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UN Envoy Warns Against Syria Collapse at Crisis Talks

This is Beirut, 14/12 11:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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A UN envoy on Saturday urged foreign powers to work to avoid a collapse of vital Syrian institutions following the downfall of Bashar al-Assad, as diplomats gathered in Jordan for a conference on the crisis. Geir Pedersen, the UN's special envoy for Syria, also backed a "credible and inclusive" political process to form the next government as he ...

SOHR Reports Israeli Strikes on Former Syrian Arab Army's Military Sites

This is Beirut, 14/12 10:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) war monitor said Israel launched strikes early Saturday targeting military sites in Damascus and its countryside, in the latest such raids since rebels brought down Bashar al-Assad almost a week ago. "Israeli strikes destroyed a scientific institute" and other related military facilities in Barzeh, ...

Syrian Rebels Took a Year to Plan Assad's Ouster

This is Beirut, 13/12 21:40 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Syria's Islamist-led rebel alliance had been planning the surprise ouster of President Basher al-Assad for a year, an opposition military leader told the Guardian in an interview published Friday. The Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) Islamist group, which says it has moved away from its roots in Al-Qaeda, has long-controlled a part of northwest ...

Qatar Delegation to Visit Syria Sunday

This is Beirut, 13/12 21:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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A delegation from Qatar is due to visit Syria on Sunday for meetings with officials in its transitional government following the ouster of President Bashar al-Assad, a Qatari diplomat told AFP Friday. "The first Qatari delegation visit to Syria is expected to happen Sunday where they will take the necessary steps to reopen the embassy and ...

Lebanese Agriculture Lacks a Gateway

Liliane Mokbel, 13/12 20:07 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Lebanese farmers continue to endure substantial losses. Since the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime on December 8, the movement of refrigerated and covered trucks between Lebanon and the Arab hinterland has become increasingly irregular. All Lebanese exports and imports sent overland to and from the Arab world are reliant on transit through ...

Unless the Syrian Regime Is Involved…

Johnny Kortbawi, 13/12 18:24 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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The fall of the tyrannical regime in Damascus has unleashed decades of repressed anger – anger we’ve been holding on to for fifty years, as we endured Syria’s constant interference in Lebanese politics, along with the vile assaults that accompanied it at all levels. The Assad regime, with its allies, worked tirelessly to thwart the ...

Syrian Prisons: Programmed Dehumanization

David Sahyoun, 13/12 17:42 - Reading : 6 minute(s)

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Tortured and broken in the prisons of the Syrian regime, detainees are stripped of their humanity. Devastating traumas and challenges in reintegration: psychoanalysis and the humanities shed light on the mechanisms of inevitable dehumanization and outline the difficult paths of reconstruction, at the crossroads of the personal and the ...

Blinken on ME Tour: Pledges to Work with Iraq Against IS Jihadists

This is Beirut, 13/12 17:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken promised Friday to work with Iraq to ensure no resurgence of the Islamic State group after Bashar al-Assad's overthrow in neighboring Syria. On a regional tour devoted to a suddenly-changed Syria, the top US diplomat flew to Baghdad from the Turkish capital Ankara and headed into talks with Iraqi Prime ...

Saydnaya: The Suffering of Families Who Still Have Hope

Elie Ziadé, 13/12 14:00 - Reading : less than a minute

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The human slaughterhouse at Saydnaya, the Assad clan's prison 30 kilometers from Damascus, is still torturing Syrians, despite the fall of the regime last Sunday. Hundreds of families have no news of their loved ones, in some cases for more than a decade. In spite of everything, some try to search for clues to obtain proof of life... or death.  

Aleppo: Christmas Amid Hope and Concerns for Christians

This is Beirut, 13/12 13:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Where should the crown be placed? In the courtyard of the Marist Brothers in Aleppo, one of the eleven Christian communities in Syria’s second city (northwest), the question that is sparking debates is about the Christmas tree. Just days after their swift conquest of power in Damascus on December 8, the new rulers of the country, former ...

The Israeli Army Urged to Remain in the Syrian Buffer Zone Throughout the Winter

This is Beirut, 13/12 11:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz on Friday instructed the army to “prepare to stay” throughout the winter in the buffer zone between Israel and Syria, located atop the Golan Heights. Israel captured part of this strategic plateau during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. Israel seized control of the demilitarized zone on Sunday, just hours after ...

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