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6/8/2023 12:10:44 PM
Riyadh and Washington urged Western governments Thursday to repatriate citizens who joined the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, where thousands still languish in prisons or camps.
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World
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6/6/2023 4:12:52 PM
Former Lebanese President Michel Aoun is set to meet Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad in Damascus to discuss enhancing relations, marking his first visit in 14 years, Lebanese media reported.
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6/4/2023 6:06:48 PM
Syria's opposition urged on Sunday the resumption of moribund United Nations-sponsored talks with the government of President Bashar al-Assad, who has returned to the Arab fold after years of isolation.
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World
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6/4/2023 12:27:04 PM
Syria's foreign minister on Sunday discussed humanitarian aid and combating the illegal drugs trade with key ally Iraq during a visit to Baghdad as Damascus emerges from years of diplomatic isolation.
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6/4/2023 10:15:10 AM
Fifty Islamic State-group jihadists and 168 Iraqi members of jihadist families were repatriated from Syria to Iraq on Saturday, an Iraqi official said.
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World
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6/3/2023 7:14:06 PM
A son of Libya’s late leader Muammar Gaddafi, who has been held in Lebanon for more than seven years, began a hunger strike Saturday to protest his detention without trial, his lawyer said.
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World
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6/3/2023 6:15:53 PM
The European Union will hold the seventh edition of a conference on supporting the future of Syria and the Syrian people in Brussels on 15 June, an EU diplomatic service press release revealed.
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World
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5/31/2023 1:56:22 PM
Ryyan Alshebl fled war-torn Syria in 2015, arriving on the Greek island of Lesbos after a harrowing four-hour journey on a rubber boat.
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5/30/2023 10:26:16 PM
For the first time in Syria’s 12-year war, people in every district are experiencing some degree of “humanitarian stress,” and a staggering 15.3 million, nearly 70% of the population, need humanitarian aid, the United Nations said Tuesday.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
5/30/2023 8:22:54 PM
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Focus
5/30/2023 1:30:00 PM
The earthquakes that hit Turkey and Syria earlier this year drew renewed attention to the dangers they pose as well as whether they can be the result of human activities.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
5/30/2023 1:27:00 PM
Four international summit meetings took place in Asia last week, with each sending out important messages on a changing global order.
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World
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5/29/2023 8:52:22 PM
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan won reelection in a runoff Sunday, following a nail-biter first round two weeks earlier.
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5/29/2023 9:44:00 AM
Israeli air strikes targeted Syria’s capital city overnight Sunday, the Syrian defence ministry said, adding there were no casualties.
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World
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5/27/2023 3:39:01 PM
Iraq on Saturday presented an ambitious plan to turn itself into a regional transportation hub by developing its road and rail infrastructure, linking Europe with the Gulf and other Middle East countries.
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5/27/2023 3:30:18 PM
The United Nations announced Saturday that it will suspend a plan to begin making aid payments to Syrian refugees in crisis-wracked Lebanon in dollars, after pushback from Lebanese officials.
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Heritage
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Walks
5/26/2023 12:16:07 AM
In our series, we walk through one of Cairo's older districts and marvel at the 126-year-old enchanting palace which gave the neighbourhood its name.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
5/25/2023 7:32:20 PM
Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry reiterated to the United Nations special envoy to Syria, Geir Pedersen, during a meeting in Geneva on Thursday, the importance of the Arab role in resolving the prolonged Syrian crisis.
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World
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5/25/2023 6:51:34 PM
Turkey has launched the construction of nearly a quarter million housing units to resettle refugees in rebel-held northern Syria, Turkish media said, as repatriation efforts loom large in Turkey's presidential runoff.
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World
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5/25/2023 5:23:29 PM
One cold winter night, Syrian Ibrahim Othman went out to pray and came home cradling a baby girl, abandoned at the doorstep of the village mosque just hours after she was born.
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