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Fearing for safety, Syria's Alawites who fled to Lebanon have no plans to return
More than 30 members of one family spoke to Al-Monitor after fleeing into northern Lebanon from Syria amid a spasm of ...
In Netanyahu’s new Middle East, Syria could become Israel’s biggest strategic gain
Just hours after Islamist rebels ousted longtime Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in December, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ...
Germany reopens embassy in Syria in cautious thaw with Islamist leaders
Germany reopened its embassy in Syria on Thursday, establishing official diplomatic ties with the new leadership in Damascus ...
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Violence in Gaza, Yemen and Syria Tests Middle East – and the Trump Administration
Just a few weeks ago, the Middle East seemed in a rare moment of relative calm: ceasefires were holding in Gaza and [...] ...
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Syria's new government seizes 3 million Captagon pills in Aleppo
Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It ...
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What we know about the deadly violence in Syria
Haid Haid, a Syrian columnist and a consulting fellow with the Middle East and North Africa program at the Chatham House ...
U.S., Israel interested in Sudan, Somalia and Syria for resettlement of Gazans, sources say
The Trump administration and Israel approached the governments of Sudan and Somalia, and have also been interested in Syria, ...
Syria's interim president signs deal with Kurdish-led SDF to merge forces
The Kurdish-led and U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, which controls much of Syria's oil-rich northeast, signed a deal ...
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In Netanyahu’s new Middle East, Syria could become Israel’s biggest strategic gain
“There is a real danger that eventually that will kick in to create a spiral of escalation,” Charles Lister, a senior fellow and head of the Syria Initiative at the Middle East Institute in ...