This is Beirut, 20/05 23:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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An armed group linked to Syria's new government briefly attacked Russia's Hmeimim air base in western Syria on Tuesday, a war monitor and a witness have said. Located in the coastal Latakia province, the Hmeimim base served as a refuge for thousands of people who fled March's sectarian violence, where over 1,700 mostly Alawite people were ...
This is Beirut, 20/05 19:59 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
EU countries agreed Tuesday to lift all their remaining economic sanctions on Syria in a bid to help the war-torn country recover after the ouster of Bashar al-Assad. "Today, we took the decision to lift our economic sanctions on Syria," the EU's top diplomat Kaja Kallas posted on X after a meeting of the bloc's foreign ...
This is Beirut, 20/05 18:57 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned Tuesday that Syria could be weeks away from a fresh civil war of "epic proportions," as he called for support for the transitional leadership. "It is our assessment that, frankly, the transitional authority, given the challenges they're facing, is maybe weeks -- not many months -- away ...
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A joke has it that Syria’s self-proclaimed president, Ahmad al-Sharaa, offered to build a Trump Tower in Damascus to make up for the two New York towers that Al-Qaeda, al-Sharaa former organization, destroyed on 9/11, killing 2,753 Americans. Times are changing. Since October 7, Iran has been begging America for a nuclear deal that ...
This is Beirut, 19/05 12:55 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Syrian authorities on Monday announced that they had thwarted an attempt to smuggle out four million tablets of captagon, an amphetamine-like narcotic that has flooded the region. The interior ministry said in a statement that authorities seized "over four million captagon tablets that were tightly hidden inside industrial equipment designed for ...
This is Beirut, 19/05 09:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Three police officers were killed and two other people wounded when a car bomb exploded near a police station in eastern Syria on Sunday, state news agency SANA reported. "Three police officers were martyred and two others were injured in an explosion that occurred today near the police station in the city of Al-Mayadeen in the eastern ...
This is Beirut, 18/05 19:07 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Israel announced on Sunday that it had retrieved the official Syrian archive on famed spy Eli Cohen -- a cache of 2,500 documents, photographs and personal effects linked to the Mossad agent executed in Damascus in 1965. "In a complex covert operation by the Mossad, in cooperation with a strategic partner service, the official Syrian archive ...
This is Beirut, 17/05 19:55 - Reading : less than a minute
Morocco said Saturday it will reopen its embassy in Damascus, closed since 2012, signaling renewed support for Syria after the overthrow of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad. The decision was announced in a letter from King Mohammed VI to Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa, read by the Moroccan foreign minister at an Arab League summit in ...
This is Beirut, 16/05 17:35 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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The World Bank on Friday said it would restart operations in Syria following a 14-year pause, after Saudi Arabia and Qatar had paid off the country's outstanding debts. The Bank's operations in Syria were halted when the civil war broke out in 2011, preventing the country from gaining access to its development loans, grants, and technical ...
This is Beirut, 16/05 14:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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On the eve of his departure for Baghdad to lead the Lebanese delegation at the Arab summit, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam issued a firm message outlining his government’s intentions to reestablish Lebanon’s standing in the region. “Lebanon intends to fully reconnect with its Arab environment and regain its place on the regional scene,” Salam ...
This is Beirut, 16/05 10:40 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Minister of Energy Joe Saddi expressed cautious optimism on Friday following the United States’ surprise decision to lift certain sanctions on Syria, suggesting the move could breathe new life into long-stalled regional energy projects vital to Lebanon’s power sector. Speaking to the Markazia news agency, Saddi said the US initiative may ...
This is Beirut, 15/05 18:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday met Syria's foreign minister to discuss normalizing relations after President Donald Trump moved to ease sanctions on the war-battered country. The top US diplomat, in the Turkish resort of Antalya for a meeting of NATO foreign ministers, opened talks with Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad ...