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After more than a decade of civil war, committee members will choose transitional parliamentSyria is holding its first parliamentary elections since the fall of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad, in a tentative step towards democratic polls that have been…
Vote counting has begun in some districts in Syria’s first parliamentary elections since the overthrow of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad, a landmark moment in the Middle Eastern country’s fragile transition after nearly 14 years of war.
Syrians are voting indirectly, and President Ahmed al-Shara is appointing a third of the lawmakers. Still, some see this as a step forward after decades of dictatorship.
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Talks between Israel and Syria have “hit a last-minute snag” over the former’s demand that it be allowed a secure conduit on Syrian territory, several Reuters sources have stated.
Syria’s interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, has called for the lifting of international sanctions against Damascus in his first address to the United Nations General Assembly, becoming the country’s first head of state to speak at the gathering in nea…
The United Nations has announced that one million Syrian refugees have returned to their country since the fall of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad last December, while warning that funding for humanitarian operations is falling.
In his first U.N. address, Ahmed al-Shara, a former rebel, highlighted his efforts to rebuild Syria and its institutions.
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Lt. Gen. Derek France said that the US was caught off guard by an Israeli strike on Qatar in part because sensing capabilities were focused on other targets like Iran, adding the Israeli attack “wasn’t something that we expected.”