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Three wounded in new anti-Assad protest in Syria’s Sweida: Activists

Protesters in southwestern city have been taking to the streets to voice anger at gov’t over poor economic conditions.

Al Jazeera

3 wounded in southern Syria after shots fired at protesters at ruling party's local headquarters

Security guards from the Syrian president’s Baath party have fired shots at protesters trying to raid its local headquarters in southern Syria, wounding at least three people, activists said

The Independent UK

Study traces Turkey quake to interrupted ‘chat’ between fault lines

A new paper in Science used kinematic slip inversion and fault-property modelling to find that the Turkey-Syria earthquake could be traced to a seismic cascade over the east and the north Anatolian fault lines, and that these lines had also been in constant dialogue through the exchange of stress.

The Hindu

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A Symphony for a Common Man review – the diplomat who could have stopped the Iraq war

Story of expert who knew Saddam Hussein had no chemical weapons, but was ousted to give Bush and Blair a pretext for invading Iraq, plays out like a real-life version of George Clooney’s Syriana

The Guardian - UK

Syrian militia leader close to Assad attends Special Olympics meeting in Paris

Omar al-Aroub, the current second-in-command in a Syrian pro-regime militia accused of war crimes travelled to Paris in August 2023 and received an official welcome as head of the Syrian Paralympic Committee. Our team identified images of al-Aroub armed and in uniform, wearing the logo of the Ba’ath Brigades. A…

France 24

UN envoy urges donor support for battered Syria facing an economic crisis

The United Nations special envoy for Syria Sunday has urged donors not to reduce their funding as the war-torn country’s economic crisis spirals

The Independent UK

Shooting down drones isn’t enough to stop Jordan’s crystal meth problem

The use of the amphetamine captagon has been the focus of much government attention, but crystal meth use is increasing.

Al Jazeera

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US-backed Kurdish fighters report the capture of a senior Islamic State group financier in Syria

U.S.-backed Syrian fighters say they detained a senior official with the Islamic State group who was in charge of financing and arming sleeper cells

The Independent UK

Women in As-Suwayda are on the front lines of Syria's anti-Assad protests

Residents of the Syrian city of As-Suwayda have been out in the streets protesting the regime of President Bashar al-Assad for the past few weeks. Despite the security risks, women have been on the front lines. We interviewed three women to find out what the protests mean to them.

France 24

Lebanon’s PM says Syrian refugee influx could upset ‘demographic balance’

Thousands of Syrian refugees have crossed into Lebanon in recent months through porous border points.

Al Jazeera

Protests in Syria: could they bring down the Assad regime?

Twelve years after the Arab Spring uprising in Syria morphed into bloody civil war, a new wave of protests against President Bashar al-Assad’s brutal regime is gathering momentum, said Raja Abdulrahim in The New York Times.

The Week

Fears of escalation grow as dozens die in SDF-militia fighting in Syria

Arab tribesmen blame violence on ‘years-long discrimination’ by the SDF in northeast Syria.

Al Jazeera

Lebanese premier warns Syrian refugees pose a danger to the small nation's balance

Lebanon's caretaker prime minister is warning that Syrian refugees could become a threat to the small Mediterranean nation’s delicate demographic and sectarian balance

The Independent UK

‘It was horrible’: Syrian man deported from Greece tells of family’s trauma

Man who has lost landmark case against Frontex says family’s ordeal has had a huge impact

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‘The situation is tipping into the unknown’: Clashes between Kurdish forces and Arab tribes in Syria

Violent fighting between Kurdish forces backed by the United States and local Arab fighters has gripped the Syrian province of Deir Ezzor since August 27. A total of 71 people died in just one week of the fighting, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on September 4. Our Observer…

The National (Scotland)

'Glasgow is the best city': Syrian refugee family reveal joy as they open restaurant

A Syrian refugee family has opened their own restaurant in Glasgow after finding safety in the UK and years of hard work.

Al Jazeera

Displaced Syrians forced to build hideouts in the caves of Jabal al-Zawiya

Al-Zawiya’s caves shelter Syrian families whose homes have been under attack as regime forces hound Idlib.

The Independent UK

Fighting between rival US-backed groups in Syria could undermine war against the Islamic State group

The weeklong clashes between rival U.S.-backed militias in eastern Syria point to dangerous seams in the coalition that has kept a lid on the defeated Islamic State group for years

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The Independent UK

Syria's US-backed Kurdish forces hope to end weeklong clashes with militia in the 'next 24 hours'

Syria’s U.S.-backed and Kurdish-led forces are pushing deeper into the last stronghold of Arab tribesmen who have taken up arms against them in eastern Syria

Al Jazeera

Jordan shoots down drug-laden drone from Syria in ninth incident this year

The military says a drone carrying crystal meth is intercepted after crossing the country’s border with Syria.

The Independent UK

Cluster munition deaths in Ukraine pass Syria, fueling rise in a weapon the world has tried to ban

More than 300 people were killed by cluster munitions in Ukraine in 2022, surpassing Syria as the country with the highest number of deaths from the controversial weapons for the first time in a decade

The Independent UK

Protesters in southern Syria smash statue as they mark 2015 assassination of anti-government leader

Hundreds of angry protesters in southern Syrian have destroyed the statue of the country's late president as they marked the 2015 assassination of a prominent anti-government Druze leader

The Conversation

Russia in Africa: Prigozhin's death exposes Putin's real motives on the continent

The apparent assassination of Yevgeny Prigozhin in the crash of his private jet between Moscow and St. Petersburg represents an inflection point in Russian-African relations. Prigozhin, as leader of the notorious Wagner Group, had been the point man for Russia in Africa since Wagner first began operations on the continent…

The Conversation

'My home city was destroyed by war but I will not lose hope' – how modern warfare turns neighbourhoods into battlefields

It has been almost 12 years since I left my city. And I have never been able to return. Homs, the place I was born and grew up, has been destroyed and I, like many others, have been left in exile: left to remember how beautiful it once was. What…

The Guardian - UK

Imad Alarnab’s grilled marinated chicken with a tomato, roast fennel and dukkah salad – recipes

A Syrian recipe for chicken thighs that makes an easy midweek meal with leftovers – seek out the very best tomatoes you can find for the spiced salad to go with it

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