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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…
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Syria’s new authorities launched an operation in a stronghold of ousted president Bashar al-Assad on Thursday (December 26, 2024), with a war monitor saying three gunmen affiliated with the former government were killed. What’s happening in Syria? Explained Assad fled Syria after an Islamist-led offensive wrested from his control city after city until Damascus fell…
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Amy Pope, Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM). File. | Photo Credit: Reuters The raft of international sanctions on Syria must be reassessed to help the country rebuild following the ousting of president Bashar al-Assad, the head of the UN’s migration agency said on Friday (December 20, 2024). Amy Pope also said…
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A worker tears down the pictures of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, former Syrian President Hafez al-Assad, Lebanon’s late Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at a gas station in Nubl, a Shi’ite village seized by rebels, in rural Aleppo, Syria, December 11, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters The head of…
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The Syrian rebels now in power in Damascus appointed Mohammad al-Bashir as head of a transitional government that will be in place until March 1. File | Photo Credit: AFP The Syrian rebels now in power in Damascus appointed Mohammad al-Bashir as head of a transitional government that will be in place until March 1,…
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A drone view shows buildings in Damascus, after Syrian rebels ousted President Bashar al-Assad, Syria December 10, 2024 | Photo Credit: Reuters The Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the Syrian Islamist militant group, had been preparing for months for a large-scale offensive against regime forces. The civil war was quiet for years, particularly after the regime…
Britain, Germany, France, Italy and several other European countries said Monday they would freeze all pending asylum requests from Syrians, a day after the ouster of president Bashar al-Assad. While Berlin and other governments said they were watching the fast-moving developments in the war-ravaged nation, Austria signalled it would soon deport refugees back to Syria….
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Israeli soldiers stand near tanks near the border with Syria on the Israeli side of the border on December 9, 2024 in Golan Heights. | Photo Credit: Getty Images Israeli troops that have moved into the buffer zone on the edge of the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights “constitute a violation” of the 1974 disengagement agreement between…
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Damascus stirred back to life on Monday (December 9, 2024) at the start of a hopeful but uncertain era after militants seized the capital and President Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia, following 13 years of civil war and more than 50 years of his family’s brutal rule. Heavy traffic returned to the streets and people…
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Tehran: The fall of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad shattered the key link in Iran’s “axis of resistance”, but Tehran will look for ways to adapt to the new reality, analysts say. After nearly 14 years of war in Syria, a lightning offensive launched by an Islamist-led rebel alliance brought Assad down. The offensive began on…
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