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Biden Picks Career Diplomat Michael Ratney as Envoy to Saudi Arabia

President Joe Biden intends to nominate career diplomat Michael Ratney to be US ambassador to Saudi Arabia, the White House said on Friday. Ratney previously served as the charge d'affaires at the US Embassy in Jerusalem and the US special envoy for Syria. Ratney, whose official biography says he speaks…

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Turkey Might Cooperate with Assad without Recognizing Him

Turkey said it was possible to cooperate with the Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad, on issues of terrorism and migrants without recognizing him. Turkey is cooperating with Lebanon, Jordan, and Iraq to secure Syrian refugees' voluntary and safe return. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that his country does not recognize…

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Father of killed Syria militants jailed after calling for ‘jihad by the sword’ at Brighton mosque

Two of Abubaker Deghayes’ teenage sons were killed while fighting for an al-Qaeda faction

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‘Economic blockade’: Syrian city punished for anti-govt protests

Druze-majority Sweida has stayed relatively neutral in Syria’s war, but recent protests have led to punishments.

Al Jazeera

Syrian Regime Opponents in Washington Await Disclosure of Assad Family’s Wealth

US political circles are awaiting the implementation by US President Joe Biden’s administration of a law on disclosing the sources of the wealth of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, his family, and his inner circle. The bill, which was approved by Congress at the end of 2021, is considered by Syrian…

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Erdogan Threatens to 'Crush the Heads' of Kurdish Units in Syria

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan pledged to expand the operations against the Kurdish forces in Syria, as was the case against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in northern Iraq. Speaking at the parliamentary group meeting of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) in Ankara, Erdogan announced that the…

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'We found nothing:' Thousands of IS victims still missing

Thousands of people taken captive by the Islamic State group remain missing years after the extremists' territorial defeat

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Anna Campbell: Dad's new bid to bring daughter killed fighting ISIS in Syria home

"My requests to the Turkish Government have gone unheeded"

Bristol Post

A joyous Syrian refugee graduates high school – Marlena Waldthausen’s best photograph

‘These three women fled to Germany from Syria. This is Malak’s joyful graduation day, which is being livestreamed to her family back home’

The Guardian - UK

Civilians still trapped as Mariupol evacuation fails, says Ukraine deputy PM

About 1,000 civilians remain trapped at a steel plant where Ukrainian forces are making their last stand in the besieged city of Mariupol, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday. Ukraine blamed Russian forces for failing to respect a temporary ceasefire. Follow the day’s events as they unfolded on our liveblog.…

France 24

Russia deploys up to 20,000 mercenaries in battle for Ukraine’s Donbas region

Moscow is luring mercenaries from Syria, Libya and elsewhere in effort to capture as much as possible of eastern Ukraine

The Guardian - US

Putin's Ukraine fiasco: What's next?

This war's not over, Clarke warns, but Russia's no longer a great power: It's a "gas station with nuclear weapons"

Salon

Ankara Announces Killing of 2 SDF Leaders in Northeastern Syria

Turkey announced on Monday the killing of two senior leaders of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), the largest component of the Washington-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). Two “terrorist” leaders of the YPG were eliminated in an air raid targeting their location in the al-Hasakah governorate, northeastern Syria, Turkish intelligence…

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New Demographics Alter Syria's Identity

The long years of war in Syria did not only leave behind millions of victims and vast destruction, but also created new demographic realities that changed the identity of areas nationwide. In the Syrian capital’s southern countryside lies a town, Sit Zaynab, which is home to the Shrine of Sayyida…

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Al Jazeera

Meet Abou Cocktail, Idlib’s juice king

A juice purist with his own twist starts again for a third time, bringing colour and flavour to northwestern Syria.

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Turkey Says its Warplanes Hit Kurdish Militant Targets in Northern Iraq

Turkish warplanes, helicopters and drones hit Kurdish militant targets in northern Iraq in an air and land operation that targeted facilities ranging from camps to ammunition stores, Turkey's defense ministry said on Monday. The military action was part of a long-running Turkish campaign in Iraq and Syria against the Kurdistan…

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Syrian Fighters Ready to Join Next Phase of Ukraine War

During a visit to Syria in 2017, Vladimir Putin lavished praise on a Syrian general whose division played an instrumental role in defeating insurgents in the country’s long-running war. The Russian president told him his cooperation with Russian troops "will lead to great successes in the future." Now members of…

The Independent UK

Syrian fighters ready to join next phase of Ukraine war

The next chapter of the war in Ukraine could see Russia bringing in greater numbers of battle-hardened fighters from Syria, observers say

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Australians being held in Syria are in conditions that 'meet the standard of torture', UN says

A letter from the UN Human Rights Council says 46 Australian citizens, including 30 children, are believed to be held in sordid conditions in Syrian detention camps.

The Guardian - AU

Australia failing its own citizens held in ‘sordid’ camps in Syria, UN experts say

Letter to government renews calls to repatriate citizens, including 30 children, held in conditions that ‘meet the standard of torture’

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US Military Changes Explanation of Attack on Base in Syria

The US military says explosions earlier this month on a base in eastern Syria that injured several US service members were not, as it originally reported, caused by artillery or another form of indirect fire. Instead, it is now believed the April 7 attack was carried out by the “deliberate…

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Russia Threatens Syria's Kurds with New Turkish Incursion

The Russian mediator in Syria warned Kurdish forces that Turkey would carry out an incursion should they reject Moscow's conditions to end the tensions between Qamishli and Damascus. Informed sources told the German news agency (dpa) that the mediator informed the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) that Turkey-backed Syrian opposition…

Nottingham Post

Footage of Nottinghamshire POW held over Ukraine resistance is ‘propaganda’, family say

He had previously fought against the so-called Islamic State in Syria

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Israel Targets Iranian Militias in Damascus Countryside

Head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) revealed that Israel targeted this week military sites in the vicinity of Damascus countryside. The strikes hit military targets for groups loyal to Iran and the Palestinian Liberation Army in Rakhla town, and near al-Madajen between the towns of Ambiya and…

Daily Record

Man who fled war-ravaged Syria to build new life in Scotland 'still experiences nightmares'

Mounzer Darsani descried the situation in his home country as 'like hell'.

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