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Syrian President Assad Backs Putin on Ukraine

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad has called his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and supported his position regarding Ukraine, the Syrian presidency said in a statement on Friday amid the ongoing Russian invasion. Syria has been a staunch ally of Moscow since Russia launched a military campaign in Syria in 2015 that…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Syrian president Assad backs Putin on Ukraine - Syrian presidency

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad has called his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and supported his position regarding Ukraine, the Syrian presidency said in a statement on Friday.

Reuters

Lessons Should Be Learned in Ukraine from Situation in Syria

The Syria crisis continues unnoticed, said Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, the chemical weapons expert and an adviser to the Union of Syrian Medical Charities.

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Ukraine's forces no match for Russia in manpower, gear and experience

Ukrainian forces are defending against an invasion on three sides by a Russian military that is bigger, better armed and steeped in recent combat experience from Syria's civil war.

Reuters

Russia's invasion of Ukraine prompts Syria to cut spending

Economically-battered Syria has decided to cut spending in an effort to reduce the impact of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, concerned that oil and wheat prices could sharply increase

The Independent UK

Syrians in Idlib stand by Ukraine after Russia attack

Many Syrians empathise with Ukrainians given their experience of surviving Russian shelling and air raids.

Al Jazeera

Canada responds to claims it's not helping citizens in Syria

A Canadian government spokesman says officials are working with Syrian Kurdish authorities and international organizations to gather information and help Canadian citizens detained in Syria

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Lavrov, Pedersen Discuss Syria

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has met in Moscow with the UN's special envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen, who is getting ready for a new round of negotiations of a committee representing the Syrian government and the opposition over draft constitutional reforms. "We are all interested in the swiftest settlement…

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The west stood back and watched in Syria – it must not do the same in Ukraine

It’s time for the US and its allies to show their steel in the face of Putin’s aggression, says chemical weapons expert Hamish de Bretton-Gordon

The Guardian - UK

3 Syrian Soldiers Killed in Israeli Strike Near Damascus

Three Syrian soldiers were killed Thursday in an Israeli airstrike near the capital Damascus, according to Syria's state media. It was the fourth reported time this month Israel has launched strikes inside Syria, keeping up a campaign against pro-Iranian forces supporting the Damascus government in the more than decade-old civil…

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Israel Urges Diplomatic Solution in Ukraine, Avoids Mention of Russia

Israel called on Wednesday for a peaceful resolution of the Ukraine crisis and said it was concerned about the country's large Jewish community but avoided any mention of Russia, a major player in the conflict in Syria. "Israel shares international concern over the steps in eastern Ukraine and the severe…

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Israel urges diplomatic solution in Ukraine, avoids mention of Russia

Reuters

Lebanon Foils 3 Planned Suicide Attacks, Interior Minister Says

Lebanese security forces have foiled plans by militants linked to ISIS to carry out three suicide attacks in Beirut's southern suburbs, the interior minister said on Wednesday. The plans for the attacks involved rocket-propelled grenades and gun fire as well as suicide vests rigged with explosives that would have killed…

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Egypt Stresses 'Comprehensive' Settlement Guaranteeing Syria's Sovereignty over All its Territories

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said on Monday that a comprehensive political settlement to the Syrian crisis should ensure Syria’s full sovereignty over all its territories. Shoukry received a telephone call from UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen for talks on Syria. Pedersen briefed Shoukry on the ongoing efforts…

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Syria Reports Israeli Missile Attack Near Golan Heights

Israel fired several surface-to-surface missiles toward Syrian military positions in the country´s south early Wednesday causing material damage, state media reported. State TV quoted an unnamed Syrian military official as saying that the missiles were fired from Syria´s Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, and struck areas around the nearby town of Quneitra.…

Foreign Affairs

ISIS’s Leadership Crisis

A Vacancy at the Top Threatens the Group’s Global Operations

The Independent UK

Rights group: Canada blocking return of citizens from Syria

A prominent rights group says Canadian authorities are preventing a Canadian woman and a child detained in a camp in Syria from returning home to get life-saving medical treatment

Reuters

Syria supports Putin's recognition of Ukraine breakaway regions

Syria supports the decision of its ally Russia to recognise two breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine, Syrian state TV quoted the Syrian foreign minister as saying on Tuesday.

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Al Jazeera

Syria backs Russian recognition of east Ukraine breakaway regions

Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad says Syrian gov’t ‘will cooperate’ with the two Moscow-backed separatist-held regions.

Asharq Al-Awsat

In Turkish-Funded Syria Camps, Tents Give Way to Homes

Syrian mother of four Maryam al-Hussein was relieved to have a roof over her head as she moved from a tent camp into a housing complex built with Turkish support. "When I first heard that we were moving into a house, I couldn't believe it," the 28-year-old widow told AFP…

The Independent UK

Poverty, fear drive exodus from Syria's one-time IS capital

Raqqa, the former de facto capital of the Islamic State group, is now free but many of its residents are fighting to leave

Asharq Al-Awsat

Hezbollah Running Secret Prison Near Syria's Palmyra

The Lebanese Hezbollah party has recently set up a new secret prison in Syria, revealed the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Director of the UK-based monitor Rami Abdul Rahman said the facility was set up west of Palmyra city in Homs' eastern countryside in central Syria. He told Asharq Al-Awsat…

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Syria Awards License to 3rd Cellular Operator

The Syrian government Monday awarded a telecommunications company a license to become the third cellular operator targeting areas of poor coverage in the war-torn nation, state media reported. Telecommunications Minister Iyad Khatib told reporters that Wafa Telecom will improve the telecommunications sector in the country that was hard-hit by nearly…

The Conversation

Islamic State: death of leader is big step towards becoming a different kind of terrorist organisation

A “proto-state”, a “socio-political movement, the ”beast“ – all names given to a single group that, at its height, seemed to embody the west’s worst nightmare.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Damascus Bookstores Pine for Customers as Economic Crisis Bites

In one of the open bookstores in the Syrian capital, Damascus, only a handful of customers wander through the shelves and flip through books for sale, while the owner puts up a sign explaining that books sold are non-refundable and non-exchangeable. For many Syrians, buying a book has become a…

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