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Hezbollah must focus on Lebanon not wider region, senior politician Bassil says
PARIS - Iran-backed Hezbollah needs to focus on domestic issues in Lebanon and not the wider region, senior Lebanese Maronite politician...
Dec 10, 20242 min read
Israeli denies its forces have gone past Syria buffer zone
DAMASCUS - Israel denied on Tuesday that its forces had penetrated into Syrian territory beyond the buffer zone with the Israeli-occupied...
Dec 10, 20242 min read
Austria to support Syrians wanting to return after Assad's fall, Nehammer says
BERLIN - Austria will support Syrians who want to return now that rebels have seized Damascus and President Bashar al-Assad has fled,...
Dec 10, 20241 min read
European countries put Syrian asylum bids on hold after Assad's fall
BERLIN - European countries put asylum applications from Syrians on hold until further notice on Monday after rebels seized the Syrian...
Dec 10, 20243 min read
Assad's fall in Syria exposes limits of China's Middle East diplomacy
BEIJING/HONG KONG - Just over a year ago, China gave Bashar al-Assad and his wife a warm welcome during their six-day visit to the...
Dec 10, 20243 min read
Hungary's Viktor Orban meets Trump, Musk at Mar-a-Lago
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban met with Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk at the U.S. president-elect's Mar-a-Lago home in...
Dec 10, 20241 min read
Israel says it will destroy Syria's heavy strategic weaponry
JERUSALEM - Israel will step up airstrikes on Syrian stores of advanced weaponry, Israeli officials said on Monday, and keep a "limited"...
Dec 10, 20242 min read
Israeli strike targets air defence installation near Syria's Mediterranean Latakia port
CAIRO - An Israeli strike targeted an air defence installation near Syria's Mediterranean Latakia port, Syrian security sources said on...
Dec 10, 20241 min read
DOJ v. DEI: Trump's Justice Department likely to target diversity programs
WASHINGTON - President-elect Donald Trump is set to challenge policies aimed at boosting diversity at companies and universities when he...
Dec 10, 20244 min read
Exclusive-Qatar opens contacts with Syria's HTS group, source says
DOHA - Qatari diplomats spoke with Syria's leading rebel faction, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, on Monday, an official briefed on the...
Dec 10, 20243 min read
Exclusive-Iran in direct contact with groups in new Syrian leadership, Iranian official says
DUBAI -Iran has opened a direct line of communication with rebels in Syria's new leadership since its ally Bashar al-Assad was ousted, a...
Dec 9, 20241 min read
With Assad ousted, a new era starts in Syria as the world watches
DAMASCUS - Syrians awakened on Monday to a hopeful if uncertain future, after rebels seized the capital Damascus and President Bashar...
Dec 9, 20244 min read
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