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Iranian President Says Israel's Syria Attack 'Will Not Go Unanswered'

par This Is Beirut, 02/04 12:53 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Iran's President Ebrahim Raissi condemned on Tuesday a deadly air strike blamed on Israel against his country's consular annex in Damascus, saying the "cowardly crime will not go unanswered." "After repeated defeats and failures against the faith and will of the Resistance Front fighters, the Zionist regime has put blind assassinations on its ...

Senior Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham Leader Killed in Syria

par This Is Beirut, 05/04 11:17 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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A prominent Iraqi jihadist leader in the northwest of Syria was killed in a suicide bombing, announced on Friday his group and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) war monitor. "Abu Maria al-Qahtani was martyred after a treacherous attack by an Islamic State group member using an explosive belt," said former Al-Qaeda affiliate Hayat ...

Blast Kills 7 Children in Southern Syria

par This Is Beirut, 06/04 18:31 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Seven children were killed in southern Syria's Daraa province on Saturday when an "explosive device" detonated, state media reported. "Seven children" were killed "and two other people were injured, one of them a woman, when an explosive device planted by terrorists" went off in the city of Sanamayn, state news agency SANA reported, quoting a ...

EU Parliament Adopts Contentious Asylum Law Reform

par This Is Beirut, 10/04 22:14 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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The EU parliament on Wednesday adopted a contentious reform of Europe's asylum policies that will harden border procedures and force all the bloc's 27 nations to share responsibility. The parliament's main political groups overcame opposition from far-right and far-left parties to pass the new migration and asylum pact -- a sweeping reform nearly ...

Car Bomb Explodes in Damascus

par This Is Beirut, 13/04 11:48 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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An explosive device detonated in a car in an upscale neighbourhood of Damascus, Syrian state media said on Saturday, quoting a police source. "The explosion heard a short while ago in the Mazzeh area resulted from an explosive device detonating in a car in al-Huda square," Syria's official SANA news agency said, quoting a Damascus police command ...

Bashar Al-Assad Says Syria Has Held ‘Meetings’ With US

par This Is Beirut, 21/04 23:37 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview published Sunday by official news agency that Syria had held meetings "from time to time" with Washington. US-sanctioned President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview published Sunday Syria has held meetings "from time to time" with Washington, as it seeks openings after over a decade of ...

Iran Reduces Presence in Syria Following Israeli Strikes on Officials

par This Is Beirut, 24/04 15:24 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Iran reduced its military footprint in Syria after a succession of strikes blamed on Israel, a source close to Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah and a war monitor said on Wednesday. Iran has provided military support to Syrian government forces through more than a decade of civil war but a series of strikes targeting its commanders in recent ...

'Dead Cat Diplomacy,' Political Cynicism and Nihilistic Warmongering

par Charles Chartouni, 13/05 09:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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Aside from pacifist daydreaming and faked humanitarianism, how evitable are the battles in Rafah and South Lebanon? Is the unilateral pressure on Israel likely to forestall the inevitable confrontation on both sides of the border, while Hamas and Hezbollah are still determined to derail diplomatic mediations and engage in long hauled conflicts ...

Senior Syrian Officials to Go to Trial for Crimes Against Humanity

par This Is Beirut, 19/05 16:11 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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According to The Guardian, three high-ranking Syrian officials are to go on trial in Paris on Tuesday. They are accused of crimes against humanity and war crimes. In 2013, 20-year-old student Patrick Dabbagh was arrested by the Syrian army at his home in Damascus. Within 24-hours, the army returned for his 48-year-old father. Their fate remained ...

Israeli Drone Strike Kills Six Pro-Iran Fighters in Syria

par This Is Beirut, 20/05 13:26 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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A war monitor said at least six pro-Iran fighters were killed on Monday in Israeli strikes in Syria near the Lebanese border, in an area where Lebanon's powerful Hezbollah group holds sway. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said "Israeli strikes targeted two positions of pro-Iran groups in the Homs region," including "a Hezbollah site in ...

Syria's First Lady Diagnosed With Leukemia

par This Is Beirut, 21/05 12:36 - Reading : less than a minute

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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's British-born wife, Asma, who recovered from breast cancer in 2019, has been diagnosed with leukemia, the president's office said on Tuesday. She will undergo a "specialized treatment protocol" that requires social distancing to avoid infection, the statement said, adding that she will "temporarily withdraw from ...

French Prosecutors Seek Life Sentences for Assad Officials

par This Is Beirut, 24/05 18:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Prosecutors in France's first trial of officials from the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad said on Friday that they were seeking life sentences for three top security officers. On the final day of the trial before the Paris Criminal Court, they also asked for an international arrest warrant for the three, who are being tried in absentia for ...

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