This is Beirut 2024-12-14 17:50 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Turkey reopened its embassy in Damascus on Saturday, nearly a week after president Bashar al-Assad was toppled by forces backed by Ankara, and 12 years after the diplomatic outpost was shuttered early in Syria's civil war. The move came as Middle Eastern and Western diplomats were meeting in Jordan for high-level talks on Syria, and a day after ...
This is Beirut 2024-12-14 17:20 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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More than 60 years later, the assassination of U.S. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy continues to fuel conspiracy theories. The arrival of his nephew, Robert Kennedy Jr, as a minister under Donald Trump could now bring these theories as far as the White House. For a time, he was a candidate in November’s presidential election, but “RFK ...
This is Beirut 2024-12-14 16:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Top diplomats from eight Arab countries, meeting in Jordan on Saturday, called for a peaceful transition in Syria with UN and Arab League support following Bashar al-Assad's ouster. In a final statement after the talks in the Jordanian Red Sea port of Aqaba, foreign ministers from Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Lebanon, the United Arab ...
This is Beirut 2024-12-14 14:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Russian forces in Syria are reportedly preparing to evacuate their bases, according to satellite images obtained Friday by AFP from Maxar Technologies, following the ousting of former president and Kremlin ally Bashar al-Assad by Syrian rebels last week. Russia, which has been militarily involved in the Syrian conflict since 2015, maintains a ...
Sana Richa Choucair 2024-12-14 13:25 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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For several months now, international political discourse has largely centered around one key issue: Iran. More specifically, the repeated statements by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President-elect Donald Trump suggest that the main focus of the two allies is to apply maximum pressure on the Iranian regime. On one side, Trump ...
This is Beirut 2024-12-14 12:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Iran confirmed Saturday that it has allowed watchdog the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to increase the number of inspections it carries out into Tehran's nuclear programme, state media reported. "We have increased capacity -- it is natural that the number of inspections should also increase," the official IRNA news agency quoted the ...
This is Beirut 2024-12-14 11:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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A UN envoy on Saturday urged foreign powers to work to avoid a collapse of vital Syrian institutions following the downfall of Bashar al-Assad, as diplomats gathered in Jordan for a conference on the crisis. Geir Pedersen, the UN's special envoy for Syria, also backed a "credible and inclusive" political process to form the next government as he ...
Antoine Saadé 2024-12-14 11:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Recently, social media has been flooded with images and videos exposing the extent of the suffering endured by detainees in Syrian prisons, particularly in the notorious Saydnaya prison, dubbed the “human slaughterhouse.” Some detainees were released in a state of unconsciousness or memory loss, while others were disoriented and unaware of ...
This is Beirut 2024-12-14 10:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) war monitor said Israel launched strikes early Saturday targeting military sites in Damascus and its countryside, in the latest such raids since rebels brought down Bashar al-Assad almost a week ago. "Israeli strikes destroyed a scientific institute" and other related military facilities in Barzeh, ...
This is Beirut 2024-12-14 10:15 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
South Korean lawmakers on Saturday voted to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol over his failed martial law bid, with the opposition declaring a "victory of the people". The vote took place as hundreds of thousands took to the streets of Seoul in rival rallies for and against Yoon, who launched a failed attempt to impose martial law on ...
This is Beirut 2024-12-14 09:55 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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Jordan will host US, EU, Turkish and Arab diplomats on Saturday for high-level talks on Syria, a day after celebrations in Damascus and nationwide rejoicing at the ouster of president Bashar al-Assad. Syrians celebrated the day they called the "Friday of victory" with fireworks heralding the fall of the Assad dynasty. More than half a century of ...
Elie Ziadé 2024-12-13 22:45 - Reading : less than a minute
In an interview with This is Beirut, the Syriac Catholic Archbishop of Homs and former monk of Mar Moussa, Jacques Mourad, stressed the importance of Syrian unity. “Today is an opportunity to free ourselves from all the horrible theories we've lived with for fifty years; the idea of ghettos and minorities, or that Muslims will kill us and ...