Wed 18 December 2024: Russia’s parliament passed a law that would allow for the suspension of bans on groups that Moscow has designated as terrorist organisations on Tuesday – paving the way for it to normalise relations with the Afghan Taliban and potentially with the new rulers of Syria. No country currently recognises the Taliban government in Afghanistan, which […]
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Wed 18 December 2024: The Israeli army plans to prevent displaced Palestinians from returning to their homes in northern Gaza, according to Israeli media on Tuesday, Anadolu Agency reports. The Israeli army “forcibly displaced around 65,000 out of 70,000 residents to Gaza City, while a few thousand civilians remain in large shelters such as schools and clinics”, Yedioth […]
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Twelve mass graves have been discovered in southern Syria [Sam Hariri/AFP] Tue 17 December 2024: Burial sites are emerging across Syria after the ousting of al-Assad, accused of widespread extrajudicial killings. A mass grave that could contain the remains of thousands of people has been found outside Syria’s capital Damascus, as the new interim government promises to […]
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Creator: © Ronen Zvulun / Reuters | Credit: REUTERS Tue 17 December 2024: A quarter of the Israelis live with food insecurity, including 34 percent of the children in the country, a new report has revealed. The Alternative Poverty Report issued by the nonprofit organisation Latet revealed that 28.7 per cent of Israelis – 2,756,000 citizens – including 39.6 per cent […]
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Tue 17 December 2024: Photos captured by a Syrian military police officer known by the alias “Caesar” documenting torture and deaths in detention centers are poised to become critical evidence in legal proceedings against Bashar al-Assad’s regime. The Caesar files, which consist of tens of thousands of images, expose systematic human rights violations. The images […]
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Mon 16 December 2024: US President-elect Donald Trump said Türkiye is “very smart” Monday as he hailed his personal relationship with his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. “Turkey is a major force, by the way, and Erdogan is somebody I got along with great but he has a major military force. And his has not […]
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Mon 16 December 2024: The Syrian presidency’s telegram channel has published a statement purported to be from Bashar al-Assad, in which the deposed president says he left Syria on the evening of December 8 and that his departure was unplanned. “First, my departure from Syria was neither planned nor did it occur during the final […]
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Mon 16 December 2024: A Palestinian grandfather, who grieved for his three-year-old granddaughter after she was killed in an Israeli air strike last year, was killed in another Israeli attack on central Gaza today. Khaled Nabhan won widespread recognition last November when his three-year-old granddaughter, Reem, and her five-year-old brother, Tariq, were killed in an […]
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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 Mon 16 December […]
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Rasha Fattouh, who was in 4th grade at the time of the attack, is seen during an exclusive interview in Baniyas district of Tartous Governorate city in Syria, where the Baath regime of Bashar al-Assad killed 248 civilians on December 12, 2024. [Eşref Musa – Anadolu Agency] Sun 15 December 2024: Survivors of the 2013 Baniyas massacre […]
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