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Despite truce, Lebanese from devastated Naqura cannot go home

All signs of life have disappeared from the bombed-out houses and empty streets of the Lebanese border town of Naqura, but despite a fragile...

25.01.2025 6

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By Laure Al Khoury

Lebanon's new PM says reaching out to all sides to save country

Lebanon's new Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said Tuesday that he was reaching out to all political persuasions to help "rescue" his crisis-hit country...

15.01.2025 4

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By Laure Al Khoury

Lebanon set for yet another attempt at electing president

Lebanese lawmakers are due to meet on Thursday to elect a president, but analysts say that even with key political player Hezbollah weakened by...

08.01.2025 3

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By Laure Al Khoury

Ex-prisoners back in Syria's cells 'of despair'

This time he was there by choice. Mohammed Darwish was back in a jail that was run by Syria's feared intelligence services -- and Bashar al-Assad...

16.12.2024 10

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By Laure Al Khoury

Loyal no more: Syrians turn from once-omnipotent Baath party

Maher Semsmieh turned in his rifle on Thursday at an office of Syria's Baath party, more than 60 years after its oppressive rule in Syria began,...

13.12.2024 4

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By Laure Al Khoury

Relatives of Syria's disappeared seek closure in Damascus morgues

In the corridors of Damascus's main hospitals, thousands of families have gathered for the foreboding mission of trying to find the bodies of loved...

12.12.2024 4

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By Laure Al Khoury

In Damascus, life resumes without Assad

In Damascus, life is cautiously returning to normal as residents step out of their homes into a Syria transformed by the ousting of long-time...

12.12.2024 9

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By Laure Al Khoury