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Syria’s Islamist militant leader on Tuesday vowed to pursue former senior government officials responsible for torture and war crimes, a day after he began talks on the transfer of power following president Bashar Assad’s ouster. Assad fled Syria as the Islamist-led opposition alliance swept into the capital Damascus,
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he had ordered the Israeli military to “seize” a demilitarised buffer zone on the border with Syria after the overthrow of Bashar Assad in Damascus. The Israeli premier said a 50-year-old “disengagement agreement” between the two countries had collapsed and “Syrian forces have
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Close to 200 people were killed in brutal weekend violence in Haiti’s capital, the United Nations said on Monday, with reports that a gang boss orchestrated the slaughter of voodoo practitioners. The killings were overseen by a “powerful gang leader” convinced that his son’s illness was caused by
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The UK will decide “quickly” whether to remove the Islamist group HTS, which spearheaded the offensive to oust Syrian president Bashar Assad, from its list of terrorist organizations, a senior minister said on Monday. Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) is rooted in Syria’s Al-Qaeda branch, but broke ties with the
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South Korea’s opposition on Monday accused the ruling party of staging a “second coup” by clinging to power and refusing to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol over his declaration of martial law. Yoon plunged the country into political chaos with his attempt to scrap civilian rule, which lasted just
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Taiwan’s military set up an emergency response center and raised its alert level on Monday, saying China has set up seven zones of reserved airspace and dispatched naval fleets and coast guard boats to waters around the island. China, which claims democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, had
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Saudi Arabia has been communicating with all regional actors on Syria and is determined to do what is possible to avoid chaos following the ouster of President Bashar Assad, a Saudi official said on Sunday. “We are in constant communication with Turkiye and every stakeholder involved,” the official told Reuters,
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The fall of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government Sunday brought to a dramatic close his nearly 14-year struggle to hold onto power as his country fragmented amid a brutal civil war that became a proxy battlefield for regional and international powers. Assad’s downfall came as a stark contrast
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The Israeli military said Sunday it had deployed forces to a demilitarized buffer zone in southwest Syria abutting the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights after Damascus fell to militant forces. Israel had already said the day before, as the Islamist-led militants swiftly advanced across Syria, that its soldiers had entered the UN-patrolled
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Syria’s Bashar Assad boarded a plane in Damascus for an unknown destination early on Sunday, two senior army officers said, as rebels seized the city and ousted him from power after 24 years as president. Assad has not spoken in public since the sudden rebel advance a week ago,
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Lebanon’s Hezbollah group withdrew from the Syrian city of Qusayr along the border with Lebanon shortly before militant forces seized it, Syrian army sources said on Sunday. They said at least 150 armored vehicles carrying hundreds of fighters left the city in phases. Qusayr has long been a major
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South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol survived an impeachment motion in the opposition-led parliament on Saturday that was prompted by his short-lived attempt to impose martial law this week, after members of his party boycotted the vote. Only 195 votes were cast, below the threshold of 200 needed for the
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Yemen’s warring parties and beleaguered people cannot wait indefinitely for a roadmap to peace before the country slips back to war, the UN special envoy told AFP. Hans Grundberg insisted it was “still possible” to solve the conflict in impoverished Yemen, where Iran-backed Houthi militants control much of the
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Qatar is engaging with the incoming Trump administration on Gaza after sensing fresh momentum for ceasefire talks following the US election, Qatar's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani said on Saturday. The war in Gaza has been raging for over 14 months, with
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Australia’s government defended its record on curbing antisemitism on Saturday after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused it of anti-Israel policies, following an arson attack on a Melbourne synagogue. Netanyahu accused Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s center-left Labor government of encouraging crimes such as Friday’s attack on the
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Burkina Faso’s ruling military leader on Friday dismissed the country’s prime minister and dissolved the government, according to a presidential decree transmitted to AFP. The sacked premier had served at the head of three successive governments, surviving each reshuffle. No reason was given for the dismissal of Apollinaire