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1/4/2025 11:01:00 PM
On the slopes of Mount Qasyun which overlooks Damascus, a network of tunnels links a military complex, tasked with defending the Syrian capital, to the presidential palace facing it.
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World
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Region
1/1/2025 2:44:44 PM
Saudi Arabia on Wednesday launched a humanitarian air bridge to Syria, delivering food, shelter and medical supplies, the official Saudi Press Agency reported.
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World
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Region
1/1/2025 1:26:10 PM
Syria's transitional government minister of information told AFP he is working towards a free press and is committed to "freedom of expression" after decades of tight control under the country's former rulers.
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World
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Region
12/31/2024 4:04:48 PM
Syria's new authorities announced on Tuesday that the military chief of the rebel group that spearheaded the offensive that toppled longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad had been appointed defence minister in the transitional government.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
12/31/2024 12:52:48 PM
UN rights chief Volker Turk said Tuesday that hospitals in the Gaza Strip, targeted by Israel, had become a "death trap", insisting that such facilities must instead be protected during conflict.
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World
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Region
12/31/2024 9:23:01 AM
About half of school-age children in Syria are missing out on education after nearly 14 years of civil war, Save the Children said, calling for "immediate action".
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
12/31/2024 9:16:00 AM
Escalating geopolitical tensions and conflicts top the list of concerns for the world in 2025, with forecasts not offering a rosy prognosis for the global economy.
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World
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War in Ukraine
12/30/2024 11:37:30 AM
Russia is against the deployment of Western peacekeeping troops to Ukraine as part of any settlement to end the nearly three-year conflict, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said.
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World
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Region
12/28/2024 11:12:03 PM
Syria’s embassy in Lebanon suspended consular services Saturday, a day after two relatives of deposed Syrian President Bashar Assad were arrested at the Beirut airport with allegedly forged passports.
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World
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War in Ukraine
12/28/2024 6:50:48 PM
Five months after their shock offensive into Russia, Ukrainian troops are bloodied and demoralized by the rising risk of defeat in Kursk, a region some want to hold at all costs while others question the value of having gone in at all.
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World
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Region
12/25/2024 10:35:23 PM
Angry protests broke out Wednesday in the heartland of deposed Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad's Alawite minority, a war monitor and witnesses said, after a video circulated showing an attack on a shrine.
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World
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Region
12/25/2024 5:55:54 PM
A key Syrian rescue group and an activist told AFP on Wednesday a burial site outside Damascus was likely a mass grave for detainees held under former President Bashar al-Assad and fighters killed in the civil war.
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World
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International
12/25/2024 11:13:39 AM
Bethlehem marked another sombre Christmas Eve in the traditional birthplace of Jesus under the shadow of the Israeli war in Gaza.
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World
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Region
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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World
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Region
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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World
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Region
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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World
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Region
12/21/2024 8:22:58 PM
Cyprus stands ready to help eliminate Syria’s remaining chemical weapons stockpiles and to support a search for people whose fate remains unknown after more than a decade of war, the top Cypriot diplomat said Saturday.
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World
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Region
12/21/2024 6:33:37 PM
A lightning rebel offensive early this month caught Syria's ruling clan off guard.
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World
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Region
12/20/2024 7:38:54 PM
The UN expressed outrage Friday after three World Food Programme (WFP) staff were killed in an "aerial bombardment" in Sudan, but said it would keep working in the conflict-ravaged country.
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World
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War in Sudan
12/18/2024 9:38:32 PM
Ten Sudanese civilians were killed and 20 wounded in paramilitary shelling of North Darfur's besieged capital El-Fasher which hit the city's main hospital and other areas on Wednesday, activists said.
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