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1/11/2025 5:15:44 PM
Intelligence officials in Syria's new de facto government thwarted a plan by the Islamic State group to set off a bomb at a Shia shrine in the Damascus suburb of Sayyida Zeinab, state media reported Saturday.
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Region
1/6/2025 7:32:00 PM
A main road in the provincial capital of Quneitra in southern Syria was blocked with mounds of dirt, fallen palm trees and a metal pole that appeared to have once been a traffic light. On the other side of the barriers, an Israeli tank could be seen manoeuvring in the middle of the street.
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Region
1/6/2025 11:53:41 AM
Syria's new foreign minister Asaad al-Shaibani landed in the United Arab Emirates Monday on his first visit to the country since rebels toppled President Bashar al-Assad last month, official news agency SANA said.
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World
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War in Sudan
1/5/2025 3:06:58 PM
Sudan's army chief has welcomed a Turkish offer to resolve the brutal 20-month conflict between his forces and their paramilitary rivals, the Sudanese foreign minister said.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
1/4/2025 11:48:00 PM
With the multiple conflicts in the region remaining unresolved, the Middle East is heading towards another year of immense uncertainty.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Culture
1/4/2025 11:38:00 PM
Political conflicts have long been used as reliable source material for filmmakers.
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World
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Region
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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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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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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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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