Sun 08 December 2024: The former president al-Assad and his family have received political asylum from the Kremlin for “humanitarian reasons”. When the uprising began at the end of November there were reports that al-Assad and his family flew to Russia, and that al-Assad asked Moscow to help him militarily. But back then Moscow neither […]
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Sun 08 December 2024: Nearly one million displaced Palestinians in war-torn Gaza are at risk of extreme cold and rain this winter, the UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) warned on Sunday. “Displaced people in Gaza need protection from the rain and cold. Only around 23% of this need has been met, leaving 945,000 people […]
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Sun 08 December 2024: Israeli forces also bomb weapons depots in southern Syria and the capital Damascus, Israeli media reports. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israeli forces have seized a buffer zone in the occupied Golan Heights established by a 1974 ceasefire agreement with Syria, after a lightning advance by Syrian opposition forces ended Bashar al-Assad’s […]
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Sun 08 December 2024: The Israeli military announced Saturday that Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi approved “offensive and defensive plans” to address “any potential threats” from Syria in light of the developments in that country. Halevi held an assessment session with military leaders on the situation in Syria, during which he approved the plans to […]
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Sun 08 December 2024: A large-scale search is underway for ousted Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, following the opposition’s takeover of Damascus and the official declaration of the end of his decades-long rule. Opposition factions are interrogating military and intelligence officials for information on Al-Assad’s whereabouts, sources told CNN. Speculation about Al-Assad’s fate intensified after reports of an Ilyushin-76 […]
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Sun 08 December 2024: Sixty-one years of Baath Party rule in Syria collapsed on Sunday when the capital Damascus fell out of the hands of regime control. The Arab Socialist Baath Party had come to power in Syria in 1963, in a coup. In 1970, Hafez al-Assad – the father of Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s newly […]
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Sat 07 December 2024: India cited “national interests” and commitments to various regimes in defending arms supplies to Israel. “The issue of India’s exports, including India’s exports of anything which directly or indirectly has any military implications, is guided by our national interest and by our commitments to various regimes,” Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said in response to a […]
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Sat 07 December 2024: The Israeli army announced on Saturday that it has decided to deploy additional forces along its border with Syria in response to recent advances made by anti-regime groups in Syria’s civil war. In a statement, the Israeli army said: “Following an assessment of the situation, it was decided to call up […]
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Sat 07 December 2024: Qatar has recommitted to its role in mediating the Gaza cease-fire negotiations, as announced by Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani during the opening of the 22nd Doha Forum on Saturday. This move comes after Qatar had suspended its mediation efforts nearly a month ago, citing […]
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Sat 07 December 2024: History will record that the year 2024 was a critical year with all its phases, developments and wars, inflicting severe harm to the project and status of Iran, its axis and its allies more than any year before it. Israel’s aggression continued in its war of extermination on Gaza. The number […]
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