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Visiting Libyan Official Says Discussed Energy, Migration with New Syria Leader

This is Beirut 2024-12-28 15:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

A senior official from Libya's UN-recognized government met Syria's new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa on Saturday and discussed issues including diplomatic relations, energy and migration. "We expressed our full support for the Syrian authorities in the success of the important transitional phase," Libyan Minister of State for Communication and ...

Syria Remains Tense as New Leadership Struggles to Establish Authority

This is Beirut 2024-12-28 14:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Syria remains fraught with tensions on Saturday, as the new leadership — emerging from a rebellion led by the Islamists of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and responsible for overthrowing former President Bashar al-Assad — struggles to assert its authority across the entire country. Operations in Latakia The new authorities launched a sweeping ...

China, Iran FMs Agree Mideast ‘Not a Battleground for Big Powers'

This is Beirut 2024-12-28 11:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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The top diplomats of China and Iran agreed Saturday that the Middle East is "not a battleground for the big powers" and should not be an arena of geopolitical competition between countries outside the region. Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi agreed that "the international community should respect the ...

Trump Asks US Supreme Court to Pause Law Threatening TikTok Ban

This is Beirut 2024-12-28 10:25 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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US President-elect Donald Trump filed a brief Friday urging the Supreme Court to pause a law that would ban TikTok the day before his January 20 inauguration if it is not sold by its Chinese owner ByteDance. "In light of the novelty and difficulty of this case, the court should consider staying the statutory deadline to grant more breathing ...

Health Officials Say Israeli Forces Detain Director of Kamal Adwan Hospital

This is Beirut 2024-12-28 09:55 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Gaza health officials said on Saturday that Israeli forces detained the director of a hospital in the north, which the World Health Organization said was put out of service by an Israeli raid. "The occupation forces have taken dozens of the medical staff from Kamal Adwan Hospital to a detention centre for interrogation, including the director, ...

Israel Intercepts a Missile From Yemen The Day After a Strike On Sanaa

This is Beirut 2024-12-28 04:05 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

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The Israeli military said it intercepted a missile launched from Yemen early Saturday, a day after the Houthi-held capital Sanaa was hit by fresh air strikes. Sirens sounded in areas of Jerusalem and the Dead Sea on Saturday as "a missile launched from Yemen was intercepted... prior to crossing into Israeli territory", the Israeli ...

Last Major Hospital in Northern Gaza ‘Out Of Action’ After Israeli Raid, Says WHO

This is Beirut 2024-12-28 01:20 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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The WHO announced on Friday that the last major hospital in northern Gaza was ‘out of service’ after an Israeli army raid on Hamas fighters near the hospital, which the Palestinian Islamist movement claims was taken by storm. ‘This morning's raid on the Kamal Adwan hospital has put the last major health centre in northern ...

UNHCR: 58 000 People Have Returned to Syria since the Fall of the Assad Regime

This is Beirut 2024-12-27 23:05 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced in a report Friday that some 58 000 people have returned to Syria since December 8, following the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime. “Refugees have returned from Lebanon, Turkey, and Jordan, with the main destinations being the governorates of Raqqa, Aleppo, Homs, and Daraa, ...

Airstrike Hits Yemen's Capital, Houthis Blame US and UK

This is Beirut 2024-12-27 22:50 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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A fresh air strike hit Yemen's Houthi-held capital Sanaa on Friday, the Iran-backed Houthis said, after they claimed to have carried out new attacks on Israel amid mounting hostilities. The strike comes a day after Israeli air raids hit Sanaa international airport and other targets in Yemen, as the head of the UN's World Health Organization was ...

Zelensky Claims That Several North Korean Soldiers Were Killed in Ukraine

This is Beirut 2024-12-27 22:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday that "several" wounded North Korean soldiers died after being captured by Ukrainian forces, as he accused Russia of throwing them into battle with "minimal protection." "Today there were reports about several soldiers from North Korea. Our soldiers managed to take them prisoner. But they were ...

VideosRelatives of Detained and Missing Syrians Hold Damascus Sit-in

Élie-Joe Kamel 2024-12-27 22:09 - Reading : less than a minute

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Syrians holding up portraits of their missing relatives staged a sit-in outside Hijaz station in Damascus on Friday. They demanded accountability for those responsible for disappearances and torture in Syria.

Silent Protest in Damascus Demands Justice for Assad Regime's Disappeared

This is Beirut 2024-12-27 21:53 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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A silent crowd gathered in the Syrian capital, Damascus, on Friday to press the new authorities about the fate of relatives who went missing under Bashar al-Assad and to demand justice for their loved ones. The fate of tens of thousands of people who disappeared under Assad, who was ousted on December 8 by a coalition of Islamist-led rebels, is a ...