The Gemayel dynasty
6 days, 14 hours ago

Lebanon’s political families: The Gemayel dynasty

Al Jazeera  

This film takes us inside another of the most prominent and influential political dynasties in Lebanon in recent history. Lebanon’s complex politics have often been controlled by the country’s leading families, divided along sectarian lines. The Gemayel family has dominated Lebanon’s Maronite Christian population for generations. Their leaders have faced political infighting, involvement in the country’s civil war, negotiated a …

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Syria’s new rulers must not repeat the past mistakes of Lebanon and Iraq
1 week ago

Syria’s new rulers must not repeat the past mistakes of Lebanon and Iraq

Al Jazeera  

In these first days of what is being hailed as a “new era” in Syria, the authorities now controlling Damascus are sending mixed signals. The path they eventually choose to follow will determine whether the mistakes and miscalculations that devastated not only al-Assad’s Syria but also Iraq and Lebanon will be repeated here in this “new era”. This appointment, made …

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How re-building of Syria will be a herculean task for new regime
1 week, 1 day ago

How re-building of Syria will be a herculean task for new regime

Firstpost  

The reconstruction of the nation and its major pillars, like armed forces, police, and judiciary; revitalising the economy; addressing the political vacuum; and ushering in an all-representative democratic government are the major challenges to be addressed by the new interim government A man carrying a child reacts, as people attend the first Friday prayers inside the Umayyad Mosque, after fighters …

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Top photos of 2024: Drought in Amazon River to Donald Trump’s assassination attempt
1 week, 1 day ago

Top photos of 2024: Drought in Amazon River to Donald Trump’s assassination attempt

Live Mint  

2024 has been a year of significant global events captured through powerful imagery. From India's general elections to the devastating drought in the Amazon and the shocking assassination attempt on Donald Trump, these pivotal moments reflect the complexities of our world. India's General Elections 2024 Monuwara Begum and another woman return from a polling station across the Brahmaputra river on …

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6 more Indians evacuated from Syria arrives at Delhi airport
1 week, 1 day ago

6 more Indians evacuated from Syria arrives at Delhi airport

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: Six more Indian nationals evacuated from war-torn Syria arrived at the Delhi airport on Saturday. Indian nationals who returned to India shared their experience of staying in Syria over the past few days and how the embassy helped them return to India. Chetan Lal, who was among those who returned from Syria said that the embassy provided him …

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Lost Syrian weapons supply route after fall of Bashar al-Assad regime: Hezbollah chief
1 week, 1 day ago

Lost Syrian weapons supply route after fall of Bashar al-Assad regime: Hezbollah chief

Firstpost  

Hezbollah had long relied on Syria to transport weapons and military equipment from Iran, through Iraq and Syria, into Lebanon. However, the collapse of Assad’s government has disrupted that route Hezbollah leader Sheikh Naim Qassem acknowledged the setback the group suffered due to the fall of the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria. File Photo/Reuters Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem …

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‘Govt has done very well’: Indians evacuated from Syria reach Delhi
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1 week, 2 days ago

‘Govt has done very well’: Indians evacuated from Syria reach Delhi

Hindustan Times  

Indian nationals evacuated from war-torn Syria reached Delhi airport on Saturday. Recounting how embassy helped him, an Indian national said, "I had been there in Syria for about six months and the situation was normal there. Praising government's efforts for evacuating them from Syria, he said, "After that, the embassy team brought two of us to the Lebanon border, then …

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After 32 years and 5 days, a father and son reunite after Syrian prisoners are freed
1 week, 2 days ago

After 32 years and 5 days, a father and son reunite after Syrian prisoners are freed

NPR  

After 32 years and 5 days, a father and son reunite after Syrian prisoners are freed toggle caption Emily Feng/NPR CHEKKA, Lebanon — Up until Dec. 8, Suleil Hamawi thought the decades of torture and solitary confinement he already endured in Syria might last the rest of the life. Syrian troops were long into an occupation of Lebanon that had …

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Who was in ousted Syrian President Assad's inner circle and where are they now?
1 week, 2 days ago

Who was in ousted Syrian President Assad's inner circle and where are they now?

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy After insurgents toppled Syrian President …

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Who was in ousted Syrian President Assad’s inner circle and where are they now?
1 week, 2 days ago

Who was in ousted Syrian President Assad’s inner circle and where are they now?

Associated Press  

BEIRUT — After insurgents toppled Syrian President Bashar Assad this month, many senior officials and members of his dreaded intelligence and security services appear to have melted away. Gen. Suheil al-Hassan Al-Hassan was the commander of the 25th Special Missions Forces Division and later became the head of the Syrian Special Forces, which were key to many of the government’s …

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