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World
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Region
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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World
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Region
12/18/2024 12:50:41 PM
The head of the U.N. migration agency said she was reassured by commitments she heard from Syria’s new caretaker government in meetings in Damascus, as the country seeks to rebuild after more than a half-century of rule under the Assad family.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
12/18/2024 12:48:52 PM
As the Israeli war on Gaza rages, Syria's government transforms, and the Israeli-occupied West Bank seethes, Armenian residents of the Old City of Jerusalem fight a different battle — one that is quieter, they say, but no less existential.
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World
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Region
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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World
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Region
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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World
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Region
12/17/2024 10:48:07 PM
The leader of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces on Tuesday proposed a "demilitarized zone" in the northern town of Kobane as fighting with Turkish-backed groups grips northern Syria.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
12/17/2024 9:49:27 PM
Just as every beginning has an end, in Syria the ends return to the beginning: the nation state.
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World
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Region
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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Opinion
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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Opinion
12/17/2024 9:42:46 PM
The swift Western shift to rebrand the new rulers of Damascus as moderate and democratic represents a moral failure, evident in the continued silence on the atrocities being carried out by Israel in Gaza.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
12/17/2024 9:39:41 PM
However, like for any other ideology, it cannot be argued that the Baath ideology is now “dead” or will disappear from the Arab ideological and political scene. History has taught us that ideologies never die.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
12/17/2024 9:36:53 PM
Great-power politics in a post-Al-Assad Syria will be defined by who recognises the moment’s opportunities first. For the US, that means lifting sanctions on Al-Golani, halting the airstrikes, and seizing the chance to shape a more stable, less polarised Middle East.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
12/17/2024 9:29:47 PM
It would be prudent not to make predictions about the political future of Syria. Before former president Hafez Al-Assad seized power there in 1971, Syria had witnessed several coups d’etat. The Arab countries have not forgotten them.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
12/17/2024 9:01:33 PM
Bilateral ties and international political developments topped the discussions between the Egyptian and Chinese foreign ministers in Beijing this week
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
12/17/2024 8:58:11 PM
President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi briefed the Armed Forces, police, provincial governors, and media officials on Egypt’s national security and foreign policies this week
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
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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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
12/17/2024 8:22:10 PM
Reassuring messages from the new authorities in Syria have not allayed fears of partitionist agendas that could leave the country divided into three or more statelets
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
12/17/2024 8:20:22 PM
The fall of the Al-Assad regime in Syria has allowed the Israeli military to take out the vast majority of Syria’s air defences, giving it the opportunity to conduct further strikes against Iran
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
12/17/2024 8:17:55 PM
Emphasising inclusive civil rule and territorial integrity, Arabs differ in their warmth towards the new ruling factions in Syria
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
12/17/2024 7:54:13 PM
Events in Syria have been creating shockwaves in neighbouring Iraq, which itself may be at a dangerous crossroads
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