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12/23/2024 11:28:53 AM
Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi met with Syria's new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus on Monday, Amman said. This was the latest high-profile visit since Bashar al-Assad's ouster, while Iran said it had "no direct contact" with Syria's new rulers.
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12/22/2024 10:20:34 PM
The visiting head of a UN investigative body for Syria said Sunday it was possible to find "more than enough" evidence to convict people of crimes against international law, but there was an immediate need to secure and preserve it.
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12/21/2024 10:15:57 PM
At a Damascus intersection, young volunteers act as unofficial traffic cops after police assigned to the duty deserted their posts when President Bashar al-Assad fell to a rapid rebel advance.
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12/21/2024 9:02:40 PM
In the towns and villages of southern Syria that Israel has occupied since the overthrow of longtime strongman Bashar al-Assad, soldiers and residents size each other up from a distance.
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12/20/2024 5:30:39 PM
The fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria has opened a new front for geopolitical competition in the Middle East.
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12/19/2024 10:13:19 PM
Libyan Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah expressed concerns Thursday that the North African country could become a "battlefield", following reports of Russian weapon transfers from Syria after Bashar al-Assad's fall.
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12/19/2024 6:50:23 PM
Hundreds of Syrians protested Thursday in central Damascus calling for democracy and women's rights, more than a week after an Islamist-led insurgent alliance ousted president Bashar al-Assad, AFP correspondents said.
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12/19/2024 3:20:10 PM
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that the fall of ex-Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad was not a "defeat" for Russia, claiming Moscow had achieved its goals in the country.
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12/19/2024 2:37:58 PM
Iraq said it would begin repatriating on Thursday Syrian troops who fled a lightning offensive that precipitated the ouster of president Bashar al-Assad.
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12/18/2024 3:33:05 PM
United Nations special envoy Geir Pedersen called Wednesday for "free and fair elections" in Syria and urged humanitarian assistance to the war-torn country after Bashar al-Assad's ouster this month.
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12/18/2024 1:43:11 PM
The first flight since the ouster of Syria's president Bashar al-Assad took off on Wednesday from Damascus airport to Aleppo in the country's north, AFP journalists saw.
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12/18/2024 10:32:00 AM
The UN Security Council called for an "inclusive and Syrian-led" political process to be implemented after Bashar al-Assad's ouster, saying the country's people must be allowed to determine their future.
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12/17/2024 11:04:00 PM
European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen said Tuesday that Brussels would intensify its "direct engagement" with Syria's new Islamist-led rulers after the overthrow of Bashar Al-Assad.
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12/17/2024 9:46:02 PM
International Organization for Migration (IOM) chief Amy Pope said Tuesday the UN agency was not advising the large-scale return of refugees to Syria before the situation stabilized after the ouster of Bashar al-Assad.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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12/17/2024 9:45:47 PM
This may be true, but the fact that Western media outlets ignored the dangers ahead, the link with Al-Qaeda, and the Islamist links, together with the Israeli air strikes on Syria, and cheered the incoming faction as though it was made up of heroes was mystifying and suspicious.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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12/17/2024 8:25:50 PM
The fall of the Bashar Al-Assad regime presents Russia with a complex dilemma regarding the fate of its bases in Latakia and Tartus
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12/17/2024 6:19:34 PM
Syria's "conflict has not ended yet," even after the departure of former president Bashar al-Assad, the UN's envoy to the country warned Tuesday, highlighting clashes between Turkish-backed and Kurdish groups in the north.
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12/17/2024 4:43:01 PM
European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen said Tuesday Brussels would intensify its "direct engagement" with Syria's new rebel rulers after the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad.
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12/17/2024 12:56:39 PM
President-elect Donald Trump characterized the rebel ouster of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad as an "unfriendly takeover" by US ally Turkey as he addressed the conflict at a news conference on Monday.
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12/17/2024 11:04:53 AM
Syria's militant factions will be "disbanded," the head of the group that led the ouster of Bashar al-Assad has pledged, as the former president denounced the country's new rulers as "terrorists".
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