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Middle East latest: Germany and France seek a ‘new beginning’ with Syria

The top diplomats from Germany and France were in Syria on Friday to send what the German minister called a clear signal that Europe and Syria can have a “political new beginning” after Islamist insurgents ousted Bashar Assad. In the Gaza Strip, Israeli strikes killed at least 42 people including children overnight and into Friday, hospital staff said, as often-stalled …

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1 week, 4 days ago

Middle East latest: Israel intercepts Houthi missile fired from Yemen

Hindustan Times

Israel’s military said it intercepted a missile fired toward the country by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, setting off sirens late Monday in central areas including Tel Aviv. Israeli military says it intercepted a missile fired from Yemen TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel’s military said it intercepted a missile fired toward the country by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, setting off sirens late Monday …

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1 week, 4 days ago

Middle East latest: Israel intercepts Houthi missile fired from Yemen

Associated Press

Israel’s military said it intercepted a missile fired toward the country by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, setting off sirens late Monday in central areas including Tel Aviv. Here’s the latest: UN gives updates on humanitarian situation in Gaza UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations humanitarian agency said Monday that Israel allowed a U.N. and Palestinian Red Crescent team to deliver medical …

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2 weeks ago

Middle East latest: Israeli soldiers burn a hospital in Gaza

Hindustan Times

Israeli soldiers stormed and burned a hospital in isolated northern Gaza after forcibly removing staff and patients on Friday, Health Ministry officials said. Middle East latest: Israeli soldiers burn a hospital in Gaza Gaza's Health Ministry said Israeli troops set fires in several parts of Kamal Adwan Hospital, including the lab and surgery department. Israeli troops burn a hospital in …

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2 weeks, 4 days ago

Middle East latest: Israeli raid and airstrikes in West Bank kill at least 8 Palestinians

Associated Press

At least eight people were killed by Israeli military operations in the northern West Bank around the city of Tulkarem on Tuesday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said, including three people it said were killed by Israeli airstrikes. Here’s the latest: Israeli raid and airstrikes kill at least 8 Palestinians in West Bank, health officials say NUR SHAMS REFUGEE CAMP, West …

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2 weeks, 5 days 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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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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3 weeks ago

Middle East latest: Israeli strike in Gaza kills at least 7 people, including 4 kids

Associated Press

An Israeli airstrike on a residential building in central Gaza killed at least seven Palestinians, including four children, and wounded 16 other people Friday afternoon, health officials said. Israeli strike on a Gaza apartment building kills at least 7 people, including 4 kids DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — An Israeli airstrike on a residential building in central Gaza killed at …

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3 weeks, 2 days ago

Middle East latest: Israeli strike on a Gaza school kills 17 people sheltering there

Associated Press

Israeli airstrikes slammed into two schools sheltering displaced Palestinians in Gaza City on Thursday, a Health Ministry official said, killing at least 17 people including five children in one of the schools. The resolution seeks the ICJ’s guidance on additional questions about its July ruling, including what Israel’s obligations are “to ensure and facilitate the unhindered provision of urgently needed …

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3 weeks, 4 days ago

Corpses, men who don’t know their names: Scenes from a Damascus hospital

Al Jazeera

At least 100,000 Syrians were disappeared by the Assad regime. “A person’s features change after he stays in prison for a long time.” What happens far too often, though, is that the family will later discover that the person they brought home is not their relative and they return them to the hospital so their actual families can find them. …

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3 weeks, 5 days 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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3 weeks, 6 days ago

UAE official says new Syria leaders' Islamist ties 'worrying'

Hindustan Times

A senior UAE official said on Saturday that his government had concerns about the Islamist affiliation of the forces that ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad. A Syrian fighter from rebel group, fires towards a poster at the entrance of the notorious security detention centre called Palestine Branch, which pictures the late Syrian President Hafez Assad and his son the ouster …

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3 weeks, 6 days ago

Putin's goons flee Syria: Russians begin to dismantle military outposts after fall of murderous despot Bashar al-Assad

Daily Mail

Russia has begun dismantling its military outposts in Syria amid uncertainty about its future in the region following Bashar al-Assad's abrupt fall last weekend. An An-124 heavy transport aircraft with its nose cone lifted, at Russian Khmeimim airbase, near Latakia, Syria, December 13 A satellite image shows an overview of Russian naval base in Tartus, Syria, December 13 Russian President …

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4 weeks ago

Thousands take to the streets around Syria to celebrate end of Assad regime: ‘It’s like a dream’

The Independent

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4 weeks, 2 days ago

Fall of Damascus may not be good news for Syria, West Asia and also India

Firstpost

While the prevailing mood may be celebratory, unfortunately the deserts are full of mirages, and the world cannot afford to add Syria as another foothold for extremist, jihadi outfits After a decade of warfare, the conflict in Syria had settled into a violent, protracted stalemate. The astonishing sequence of events that allowed HTS to bring down the Syrian regime had …

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4 weeks, 2 days ago

New Syria PM says will guarantee all religious groups' rights

Deccan Chronicle

Damascus: Syria's new prime minister said the Islamist-led alliance that ousted president Bashar al-Assad will guarantee minority rights, in an interview published on Wednesday, also calling on the millions who fled the war to return home. In Aleppo, Syria's second city and the first major one captured by the rebels in their offensive, shopkeeper Ramadan Dali, 70, said that "we …

