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Dec 17, 20243 min read
Olympics-Prince Feisal champions member input in IOC presidential bid
LONDON - The promise of a more democratic International Olympic Committee with greater input from members is key to Prince Feisal Al...
Dec 17, 20241 min read
UN Syria envoy says UN plans to offer all kinds of help to Syrian people
DUBAI- The United Nations intends to offer all kinds of help to the Syrian people, UN Syria envoy Geir Pedersen told Syrian rebel leader...
Dec 17, 20242 min read
Trump and Netanyahu discuss Gaza hostages and Syria, Israeli PM says
JERUSALEM/WEST PALM BEACH, Florida - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump about...
Dec 17, 20242 min read
Defence minister orders Israeli troops to prepare to spend winter on Mount Hermon
JERUSALEM - Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has ordered Israeli troops to prepare to stay over the winter on Mount Hermon, a...
Dec 15, 20242 min read
At least 22 killed in Israeli Gaza strikes, Palestinian medics say
CAIRO - At least 22 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza on Saturday, medics said, while the Israeli military said it...
Dec 15, 20243 min read
Exclusive-Russia pulling back but not out of Syria, sources say
TARTOUS, Syria - Russia is pulling back its military from the front lines in northern Syria and from posts in the Alawite Mountains but...
Dec 13, 20242 min read
Blinken says US working to bring Travis Timmerman home from Syria
AQABA, Jordan - The United States is working to bring home an American citizen found on Thursday in Syria, U.S. Secretary of State Antony...
Dec 13, 20242 min read
Israeli strike on Gaza post office kills 30 Palestinians
CAIRO -An Israeli strike on a post office sheltering Gaza residents killed at least 30 Palestinians and wounded 50, medics said, and the...
Dec 13, 20242 min read
Russia in contact with Syrian rebels, hopes to keep military bases, Interfax reports
MOSCOW - Russia has established direct contact with the political committee of Syria's Islamist rebel group, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the...
Dec 13, 20243 min read
Their labour in demand, Germany's Syrians are in no rush to leave
BERLIN - It took only a few hours after the fall of Bashar al-Assad for some German politicians to begin suggesting it was time for...
Dec 13, 20242 min read
US grand jury charges former Syrian prison official with torture
WASHINGTON - A federal grand jury in Los Angeles charged a former Syrian government official who headed the Damascus Central Prison from...
Dec 13, 20248 min read
Demoralised and abandoned by allies: why Assad’s army failed to fight in Syria
DAMASCUS/AMMAN/BAGHDAD - Twenty-three-year-old Syrian military conscript Farhan al-Khouli was badly paid and demoralized. His army...
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