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BAGHDAD: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken made an unannounced stop in Iraq on Friday on his latest visit to the Middle East aimed at stabilising the situation in Syria to prevent further regional turmoil. Blinken met in Baghdad with Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed al-Sudani as part of the hastily arranged trip, his 12th to…
Berlin: German hospitals and other employers fear worker shortages if many Syrian refugees return home after the fall of president Bashar al-Assad, a concern backed by a study released Friday. Health care providers have warned that more than 5,000 Syrian doctors work in German medical facilities, often in rural areas, and that they and other…
Damascus, Syria: Syria’s new leadership said Thursday it was searching for missing US journalist Austin Tice and had secured the release of another American it said had been held by the ousted government. In 2022, US President Joe Biden accused Syria of holding Tice, a freelance photojournalist detained near Damascus a decade earlier, and demanded…
Last Updated:December 13, 2024, 00:11 IST India Crux Israel declared total air superiority over Syria following an extensive bombing campaign that dismantled most of Syria’s air defence systems. The Israeli Air Force reported the destruction of 86% of Syria’s air defences, including Russian-made systems like SA-22 Pantsir-S1 and SA-17 Buk, which had posed challenges since…
The cataclysmic events in Syria have taken the world, at least much of it, by surprise. Their full magnitude and ramifications will be understood only with time. How did proud, progressive Syria come to such a pass? The only parallel is Afghanistan, where a militant group simply strolled into Kabul and took over the country…
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DAMASCUS: The jihadist rebels who toppled Syrian President Bashar Assad say they want to build a unified, inclusive country. But after 14 years of civil war, putting that ideal into practice will not be easy. For Syria’s Kurdish minority, America’s closest ally in the country, the struggle for a new order is entering a potentially…
Syria’s rebel leader vowed not to pardon officials involved in torture, as families sought missing detainees after mass releases“We will not pardon those involved in torturing detainees,” Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group leader Abu Mohammed al-Jolani saidAl-Jolani also urged “countries to hand over any of those criminals who may have fled so they can be…
A signed portrait of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, dated 2002, was among the treasures inside Bashar al-Assad’s New Shaab Palace in Damascus, now overrun by rebel forces. The portrait, a relic of the Syrian president’s diplomatic visit to Buckingham Palace with his British-born wife Asma, was discovered in a room stuffed with prized…
Damascus has fallen. Once again. One of the oldest cities in the world has fallen. To rise again from its rubble, heralding a new order. In its rise and fall, Damascus has lessons for all civilisations, all rebels, and all regimes. It was in July 2012 that rebels penetrated Damascus, hitherto considered inviolable. Both the…