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Syria: Al-Joulani Announces Elections in Four Years

This is Beirut, 2024-12-29 16:40 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

The new leader of Syria, Ahmad al-Sharaa, also known as Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, announced in an exclusive interview with Al-Arabiya on Sunday that organizing elections in Syria could take up to four years, as it would require a complete population census. He also stated that drafting a new constitution could take three years. Rejecting criticism ...

Nearly 300 Arrested in Syria Crackdown on Assad Loyalists

This is Beirut, 2024-12-29 12:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Syria's new authorities have arrested nearly 300 people, including informants, pro-regime fighters and former soldiers, in a crackdown on loyalists to ousted former president Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) war monitor said Sunday. Since rebels led by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group toppled Assad ...

Turkey's Top Diplomat Tells Blinken Kurdish Fighters 'Cannot Be Allowed' in Syria

This is Beirut, 2024-12-28 17:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Turkey's top diplomat on Saturday said Syrian Kurdish fighters essential for the United States in the fight against Islamic State (IS) extremists cannot be sheltered in Syria, in a phone call with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan told Blinken that "the PKK/YPG terrorist organization cannot be allowed to take ...

Turkey's Energy Ministry Sends Delegation to Damascus

This is Beirut, 2024-12-28 16:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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A delegation from Turkey's energy ministry headed to Syria on Saturday to help Syrians obtain access to essential services after the fall of Bashar al-Assad. "A team from our energy ministry is on the way to Damascus," Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar told a meeting of the ruling AKP party in the central Anatolian province of Nevsehir. "We ...

Visiting Libyan Official Says Discussed Energy, Migration with New Syria Leader

This is Beirut, 2024-12-28 15:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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A senior official from Libya's UN-recognized government met Syria's new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa on Saturday and discussed issues including diplomatic relations, energy and migration. "We expressed our full support for the Syrian authorities in the success of the important transitional phase," Libyan Minister of State for Communication and ...

Syria Remains Tense as New Leadership Struggles to Establish Authority

This is Beirut, 2024-12-28 14:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Syria remains fraught with tensions on Saturday, as the new leadership — emerging from a rebellion led by the Islamists of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and responsible for overthrowing former President Bashar al-Assad — struggles to assert its authority across the entire country. Operations in Latakia The new authorities launched a sweeping ...

UNHCR: 58 000 People Have Returned to Syria since the Fall of the Assad Regime

This is Beirut, 2024-12-27 23:05 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced in a report Friday that some 58 000 people have returned to Syria since December 8, following the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime. “Refugees have returned from Lebanon, Turkey, and Jordan, with the main destinations being the governorates of Raqqa, Aleppo, Homs, and Daraa, ...

Relatives of Detained and Missing Syrians Hold Damascus Sit-in

Élie-Joe Kamel, 2024-12-27 22:09 - Reading : less than a minute

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Syrians holding up portraits of their missing relatives staged a sit-in outside Hijaz station in Damascus on Friday. They demanded accountability for those responsible for disappearances and torture in Syria.

Silent Protest in Damascus Demands Justice for Assad Regime's Disappeared

This is Beirut, 2024-12-27 21:53 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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A silent crowd gathered in the Syrian capital, Damascus, on Friday to press the new authorities about the fate of relatives who went missing under Bashar al-Assad and to demand justice for their loved ones. The fate of tens of thousands of people who disappeared under Assad, who was ousted on December 8 by a coalition of Islamist-led rebels, is a ...

Over 30,000 Syrians Returned Home Through Turkey in 17 Days

This is Beirut, 2024-12-27 19:15 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Nearly 31,000 Syrians have returned home since the fall of strongman Bashar al-Assad, Turkey's interior minister said Friday, the figure rising by about 5,000 in just three days. "The number of people who went back is 30,663," interior minister Ali Yerlikaya told the TGRT news channel, saying "30 percent" of them had been ...

Damascus Governor: Syria's New Government Seeks Peaceful Relations With Israel

This is Beirut, 2024-12-27 16:15 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Three weeks after the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime, the new Syrian government says it wants to establish cordial relations with Israel. This was stated by the governor of Damascus, Maher Marwan, during an interview with NPR in his office in the Syrian capital. Speaking on behalf of Syria's new leader, Ahmed el-Sharaa, Marwan stressed that ...

Fifty Tons of EU Aid Expected in Syria on December 31

This is Beirut, 2024-12-27 15:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Some 50 tons of EU-funded medical supplies that were flown to Turkey from Dubai are expected to enter Syria on December 31, a UN health official told AFP on Friday. The supplies, which were sent from a European Union stockpile in Dubai, landed in Istanbul early on Thursday and were to be driven to the border in the coming days. "The supplies are ...

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