Dec 11, 2024
Mohammed al-Bashir is an electrical engineering graduate who had been administering a sliver of rebel-held territory in northwestern Syria before he was tasked this week with heading Syria’s interim g...
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Dec 11, 2024
Bashar al-Assad had barely settled into his new quarters in Russia before the argument broke out over who can take the credit for ousting him, ending 53 years and two generations of brutal family rule...
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Dec 11, 2024
Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany called for a confidence vote in Parliament on Wednesday, taking the first formal step toward disbanding the German government and leading to snap elections likely to ...
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Dec 11, 2024
Rebels are asserting control in Damascus as Israel and other countries carry out military operations.Follow live updates here.As a rebel alliance tries to create a transitional government for Syria, a...
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Dec 11, 2024
Current time in:Damascus, Syria Dec. 11, 3:14 p.m.LiveUpdated Syria Live Updates: U.S. Tries to Manage Fallout From al-Assad’s OusterU.S.-backed fighters said they had reached a truce with Turkish-sup...
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Dec 11, 2024
With the end of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria, the task of tallying the cost in human lives of a nearly 14-year-long civil war is continuing. Death toll estimates from the conflict are a...
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Dec 11, 2024
It seemed a slam dunk: a proposal to rename an avenue running through the center of Romania’s capital that honored a World War II fascist functionary convicted of war crimes.Diana Mardarovici, the Buc...
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Dec 11, 2024
The luxury jet touched down in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, on a mission to collect hundreds of pounds of illicit gold.On board was a representative of a ruthless paramilitary group accused of et...
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Dec 11, 2024
South Korean police raided the office of President Yoon Suk Yeol on Wednesday as part of an investigation into whether his declaration of martial law last week, which plunged the country into a politi...
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Dec 11, 2024
For over a decade, tens of thousands of people living in Syria would disappear without explanation. They were picked up off the street. Plucked from university classes. Yanked out of stores as they bo...
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