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Capital and largest city of Syria
Ahmed al‑Sharaa, leader of the rebel coalition that toppled Bashar al‑Assad in December 2024, was appointed Syria’s transitional (interim) president on 29 January 2025 and has led the interim governme...
J. Christopher "Chris" Stevens was a career U.S. diplomat and the U.S. Ambassador to Libya from May 22, 2012, until his death in the coordinated attacks on U.S. facilities in Benghazi on September 11–...
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), dominated by Fatah, has historically received political, military and diplomatic support from Arab states (notably Syria and Egypt at different times), san...
Donald Trump’s October 2019 announcement to withdraw U.S. troops from northeastern Syria is portrayed in the provided analyses as a defining, contested moment that reshaped his military legacy by crea...
France is not a straightforward "ally" of Syria in the traditional sense of a long-standing strategic partner; relations were broken after 2011 when Paris condemned the Assad regime and closed its emb...
Reliable, country-by-country case studies of systemic human rights abuses and the mixed results of accountability efforts are documented in recurring public sources — most notably the U.S. Department ...
The recent fighting in Aleppo ended with Syrian government forces taking control of the last Kurdish-held neighbourhoods—most notably Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafieh—and buses evacuating the final SDF fi...
Donald Trump presided over an operational shift in Syria that combined a more kinetic air campaign and looser battlefield discretion with episodic political reversals and retained elements of previous...
Documented instances of Israeli covert action abroad range from bungled false‑flag bombings in 1954 (the Lavon Affair/Operation Susannah) to long clandestine assassination and sabotage campaigns again...
Britain created the political space for the Hashemite family to rule what became Transjordan in the aftermath of World War I, placing Emir Abdullah (a son of Sharif Hussein) in Amman in 1921 under Bri...
Early Quranic manuscripts cluster into a handful of traditions: early Hijazi fragments (including the Birmingham folios and the Ṣanʿāʾ palimpsest), the companion codices (e.g., Ibn Masʿūd, Ubayy ibn K...
Chris (“J. Christopher”) Stevens had a long, region-focused U.S. diplomatic career before his final assignment in Libya, with early roots in the Peace Corps, legal training, and Foreign Service postin...
The assembled evidence indicates the in the 2025 peace negotiations referenced, with U.S.-facilitated talks between Israel and Syria held in Paris and a U.S. delegation meeting Syrian interim Presiden...
The claim that the Syrian government maintained control over major cities in 2025 rests on three linked mechanisms: , , and . Reporting across the supplied sources shows evidence of eviction raids and...
Israel is simultaneously advancing new defensive technologies while conducting military operations in Gaza and strikes near Syria, producing sharp domestic debate and rising international criticism. R...