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Sky News' special correspondent Alex Crawford is in southern Syria, where the government says escalating violence has been ...
Israel's military has begun a ground operation in the central Gazan city of Deir al Balah, with smoke seen rising from the ...
Israel, which has murdered over 60,000 Palestinians - most of them women and children - in Gaza, wounded more than 130,000, ...
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Syria…Victory and Difficult Tests

As bloody crises often ravage our countries, we find ourselves confronted with a bitter truth: our homelands are deeply wounded and lie atop wells of fear. People often tend to paint a rosy picture of ...
The directly visible indicator of the devastation was the collapse of the local currency (from 47 Syrian pounds per US dollar in 2010 to 14,800 by the end of 2024), as growing budget deficits were ...
An Abraham Accords-centric approach tailors the Cold War-era “containment” strategy that George F. Kennan formulated to the Middle East, with Iran standing in for the Soviet Union.
Syria's new government sent troops to quell fighting between the Druze religious minority and Sunni Muslim tribes. Then ...
In March, government forces were involved in a killing spree on the Syrian coast that left dead about 1,600 people, mostly ...
The violence in Sweida Province between groups from Bedouin tribes and the Druse minority renewed fears of sectarian conflict and drew Israeli attacks before a cease-fire was announced Saturday.
Israel has struck military tanks in southern Syria, where government forces and Bedouin tribes clash with Druze militias.