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Firefighting efforts have been hampered by the presence of mines and unexploded ordnance left over from the civil war, as the country grapples with the worst drought in decades.
The UAE’s interventionist foreign policy, backing Assad in Syria and the RSF in Sudan, has backfired, damaging its global ...
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Lebanon’s Opportunity—or Missed Opportunity?
For decades, observers have said that, in the Middle East, change moves at a snail’s pace. That assumption no longer holds. Just look at the dramatic transformations unfolding across Lebanon, Syria, ...
US allies won assurances Friday from new Secretary of State Rex Tillerson that Washington backed a UN-brokered political ...
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Syrian Civil War Explained
The Kings and Generals Modern Affairs series returns with a comprehensive summary of the Syrian Civil War. Beginning with the ...
Syria has unveiled a new national emblem which reflects the country’s “united, indivisible” identity, according to Syrian President Ahmad Al Shara. Mr Al Shara launched the new emblem at the People’s ...
As the U.N. Security Council prepares to vote Thursday on humanitarian aid deliveries to rebel-held northwest Syria from Turkey, Russia agreed to continue such deliveries but only ...
Since the GHF began operating at the end of May, thousands of people have been injured and more than 600 have been killed trying to get aid from its four distribution centres. Israeli soldiers have ...
A church bombing in Damascus killed worshippers during a feast day. The Antiochian Church honors them as new martyrs, echoing ...
MPs in County Durham and Teesside have been in office for one year since the 2024 general election. How much have they ...
From China to Iran, several countries have already been engaging with the Taliban. Experts say they could be next.