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7/16/2025 10:23:00 PM
Israel's air strikes in the heart of the Syrian capital, Damascus, killing and wounding several people, sparked a wave of international condemnation, as world powers warned the attacks threaten regional stability.
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7/16/2025 5:14:26 PM
The Israeli army launched a new round of strikes near the Syrian army and defence ministry headquarters on Wednesday, state-run television said, after Israel warned Damascus against targeting the Druze community.
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7/16/2025 2:27:36 PM
Israel said Wednesday it had hit Syria's military headquarters, after vowing to step up strikes unless the government withdrew its forces from areas in Syria's south that recently saw deadly clashes between Druze and Bedouin tribes.
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7/16/2025 1:23:11 PM
Syria state media said that the Israeli military struck the Druze-majority city of Sweida, where Syrian government forces have deployed despite Israeli warnings.
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Foreign Affairs
7/16/2025 11:33:25 AM
Egypt condemned on Wednesday the repeated Israeli attacks on Lebanese and Syrian territories, describing them as a blatant violation of the sovereignty of the two Arab nations and a breach of international law and relevant United Nations resolutions.
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7/15/2025 11:07:18 PM
The mainly Druze residents of the Syrian city of Sweida had hoped the arrival of government forces on Tuesday would spell an end to deadly sectarian clashes with local Bedouin tribes.
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7/15/2025 10:25:56 PM
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7/15/2025 8:10:19 PM
The Syrian government deployed its forces in the Druze-majority city of Sweida, in a bid by the Islamist authorities to extend their power to the area controlled by local armed groups.
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7/15/2025 2:15:49 PM
Israel launched strikes Tuesday against Syrian government forces in the Druze-majority region of Sweida, saying it was acting to "protect the religious minority."
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7/15/2025 9:58:05 AM
Syrian government forces will enter the majority Druze city of Sweida, the interior ministry said on Tuesday, to bring an end to deadly clashes with Bedouin tribes.
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7/14/2025 9:43:33 PM
Syrian government forces were advancing towards the southern city of Sweida on Monday amid clashes in the region between Druze fighters and Bedouin tribes that have killed nearly 100 people, according to a war monitor.
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7/14/2025 9:15:15 PM
Syrian government forces were advancing toward the southern city of Sweida on Monday after taking control of a Druze village nearby, an AFP correspondent said, on the second day of secterian clashes there.
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7/14/2025 4:28:44 PM
Israel’s army said Monday it has struck military tanks in southern Syria as Syrian government forces and Bedouin tribes clashed with Druze militias there, as reported by AP.
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7/14/2025 1:51:47 PM
The Syrian Ministry of Defence announced Monday that it has begun deploying military units to the southern province of Sweida, following deadly clashes between Druze fighters and Bedouin tribes that left at least 37 people killed.
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7/14/2025 1:51:08 PM
After years in a Syrian detention camp, Ibrahim Darwish was relieved to be allowed to return home to Iraq, but his joy was quickly punctured by the harsh reality that he had to disown his sons accused of being jihadists.
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7/13/2025 7:39:07 PM
Clashes between Bedouin tribes and local fighters in the predominantly Druze city of Sweida in southern Syria have killed 24 people, a war monitor said Sunday, as authorities sent forces to de-escalate the situation.
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7/12/2025 10:11:32 PM
A Syrian and an Israeli official are expected to meet in Baku later Saturday on the sidelines of President Ahmed al-Sharaa's visit to Azerbaijan, a diplomatic source in Damascus with knowledge of the issue said.
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7/6/2025 6:35:20 PM
Syrian authorities said some 100 square kilometres (40 square miles) of forest had "turned to ash" in wildfires as firefighters from neighbouring Jordan arrived Sunday to battle a fourth day of blazes in the province of Latakia.
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World
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International
7/5/2025 8:56:19 PM
Germany is to start deporting Syrians with criminal records, the interior ministry said Saturday, days after Austria became the first EU country to do so in recent years.
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7/5/2025 7:09:27 PM
British Foreign Secretary David Lammy met Syria’s interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus on Saturday, announcing the restoration of full diplomatic relations in the first visit by a UK minister in more than a decade.
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