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Gaza war deepens Israel's divides

Gaza war deepens Israel's divides

As it grinds on well into its twenty-second month, Israel's war in Gaza has set friends and families against one another and sharpened existing...

06.08.2025 3

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By Dave Clark

Israel wants world attention on hostages held in Gaza

Israel wants world attention on hostages held in Gaza

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised Monday to update Israel's Gaza war plan, a day before a UN Security Council meeting on the fate of hostages...

05.08.2025 3

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By Dave Clark

In ruined homes, Palestinians recall Assad's torture

School lessons ended in Syria's biggest Palestinian refugee camp on October 18, 2012, judging by the date still chalked up on the board more than a...

23.12.2024 2

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By Dave Clark

Defeat of Syria's Assad stirs a mother's bitterness

In the villages above the Syrian port city of Tartus they once hailed the sons who died fighting in Bashar al-Assad's service as martyrs. But...

20.12.2024 2

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By Dave Clark

Israeli strikes leave Syrian ammo dump a smoking ruin

A Syrian bunker complex outside the port of Tartus was ablaze and rocked by explosions Monday just hours after what a war monitor and locals said...

17.12.2024 2

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By Dave Clark

Syrian jails were an extortion machine funding ousted rulers

Ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad's vast network of prisons was not simply a tool of his brutal crackdown on opposition to his rule, it was a...

17.12.2024 4

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By Dave Clark

Back in Damascus, rebel leader confident of post-Assad unity

Syrian rebel leader Riad al-Asaad told AFP on Sunday he was confident that the myriad of factions which helped topple Bashar al-Assad after years...

16.12.2024 3

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By Dave Clark

Hostage hunter fears ousted Syria rulers still hiding US reporter Tice

A former prisoner spearheading a private effort to help find captive US journalist Austin Tice is concerned that deposed Syrian leader Bashar...

16.12.2024 2

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By Dave Clark

Syrian pubs cautiously reopen after Islamist victory

The citizens of Damascus largely celebrated the fall of Bashar al-Assad's hated regime with joy, after 13 long years of brutal civil war. But the...

15.12.2024 2

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By Dave Clark

Syria's rebel victors expose ousted government's drug trade

The dramatic collapse of Bashar al-Assad's Syrian regime has thrown light into the dark corners of his rule, including the industrial-scale export...

14.12.2024 3

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By Dave Clark

Former prisoner revisits Syrian airbase ordeal

The surrender of the Mazzeh air base outside Syrian capital Damascus by Bashar al-Assad's forces triggered a round of Israeli air strikes designed...

12.12.2024 3

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By Dave Clark