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Damascus: 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 unity. “We will announce…
Damascus: 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 unity. “We will announce…
DAMASCUS: The first international commercial flight since the fall of former Syrian President Bashar Assad landed Tuesday at the Damascus airport, arriving from Qatar. The Qatar Airways flight landed at Damascus International Airport. A crowd of relatives and friends awaited the arrival of the passengers inside a terminal building. Separately, Jordanian state-run Petra news agency…
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Damascus: About half of school-age children in Syria are missing out on education after nearly 14 years of civil war, Save the Children told AFP on Monday, calling for “immediate action”. The overwhelming majority of Syrian children are also in need of immediate humanitarian assistance including food, the charity said, with at least half of…
Last Updated:December 28, 2024, 00:09 IST India Crux Yemen’s Houthis said they launched an attack on the Ben Gurion airport and another “active target” in Tel Aviv using a hypersonic missile and a drone. Meanwhile, Israeli media reported that a US THAAD missile defence battery, which was deployed in Israel’s following Iran’s October 1 attack,…
Last Updated:December 26, 2024, 10:58 PM IST India Crux Syrian security forces on Thursday launched a security crackdown in a region where 14 policemen were killed a day earlier in an ambush blamed on loyalists of ousted President Bashar Assad’s regime, state media reported.The new administration’s security forces said its aim was to “control security,…
Last Updated:December 25, 2024, 10:10 PM IST India Crux Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on December 25 that Kurdish militants in Syria will either lay down their weapons or “be buried”, amid hostilities between Turkey-backed Syrian fighters and the militants since the fall of Bashar al-Assad this month.Following Assad’s departure, Ankara has repeatedly insisted that…
Tehran: Syria’s newly appointed foreign minister, Asaad Hassan al-Shibani, told Iran on Tuesday not to spread chaos in Syria but to respect the Syrian people’s will and the country’s sovereignty. In a post on X, Shibani said: “Iran must respect the will of the Syrian people and the country’s sovereignty and security. We warn them…
Damascus: Syria wants to contribute to “regional peace”, the country’s new authorities said late Friday, after a meeting between leader Ahmed al-Sharaa and a US diplomatic delegation. “The Syrian side indicated that the Syrian people stand at an equal distance from all countries and parties in the region and that Syria rejects any polarisation,” the…