This is Beirut, 06/02 18:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
A precarious calm prevailed Friday evening along the Lebanese-Syrian border after intense clashes between Syrian forces of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and Lebanese tribes involved in trafficking in which four people were killed and ten injured. On Friday morning, artillery fire was launched by HTS towards the Jarmash area in Syria, ...
This is Beirut, 06/02 16:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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A United Nations commission said Thursday it had documented the systematic destruction and pillaging of displaced people's property during Syria's war, warning of demographic change nearly two months after Bashar al-Assad's ouster. The Independent International Commission of Inquiry (CoI) on Syria has documented "pillages of such large scale that ...
This is Beirut, 04/02 21:21 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Turkey Ahmad al-Sharaa Recep Tayyip Erdogan Syria
Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday hailed Syria's Ahmed al-Sharaa for his "strong commitment" to fighting terror as the newly installed interim president made his first visit to Turkey. Sharaa flew to Ankara from Saudi Arabia where he had sought Riyadh's support to fund Syria's reconstruction and revive its economy after 13 years of civil ...
This is Beirut, 03/02 21:40 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Syrian leader Ahmad al-Sharaa said Monday organising elections could take up to five years, the week after he was appointed interim president and less than two months after ousting Bashar al-Assad. "My estimate is that the period of time will be approximately between four and five years until the elections," Sharaa said in a pre-recorded ...
This is Beirut, 03/02 16:07 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A car bomb on Monday killed 15 people, mostly women farm workers, in the northern Syrian city of Manbij where Kurdish forces are battling Turkey-backed groups, state media reported. Citing White Helmet rescuers, SANA news agency said there had been a "massacre" on a local road, with "the explosion of a car bomb near a vehicle transporting ...
Charles Chartouni, 03/02 09:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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The transitions in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza are still controversial, and their actors are undecided about their outcomes. Observers ask whether the various actors are genuinely interested in the transformative courses and to what extent. The newly set dynamics that have taken place throughout the Near East have not yet been relayed by steadier, ...
This is Beirut, 02/02 18:51 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Syria's interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa said Saudi Arabia had a "genuine desire" to help rebuild his war-torn country, after meeting on Sunday with the oil-rich Gulf state's crown prince. Accompanied by his foreign minister, Asaad al-Shaibani, Sharaa was greeted by Saudi officials on arrival in Riyadh, images from state ...
Élie-Joe Kamel, 31/01 22:10 - Reading : 7 minute(s)
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The diplomatic roller-coaster in Syria’s capital since the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime suggests that a strategic shift is underway. This is all the more significant as the Prince of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, made an official visit to Damascus on Thursday, where he was received by the interim Syrian president, Ahmad ...
This is Beirut, 31/01 18:45 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Syria's new authorities on Friday announced the arrest of a cousin of ousted leader Bashar al-Assad, accused of orchestrating a crackdown in Daraa, where the 2011 uprising began. Atif Najib, the former head of political security in Daraa in southern Syria, was arrested in Latakia, on the country's west coast, the official SANA news agency ...
Liliane Mokbel, 31/01 17:05 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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The 27-member European Union agreed on Monday on a "roadmap" to gradually ease sanctions on key sectors of the Syrian economy that were imposed under the former regime of Bashar al-Assad. However, the EU has ruled out any unconditional lifting of these measures. The process will be gradual and subject to strict conditions. In other words, the bloc ...
This is Beirut, 30/01 23:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Syria's interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, promised Thursday to hold a "national dialogue conference" in his first address to the nation since the fall of ousted leader Bashar al-Assad. Sharaa, who was appointed interim president a day earlier for an unspecified transitional period, vowed to preserve "civil peace" and Syria's territorial ...
This is Beirut, 30/01 21:00 - Reading : less than a minute
More than a month after the fall of Assad’s regime on December 8, families are still searching for missing loved ones. At Tal al-Naser cemetery, Adnan Deeb, known as Abu Sham, combs through worn ledgers of the dead – some with names, others reduced to mere codes. Among those searching is Fairuz, a mother from Homs who still hopes to find her ...