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The Secret History of the Five Eyes by Richard Kerbaj review – secrets and spies

A murky alliance between intelligence agencies, among them the UK and US, is revealed in a scandalous tale of mistrust and misjudgment, including British teenager Shamima Begum being smuggled into Syria by a Canadian spy

The Guardian - UK

Salih Muslim: Divorce Is Inevitable Between the Syrian Regime, Türkiye

Salih Muslim, the co-chairman of the Democratic Union Party, the main party of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, has rejected the PYD having any links to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Muslim, however, admitted that the PYD and PKK, which is blacklisted as a terrorist organization in…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Australians in Syrian detention camps to be brought home by federal government

The federal government is preparing to bring home more than 20 women and 40 children who have been in detention camps since the fall of Islamic State in 2019 after verifying their identities on a trip to Syria earlier this year.

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Australia to launch rescue mission for women and children trapped in Syrian detention camps

Exclusive: More than 20 Australian women and more than 40 children related to Islamic State combatants held in al-Hawl And Roj camps

The Guardian - AU

Syrian Ambassador to Lebanon Says Syria ‘Serious’ About Facilitating Refugees’ Return

Syrian Ambassador to Lebanon Ali Abdel Karim Ali announced on Friday his country's 'serious' endeavors in addressing the return of Syrian refugees, noting that Syria does not obstruct their return back home. The Ambassador said that Damascus has informed the concerned countries about that. “Syria is serious about receiving them…

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Washington Accuses Damascus of Retaining Hidden Chemical Weapons Stockpile

The United Nations High Representative for Disarmament Affairs called on Syrian authorities to again provide clarifications over 20 significant areas to completely resolve its chemical weapons file in line with Security Council Resolution 2118. Syria must change its attitude and cooperate fully with the body charged with verifying its compliance…

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Russian Strikes in Syria Decreased since Ukraine War

Russian strikes in Syria have decreased since it invaded Ukraine, resulting in fewer deaths, a war monitor said Friday, seven years into Moscow's intervention in the Middle Eastern country. A total of 241 people have been killed by Russian strikes in Syria during the past year, mostly fighters from the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Several PFI members travelled to ISIS strongholds to join jihad: Officials

According to documents prepared by the National Investigation Agency (NIA), there were a few cases of youths getting killed or arrested at foreign soil and later being deported back to India

The Hindu

Erdogan: Turkish Intelligence Contacts with Damascus will Determine 'Ties Roadmap'

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that his country’s contacts with the Syrian regime were currently limited to the intelligence service, based on which Türkiye would set the road map for its relations with Damascus. Erdogan repeated the threat of a military operation in northern Syria, calling on Russia and…

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PFI’s alleged links in Turkey and Qatar being probed

The outfit’s alleged links with extremist elements abroad being looked into, says an official

The Hindu

PFI module had planned attacks on Jews visiting Tamil Nadu hill station, say NIA officials

The module comprising about 15 youths and their associates from southern States had also conspired to attack High Court judges, senior police officers and Muslims belonging to Ahmediya sect with the intention of committing terror acts within India, according to a NIA investigation

The Hindu

Czech police nab smugglers in new border checks as migrant flows spike

Czech police chasing a vanload of migrants fired warning shots on Thursday as they began checks on the border with Slovakia to combat a sharp rise in people, mostly Syrians, heading illegally to western Europe.

Reuters

Syria and the Kurds

Kurdish leader has said that one of their negotiating counterparts in Damascus questioned whether the registration of Kurdi, the Kurdish language, in the Syrian constitution could one day lead to establishing whistled languages in Syria. The Syrian-Kurdish negotiator said there shouldn’t be an issue with whistled languages if they could…

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US says military killed 12 civilians in 2021, sparking scepticism

Monitors have regularly questioned the Pentagon’s annual tally, which is perenially far below independent counts.

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Syrian Opposition Delegation in US, Calls Against Normalizing Ties with Regime

A delegation from the National Coalition for Opposition and Revolutionary Forces of Syria and the Syrian Negotiations Commission held talks with Deputy Representative of the United States to the United Nations Richard Mills in Washington on Tuesday. Discussions touched on the latest developments in the political process in Syria. The…

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Children Return to Bombed-Out School in Syria Frontline Town

In a frontline town divided by regime and opposition forces in northwest Syria, students have returned to classrooms in a bombed-out building with no glass in the windows, no doors, desks, chairs or electricity. Girls carrying pink backpacks play alongside boys with blue ones in the courtyard of their school…

Asharq Al-Awsat

‘Don’t Leave Me’: Survivor Recounts Lebanon Boat Sinking

Jihad Michlawi, 31, has struggled to makes ends meet as a chef in crisis-hit Beirut. The Palestinian had never considered taking a perilous journey across the Mediterranean Sea to Europe until friends who successfully did so convinced him. Now, he's one of dozens of survivors from a capsized migrant boat…

Reuters

In Syria, mounting cholera cases pose threat across frontlines

A cholera outbreak that has claimed 29 lives in Syria is posing a danger across the frontlines of the country's 11-year-long war, stirring fears in crowded camps for the displaced who lack running water or sewage systems.

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Landmines, cluster bombs remain a deadly threat in Syria

The front lines of northwest Syria may be quieter, but death still waits for civilians from the bombs left behind.

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Syria’s Security Services Arrest Survivors of Lebanon’s ‘Death Boat’

Director General of the General Authority of al-Basel Hospital Dr. Iskandar Ammar said all the survivors of the migrant boat sinking off Syria’s coast have been discharged from the hospital after their health improved. His remarks came in light of reports that said Syrian security agencies had detained several young…

Reuters

In Syrian north, women protest over death of Iran's Amini

Hundreds of women protested in Kurdish-controlled northern Syria on Monday over the death of an Iranian Kurdish woman in the custody of Iran's morality police, with some cutting their hair and burning headscarves in an echo of demonstrations in Iran.

Al Jazeera

Cholera death toll rises to 29 in Syria as outbreak spreads

Health Ministry says rapid assessment testing confirmed 338 cases since the outbreak was first recorded last month.

Reuters

Syrian health ministry says cholera death toll rises to 29

Syria said on Monday that 29 people had died of cholera in what the United Nations has called the worst outbreak of the disease in the war-torn country for years.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Syria Cholera Death Toll Rises to 29

A cholera outbreak in several regions of Syria has killed 29 people, the Syrian health ministry said on Monday in what the UN has called the worst outbreak in the war-torn country for years. Rapid assessment testing confirmed 338 cases since the outbreak was first recorded last month, with the…

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Iraqi-Syrian Meeting Discusses Humanitarian Conditions in al-Hol

Iraqi Foreign Minister Fouad Hussein has discussed in New York with his Syrian counterpart Faisal Mekdad the bilateral ties and the humanitarian conditions at al-Hol camp in Syria. In a statement, the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs revealed that both sides discussed means to bolster joint cooperation in a manner…

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