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Dec 17, 20242 min read
Family of US activist killed in West Bank says Blinken offers no prospect of US inquiry
WASHINGTON - The family of a Turkish-born American human rights activist killed by Israel in the occupied West Bank pleaded with...


Dec 17, 20242 min read
Trump says Turkey holds the key to Syria's future
PALM BEACH, Florida - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Monday that Turkey will "hold the key" to what happens in Syria, where...


Dec 17, 20244 min read
Explainer-What is the significance of the Golan Heights?
The Israeli government decided on Sunday to double its population on the occupied Golan Heights while saying threats from Syria remained...


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 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, 20241 min read
China, Egypt agree on need to promote peace in Middle East
BEIJING - China's foreign minister Wang Yi said Beijing agreed with Egypt that both nations should promote peace and negotiations to...


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...
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