Since capturing Damascus and coming to power, Al-Sharaa has tried to present himself as a more moderate figure [Aref Tammawi/AFP/Getty] Syria’s de-facto leader has praised Saudi Arabia on its economic vision and said he had ambitions to replicate such plans in his own war-torn country, as he addressed concerns over his transitional government and vowed […]
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The United States doubled the number of troops it has in Syria to around 2,000 earlier this year, the Pentagon said Thursday. Washington has for years said it has some 900 military personnel in Syria as part of international efforts against Islamist groups, which seized swathes of territory there and in neighbouring Iraq before being
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The US decided to scrap a $10 million reward for the capture of Syria’s new interim leader Ahmed Al-Sharaa and named a new Syria coordinator. The announcement followed a meeting in Damascus between U.S. diplomat for the Middle East, Barbara Leaf and the leader of Hayat al Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). During a press conference, she
The first thing I would do is to visit my demolished home, then to rush to my grandparents’ and uncles’ house to greet them and hug them after long months of separation, writes Huda Skaik. [GETTY] The ceasefire came into effect in Lebanon. The bombing stopped. The Lebanese breathed a sigh of relief. Yet, for
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Sweden will stop funding the United Nations refugee agency for Palestinians (UNRWA) and will instead increase its aid to Gaza via other groups, the Nordic country announced on Friday. Funding earmarked for Gaza will total 800 million kronor ($72 million) in 2025, but aid to UNRWA, which totalled 451 million kronor in 2024, will be
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The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said two journalists had been killed in Aleppo province by a ‘Turkish drone strike’ Two journalists from Turkey’s Kurdish-majority southeast have been killed, reportedly by a Turkish drone, while covering clashes between an Ankara-backed militia and US-backed Kurdish fighters in Syria, journalists’ groups said Friday. Nazim Dastan, 32,
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Putin commented on Syria during his end-of-year news conference on Thursday [Photo by Contributor/Getty Images] Russian President Vladimir Putin said that his country was not defeated in Syria in comments made at his annual end-of-year news conference on Thursday. Putin, who intervened in Syria in favour of the Assad regime in 2015, after it suffered military
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A dystopian South Asian sky reveals itself through satellite images as smog and seasonal air pollution engulf northern India (Delhi, NCR, Haryana, and Punjab) and southern Pakistan’s Punjab province. While pollution has always been a concern, air pollution in the Global South has become especially catastrophic in recent years, worsening during the winter months and
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What will a Syria free of Bashar al-Assad’s regime look like? [photo credit: Getty Images] Ahmed Al-Dalati has recently emerged as a key figure involved in the Syrian rebel alliance’s military operations that led to the fall of Bashar Al-Assad’s regime. Al-Dalati possesses in-depth knowledge of the battles between opposition factions and Assad’s forces and
The United States has for years carried out periodic strikes and raids to help prevent a resurgence of IS [GETTY] American forces killed an Islamic State (IS) group leader and another of the group’s members in a strike in Syria, the US military said on Friday. Washington has stepped up military action against the jihadist
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