Syria flashes signs of peril and promise in a week of violence and diplomacy
The peril and promise of Syria under interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa — the former leader of an Islamist insurgent group — ...
A country too dangerous to visit is one I can’t wait to return to
As Mark Twain wrote, Damascus “measures time not by days and months and years, but by the empires she has seen rise and ...
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Factories shut, fleeing fighters: How Iran’s sway in Syria collapsed
In an abandoned complex in the Syrian desert city of Palmyra, a piece of paper bearing a motivational slogan in Farsi is pinned to a rough wall. “No beginning is more beautiful than hello, and no wish ...
As People Are Abducted on Unpatrolled Streets, Syrians Demand Better Protection
When the new government took over, it dismissed the Assad regime police and other forces, leaving a security vacuum. Now, ...
Syria's Druze seek a place in a changing nation, navigating pressures from the government and Israel
Members of the small religious sect find themselves caught between two forces that many of them distrust: the new, ...
90,000 Palestinians attend the first Friday prayers of Ramadan in Jerusalem
Some 90,000 Palestinians have prayed at the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City under tight security by Israeli ...
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Wariness in Jerusalem as Palestinians mark first Friday of Ramadan
A limited number of older Palestinians were allowed into Jerusalem on the first Friday of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month, in a wary climate stirred by a standoff over the Gaza ceasefire and an ...
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Wariness in Jerusalem as Palestinians mark first Friday in Ramadan
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A limited number of older Palestinians ... "It's a great feeling," he said as he passed through the ...
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Israel Palestinians Ramadan
People break their fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan as they city in front of the Damascus gate, in the Old City ...
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‘Israel is the Iron Dome of the Druze in Syria,’ say Syrian Druze Residents
“Israel is the Iron Dome of the Druze in Syria, many want to be annexed Israel or have reciprocal relations with it,” a Druze cleric from Sweida told TPS-IL. The city of around 138,000 lies near the ...
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Syrian Jews return to Damascus for the first time in decades, hoping to build bridges
Thousands of Jews left Syria in 1992, when they were allowed to emigrate. The visit by a small delegation of U.S.-based ...
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Israel bombs ‘military targets’ in southern Syria, outside Damascus
On Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for the “demilitarisation” of southern Syria, saying Israel “will not allow the new Syrian army to move into territory south of Damascus”.