This is Beirut, 25/02 20:04 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Damascus Syria Ahmad al-Sharaa
Syria's national dialogue conference, held Tuesday in Damascus, called for transitional justice, freedom and a state monopoly on arms to be among the cornerstones of the country's reconstruction after Bashar al-Assad's overthrow. Interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa, in a speech earlier to the hundreds of attendees, said the country was ...
This is Beirut, 24/02 23:08 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
European Union Damascus Europe United Nations
The European Union on Monday eased sanctions on Syria's energy, transport and banking sectors in a bid to help the country's reconstruction after the fall of Bashar al-Assad. Syria's new leaders have been clamouring for the West to ease sanctions imposed on Assad's regime during the civil war. But Europe and other powers have ...
This is Beirut, 24/02 22:10 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Damascus Israel Benjamin Netanyahu
The Military Council in Syria’s Sweida announced on Monday that it is coordinating with the spiritual leader of the Druze, Hikmat al-Hijri, and is advocating for a decentralized secular state. This announcement was made in the council’s first official statement during a military parade held at the Kafr Agricultural Airport in the province's ...
This is Beirut, 21/02 18:20 - Reading : less than a minute
Syrian-American Rabbi Yusuf Hamra led a prayer in Damascus, marking a rare gathering for Syria's Jewish community.
Marc Saikali, 18/02 15:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Beirut International Airport Damascus Hezbollah Joseph Aoun
In 1973, Henry Kissinger refused to land at Beirut International Airport because it was under the control of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). He also avoided traveling by road to the airport for the same reason. At the time, President Sleiman Frangieh welcomed him instead at the Rayak military airport — an implicit admission that ...
This is Beirut, 15/02 13:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iran said Saturday that it had received messages from the new government in Damascus following the ouster of its longtime Syrian ally, former president Bashar al-Assad. "The Islamic Republic of Iran is indirectly in contact with Damascus," Tehran's special envoy for Syrian affairs, Mohammad Reza Raouf Sheibani, was quoted as saying by the ...
This is Beirut, 13/02 09:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Emmanuel Macron European Union Damascus
Syria's Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani is to attend an international conference in Paris on Thursday on the political transition after Islamist-led rebels seized power from president Bashar al-Assad in December. The trip will be the first such official visit to Europe for talks by the top diplomat of post-Assad Syria after he attended the ...
Michel Touma, 10/02 10:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Damascus Hezbollah Government Doha
Politics are ever-changing, particularly in a volatile region like the Middle East. No power or faction can maintain dominance indefinitely. The formation of the first government under President Joseph Aoun is a striking illustration of this reality, particularly in the case of Hezbollah. This new cabinet marks a clear break from the political ...
This is Beirut, 08/02 17:15 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Israeli military said it carried out an air strike on Saturday targeting a weapons depot used by Palestinian militant group Hamas in southern Syria. Israeli "fighter jets conducted an intelligence-based strike on a weapons storage facility belonging to the Hamas terrorist organisation in the area of Deir Ali in southern Syria", the military ...
This is Beirut, 30/01 23:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Ahmad al-Sharaa Syria Damascus
Syria's interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, promised Thursday to hold a "national dialogue conference" in his first address to the nation since the fall of ousted leader Bashar al-Assad. Sharaa, who was appointed interim president a day earlier for an unspecified transitional period, vowed to preserve "civil peace" and Syria's territorial ...
This is Beirut, 29/01 15:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
US Secretary of State Damascus European Union Middle East Saudi Arabia
Syria's new leadership on Wednesday urged Moscow to "address past mistakes" during talks with visiting Russian officials -- the first since former president Bashar al-Assad, a Kremlin ally, was toppled last month. The visit came with Russia keen to secure the fate of two military bases in Syria and after Russian President Vladimir Putin denied ...
This is Beirut, 29/01 06:10 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Damascus Volodymyr Zelensky Middle East Ukraine Vladimir Putin
Two senior Russian officials met new government leaders in Damascus on Tuesday, a first since the fall of the Kremlin's ally, ex-president Bashar al-Assad, in December. Moscow wants to keep its two major military bases in Syria. Quoted by the Russian press agencies, Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov said that he and his delegation had ...