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Türkiye Announces ‘Voluntary’ Return of Over 500,000 Syrian Refugees

Türkiye’s deputy Interior Minister Ismail Catakli refuted on Monday reports about the compulsory deportation of Syrian refugees after being forced to sign voluntary return forms. He affirmed that his country seeks to provide a safe environment for their return in the areas it is clearing in northern Syria. Catakli announced…

Asharq Al-Awsat

‘Closed’ village on Lebanese-Israeli boundary welcomes visitors after 22 years

Mindsets are changing, says resident of Ghajar, a Syrian Alawite village in occupied Golan Heights

The Guardian - UK

Record Number of Foreigners Repatriated from Syria Camps this Year

Repatriations of foreign woman and children affiliated to ISIS from detention camps in northeast Syria hit a record high in 2022, Kurdish authorities said on Tuesday. Thousands of foreigners including women and children had gone to Syria to live in ISIS’ so-called "caliphate" until 2019, when US-backed Kurdish forces snatched…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Record number of foreigners repatriated from IS camps in Syria this year

Repatriations of foreign woman and children affiliated to Islamic State from detention camps in northeast Syria hit a record high in 2022, Kurdish authorities said on Tuesday.

Reuters

Police keeping an eye on repatriated Syria cohort

Police counter-terrorism teams are monitoring four women and 13 children returned from detention camps in Syria.

The New Daily

Police investigating returned Syria cohort

Australian Federal Police is investigating whether repatriated Australian women and children from a Syrian detention camp have broken any domestic laws.

AAP

Syria Cholera Outbreak Worsened by Regime, Türkiye, Says HRW

Human Rights Watch Monday accused the government in Damascus and Türkiye of exacerbating Syria's deadly cholera outbreak by restricting aid and water-flow to the country's Kurdish-held northeast. Syria has recorded 81 deaths and more than 24,000 suspected cases of the extremely virulent disease since September, according to the World Health…

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Russia accused of killing 10 people as 30 rockets launched on displacement camps in Syria

Syrian forces backed by Russian warplanes attacked a camp for internally Displaced People in Syria’s northwestern city of Idlib yesterday

Daily Mirror

Group Warns of Rampant Violence in Syria Camp of ISIS Families

A sprawling camp in northeastern Syria housing tens of thousands of women and children linked to the ISIS group is witnessing pervasive violence, exploitation and lawlessness, an international aids group said Monday. Doctors Without Borders also said that countries with citizens held in the detention center of al-Hol in Syria’s…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Group warns of rampant violence in Syria camp of IS families

An international aid group is warning that a sprawling camp in northeastern Syria that houses tens of thousands of women and children linked to the extremist Islamic State group is witnessing pervasive violence, exploitation and lawless

The Independent UK

At least 9 dead after Russian jets hit Syria's rebel-held Idlib, rescuers say

Russian jets bombed camps near Syria's northwestern city of Idlib on Sunday, killing at least nine civilians in a flare-up of attacks on the last opposition-held bastion, witnesses and rescuers said.

Reuters

Monitors say 6 killed in Syria's shelling of tent settlement

First responders and opposition war monitors say Syrian government forces have shelled a tent settlement housing families displaced by the country’s conflict in the rebel-held northwest, killing at least six people and wounding dozens

The Independent UK

Monitors Say 9 Killed in Syria's Shelling of Tent Settlement

Syrian government forces shelled tent settlements housing families displaced by the country’s conflict in the rebel-held northwest early Sunday, killing at least nine people and wounding dozens, opposition war monitors and first responders said. The shelling was the latest violation of a truce reached between Russia and Türkiye in March…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Scores of Syrian Refugees Head Home from Lebanon

Scores of Syrian refugees headed home Saturday from eastern Lebanon in the second convoy in less than two weeks as Beirut attempts to organize a mass refugee return to the war-torn country. Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said the “voluntary return” Saturday included 330 Syrians who left from the eastern…

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The Independent UK

Scores of Syrian refugees head home from crisis-hit Lebanon

Scores of Syrian refugees have headed home from eastern Lebanon in the second convoy in less than two weeks as Beirut attempts to organize a mass refugee return to the war-torn country

Asharq Al-Awsat

Syria’s Tragedy… A Bottomless Abyss

Every time we think that the Syrian crisis has hit rock bottom, we discover that we’re wrong. The latest cholera outbreak in the war-torn nation and refugee camps in neighboring countries is yet another evidence that the Syrian crisis is a bottomless abyss. This was a Western diplomat’s comment after…

Al Jazeera

Russian mercenary force Wagner opens first official headquarters

The European Union has accused the Wagner Group of serious human rights abuses in Ukraine, Africa, Syria, and Libya.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Kőrösi: Cholera in Lebanon Won’t Become Epidemic

The number of cholera cases in Lebanon has exceeded 1,400 with over 17 deaths according to the latest official figures, while the President of the United Nations General Assembly, Csaba Kőrösi, said Wednesday in a statement to Asharq Al-Awsat he was very confident that cholera will not become a major…

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Al Jazeera

Cricket: The unlikely sport helping Syrian refugees in Lebanon

Syrian children in Lebanon pick up sport not traditionally played in the Arab world as part of educational project.

The Independent UK

Conflict, crisis fuel cholera surge across Mideast hot spots

Thousands of cholera cases have swept across Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq in recent weeks

ABC News

Bitter debate erupts over repatriation of Australian families from Syrian detention camps

Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil accuses the opposition of hypocrisy over the repatriation of Australian women and children from Syrian detention camps.

Reuters

Jordan seeks more coordination with Russia to bring stability to southern Syria

Jordan and Russia have agreed to step up coordination in tackling instability in southern Syria, which Amman blames on Iran-linked militias and multi-billion dollar drug smuggling across its border, Jordan's foreign minister said on Thursday.

Daily Mirror

US plane pilot humiliates Russia by drawing penis in sky with flight path near army base

There has not been confirmation on whether the jet was on a mission to refuel fighter planes or to simply mock the Russians, after the extremely rude flight path drawing was revealed

Bangkok Post

Captagon connection: How Syria became a narco state

BEKAA VALLEY, Lebanon: A decade of appalling civil war has left Syria fragmented and in ruins but one thing crosses every front line: a drug called captagon.

Daily Mirror

Teacher dubbed 'Empress of ISIS' who led female death squad including children jailed

During her sentencing, the court heard harrowing accounts from Allison Fluke-Ekren's own children, who described the ISIS leader as a “monster’” who tortured them for pleasure

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