What We Know About Ahmed al-Shara, Syria’s Interim President
The rebel chief who led the overthrow of the longtime dictator Bashar al-Assad has been declared the head of government for a ...
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Sharaa’s Rationality
Since Bashar al-Assad fled the country and Ahmad al-Sharaa arrived in Damascus, eventually being declared president, every speech and interview he has given, whether televised or in print, reflects a ...
France 2425d
Syria, Lebanon pledge 'long-term strategic relations' after Assad ouster
Syria was the dominant power in Lebanon for three decades under the Assad family, with president Hafez al-Assad intervening in its 1975-1990 civil war and his son Bashar al-Assad only withdrawing ...
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Assad’s fall opens window for Syrian refugees to head home − but for many, it won’t be an easy decision
More than 6 million Syrians have fled the country since 2011, when an uprising against the regime of Bashar Assad transformed ...
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Lebanon’s president names ICJ judge Nawaf Salam as PM-designate
Lebanon’s newly elected President Joseph ... following its devastating war with Israel and the toppling of the group’s ally Bashar al-Assad in Syria last month. Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr ...
UN Calls For 'Sustainable' Return Of Syrian Refugees
The UN's high commissioner for refugees called during a visit to Lebanon on Thursday for the "sustainable" return of Syrian refugees to their home country following the ouster of former president ...
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Who is Nawaf Salam, Lebanon’s PM-designate amid political shift?
the weakening of Iran and the fall of Bashar al-Assad‘s regime in Syria – have changed the political realities in Lebanon. Iran’s and al-Assad’s influence in the country has waned ...
France 2429d
Lebanon PM announces first visit to Syria since Assad's ouster
Lebanon's Prime Minister Najib Mikati will ... especially after Hezbollah fighters fought alongside Bashar al-Assad's forces in the Syrian civil war. Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem admitted that ...
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UN refugee chief calls for more help for Syria as refugees begin to return en masse
The United Nations refugee chief says some 200,000 refugees have returned to Syria from neighboring countries since the ...
Syria's al-Sharaa meets Lebanese PM in bid to improve long-fraught ties
Syria's de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa met Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati in Damascus on Saturday in a bid ...
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IDF continues targeting Syrian military capabilities in fresh attacks
and others have started to open up new ties with Julani to potentially integrate Syria more deeply into the West’s sphere of influence than Syria had been under Bashar al-Assad. Top UN and some ...
Files detail bid to contain fallout from Tulsi Gabbard meetings with Assad
Gabbard’s 2017 trip to Syria, where she met with authoritarian leader Bashar al-Assad, is expected to be a focus of questions from senators weighing her nomination to be director of national ...