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4 weeks, 2 days ago

Amid the joy after Assad’s ouster, Syrians search for their missing

LA Times

11 was relatively pristine, with few signs of abuse save for a rictus of pained surprise. “Why did they take him?” For many, the journey into Assad’s gulags began in detention facilities attached to military intelligence branches; many of their headquarters are within the so-called Security Quarter of Damascus’ Kafr Sousa neighborhood, each equipped with prison cells and interrogation chambers. …

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4 weeks, 2 days ago

Will guarantee rights of all religious groups: New Syria PM Mohammad al-Bashir

India Today

Syria's new Prime Minister said the Islamist-led alliance that ousted president Bashar al-Assad will guarantee minority rights, in an interview published on Wednesday, also calling on the millions who fled the war to return home. In Aleppo, Syria's second city and the first major one captured by the rebels in their offensive, shopkeeper Ramadan Dali, 70, said that "we are …

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4 weeks, 2 days ago

Analysis: Assad exhibited little of the tackiness of Iraq’s Saddam. But his rule was just as brutal

CNN

CNN — Slender shoulders, a limp handshake and soft-spoken lisp. In response to questions about Syria’s lack of press freedoms and system of one-party rule, he engaged in classic “whataboutism.” He exhibited absolutely no responsibility nor remorse about Syrian human rights violations, instead deflecting and highlighting examples of US abuses in Iraq. Meanwhile Syria’s closest allies were also Iran - …

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4 weeks, 2 days ago

Analysis: Assad exhibited little of the tackiness of Iraq’s Saddam. But his rule was just as brutal

CNN

CNN — Slender shoulders, a limp handshake and soft-spoken lisp. In response to questions about Syria’s lack of press freedoms and system of one-party rule, he engaged in classic “whataboutism.” He exhibited absolutely no responsibility nor remorse about Syrian human rights violations, instead deflecting and highlighting examples of US abuses in Iraq. Meanwhile Syria’s closest allies were also Iran - …

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1 month ago

Clues to Luigi Mangione's ideology. And, courts halt Kroger and Albertsons megamerger

NPR

Clues to Luigi Mangione's ideology. toggle caption Hussein Malla/AP 🎧 "What is quite extraordinary is they seem to now be handling a relatively managed handover of power," NPR's Ruth Sherlock tells Up First. Sponsor Message Investigators and some extremism researchers are looking into whether there's evidence of a clear ideology behind the UnitedHealthcare CEO's killing after details about suspect Luigi …

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1 month ago

Desperate relatives of Syrian prisoners detained in hell-hole prison scour 'human slaughterhouse' near Damascus for signs of life

Daily Mail

Five years after his uncle was snatched by Syrian regime henchmen and thrown in the notorious Saydnaya prison, last week's lightening offensive finally gave Firas Kaid hope. The Damascus Countryside Governorate has had to go on social media to ask people to provide the codes to electronic underground doors to free the ‘more than 100,000 detainees who can be seen …

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1 month ago

What's next for Syria after Assad's fall?

Deccan Chronicle

Beirut: The fall of Assad has put Syria at a crossroads, after nearly 14 years of civil war sparked by his deadly crackdown on democracy protests. While HTS's so-called Salvation Government has long controlled the Idlib region in northwest Syria, two border strips held by Turkish-backed factions have their own self-styled Syrian Interim Government. "Assad's fall provides an enormous opportunity …

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1 month ago

Syria War Updates: Israel denies sending tanks to Damascus; HTS vows justice for Assad’s war crimes – Firstpost

Firstpost

Syria War News Updates: The Israeli military on Tuesday denied reports that its tanks were advancing towards Damascus, insisting that Israeli forces were stationed in a buffer zone near the Israeli-Syrian border Syrian citizens wave the revolutionary flag and shout slogans, as they celebrate during the second day of the take over of the city by the insurgents in Damascus, …

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Middle East latest: Germany and France seek a ‘new beginning’ with Syria

Middle East latest: Israel intercepts Houthi missile fired from Yemen

Middle East latest: Israel intercepts Houthi missile fired from Yemen

Middle East latest: Israeli soldiers burn a hospital in Gaza

Middle East latest: Israeli raid and airstrikes in West Bank kill at least 8 Palestinians

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

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

Middle East latest: Israeli strike in Gaza kills at least 7 people, including 4 kids

Middle East latest: Israeli strike on a Gaza school kills 17 people sheltering there

Corpses, men who don’t know their names: Scenes from a Damascus hospital

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

UAE official says new Syria leaders' Islamist ties 'worrying'

Putin's goons flee Syria: Russians begin to dismantle military outposts after fall of murderous despot Bashar al-Assad

Thousands take to the streets around Syria to celebrate end of Assad regime: ‘It’s like a dream’

Fall of Damascus may not be good news for Syria, West Asia and also India

New Syria PM says will guarantee all religious groups' rights

Amid the joy after Assad’s ouster, Syrians search for their missing

Will guarantee rights of all religious groups: New Syria PM Mohammad al-Bashir

Analysis: Assad exhibited little of the tackiness of Iraq’s Saddam. But his rule was just as brutal

Analysis: Assad exhibited little of the tackiness of Iraq’s Saddam. But his rule was just as brutal

Clues to Luigi Mangione's ideology. And, courts halt Kroger and Albertsons megamerger

Desperate relatives of Syrian prisoners detained in hell-hole prison scour 'human slaughterhouse' near Damascus for signs of life

What's next for Syria after Assad's fall?

Syria War Updates: Israel denies sending tanks to Damascus; HTS vows justice for Assad’s war crimes – Firstpost