This Is Beirut, 22/05 17:50 - Reading : less than a minute
Syria Damascus Bashar al-Assad
The National Museum in Damascus hosted an exhibition entitled “Detained and Missing” on Sunday.
Salam El Zaatari, 22/05 09:30 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Lebanon Israel Syria Donald Trump Joseph Aoun United States
If you want to understand the Middle East in 2025, don’t look at the maps. Look at the fault lines. They’re not drawn in ink – they’re drawn in fear, legacy and a deep unease that this time, the region isn’t just shifting, it’s splintering. This week, United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio sounded an alarm loud enough to rattle ...
This is Beirut, 21/05 18:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
United States Thomas Barrack Syria
The United States is set to appoint President Donald Trump’s longtime advisor and current US ambassador to Turkey, Thomas Barrack, as a special envoy for Syria, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter and a Turkish diplomat. This decision follows Trump’s landmark announcement last week that US sanctions on Syria will be ...
This is Beirut, 21/05 10:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Syria Lebanon Weapons Smuggling Border Iraq
A significant cache of weapons destined for Lebanon has been seized by Syrian security forces in the border region of Al-Boukamal, east of Deir Al-Zor, according to local sources cited by Houna Loubnan. The arms reportedly originated from Iraq. The seizure was the result of a large-scale security operation targeting an arms trafficking network ...
This is Beirut, 20/05 23:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Syria Russia SOHR Hmeimim Air Base
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)
Untied States Syria Marco Rubio
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 ...
Hussain Abdul-Hussain, 20/05 16:48 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Lebanon Israel Syria United States Donald Trump
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 ...