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KAREEM CHEHAYEB,

KAREEM CHEHAYEB,

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Syrian leader signs constitution that puts the country under an Islamist group's rule for 5 years

Syria’s interim president has signed a temporary constitution that leaves the country under Islamist rule for five years during a transitional phase

Syrian leader signs constitution that puts the country under an Islamist group's rule for 5 years
Crime|MidEast|Political|World

Syria's government signs a breakthrough deal with Kurdish-led authorities in the northeast

Syria’s interim government has reached a deal with the Kurdish-led authority that controls the country’s northeast

Syria's government signs a breakthrough deal with Kurdish-led authorities in the northeast
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Syria's worst violence in months reopens wounds of the civil war

An ambush on a Syrian security patrol by gunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar Assad escalated into clashes that a war monitor estimates have killed more than 1,000 people over four days

Syria's worst violence in months reopens wounds of the civil war
Economy|MidEast|Political|World

War-torn Lebanon forms its first government in over 2 years to end deadlock

Lebanon’s new prime minister has formed the country’s first full-fledged government since 2022

War-torn Lebanon forms its first government in over 2 years to end deadlock
Crime|MidEast|World

Another car bomb in a northern Syria city kills at least 19, mostly women

A hospital worker says at least 19 people are dead after the latest car bomb exploded on the outskirts of a northern Syrian city

Another car bomb in a northern Syria city kills at least 19, mostly women
MidEast|Political|World

22 reported killed in Lebanon before agreement to extend deadline for Israeli forces to withdraw

Israeli forces in southern Lebanon have opened fire on protesters demanding their withdrawal in line with a ceasefire agreement, killing at least 22 and injuring scores

22 reported killed in Lebanon before agreement to extend deadline for Israeli forces to withdraw
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Israeli military sets up roadblocks in southern Lebanon and announces it won’t withdraw by deadline

The Israeli military has set up roadblocks across border towns and roads in a strategic valley in southern Lebanon

Israeli military sets up roadblocks in southern Lebanon and announces it won’t withdraw by deadline
Economy|MidEast|World

Syria's economic pains far from over despite Assad's ouster

Despite Syrian President Bashar Assad's ouster last month in a lightning insurgency, the country’s dire economic conditions haven't changed

Economy|MidEast|Political|World

Saudi foreign minister makes first official trip to Lebanon in a decade after years of strained ties

Saudi Arabia’s top diplomat has visited Lebanon for the first time in a decade following years of strained relations between the oil-rich kingdom and the tiny Mediterranean country

Saudi foreign minister makes first official trip to Lebanon in a decade after years of strained ties
Crime|Health|MidEast|News|World

Drone attack kills 80 and wounds 240 at a packed Syrian military graduation ceremony, official says

Syria’s health minister says a drone attack that hit a packed military graduation ceremony in the central city of Homs has killed 80 people and wounded 240

Drone attack kills 80 and wounds 240 at a packed Syrian military graduation ceremony, official says
MidEast|News|Political|World

As Israel battles Hamas, all eyes are on Hezbollah, the wild card on its northern border

Will Lebanon’s heavily armed Hezbollah militia join the Israel-Hamas war

As Israel battles Hamas, all eyes are on Hezbollah, the wild card on its northern border
MidEast|News|World

Hezbollah destroys Israeli surveillance cameras along the Lebanese border as tension soars

Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group said Monday it has started destroying surveillance cameras on several Israeli army posts along the border as tension rose following the Israel-Hamas war that began Oct.7

Hezbollah destroys Israeli surveillance cameras along the Lebanese border as tension soars
News|World

5 Hezbollah fighters are killed as tensions flare along the border between Lebanon and Israel

Clashes have flared along the Lebanon-Israel border, killing five Hezbollah fighters

5 Hezbollah fighters are killed as tensions flare along the border between Lebanon and Israel
News|Political|World

Protesters in Lebanon decrying Gaza hospital blast clash with security forces near U.S. Embassy

Hundreds of protesters have clashed with Lebanese security forces in the Beirut suburb of Aukar near the United States Embassy

Protesters in Lebanon decrying Gaza hospital blast clash with security forces near U.S. Embassy
MidEast|News|Political|World

Hezbollah and Israel exchange fire and warnings of a widened war

Hezbollah has announced the deaths of five more militants as clashes along the Lebanon-Israel border intensify

Hezbollah and Israel exchange fire and warnings of a widened war
MidEast|News|World

Lebanese PM visits troops at border with Israel while Saudi Arabia evacuates families of diplomats

Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister has visited troops deployed near the border with Israel, and Saudi Arabia is evacuating families of diplomatic staff because of clashes between Hezbollah militants and Israeli troops

Lebanese PM visits troops at border with Israel while Saudi Arabia evacuates families of diplomats
MidEast|News|World

Leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah holds talks with senior Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad figures

The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group has met with top Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad officials

Leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah holds talks with senior Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad figures
MidEast|News|World

Israeli troops briefly raid northern Gaza to 'prepare' for an expected full-scale incursion

Israeli troops and tanks launched an hourslong ground raid into northern Gaza overnight

Israeli troops briefly raid northern Gaza to 'prepare' for an expected full-scale incursion
MidEast|News|World

Gaza receives largest aid shipment so far as deaths top 8,000 and Israel widens military offensive

Nearly three dozen trucks entered Gaza in the largest aid convoy since the war between Israel and Hamas began, but humanitarian workers say the assistance still falls desperately short of needs after thousands of people broke into warehouses seeking food

Gaza receives largest aid shipment so far as deaths top 8,000 and Israel widens military offensive
News

Watchdog group says attack that killed videographer 'explicitly targeted' Lebanon journalists

A watchdog group advocating for press freedom has said that the strikes that hit a group of journalists in southern Lebanon earlier this month, killing one, were targeted rather than accidental and that the journalists were clearly identified as press

Watchdog group says attack that killed videographer 'explicitly targeted' Lebanon journalists
MidEast|News|World

Amnesty International says Israeli forces wounded Lebanese civilians with white phosphorus

The human rights group Amnesty International says civilians in southern Lebanon were injured this month when Israeli forces hit a border village with shells containing white phosphorus

Amnesty International says Israeli forces wounded Lebanese civilians with white phosphorus
News|World

Trapped in hell: Palestinian civilians try to survive in northern Gaza, focus of Israel's offensive

Weeks after ordering northern Gaza’s 1.1 million inhabitants to evacuate south, the Israeli army is intensifying its bombing of the area that stretches to the wetlands of Wadi Gaza, in the central strip

Trapped in hell: Palestinian civilians try to survive in northern Gaza, focus of Israel's offensive
MidEast|News|World

Gaza has lost telecom contact again, while Israel's military says it has surrounded Gaza City

Gaza has lost communications in its third total outage of the Israel-Hamas war, and Israel’s military says it has encircled Gaza City and divided the besieged coastal strip into two

Gaza has lost telecom contact again, while Israel's military says it has surrounded Gaza City
News|World

Civilians fleeing northern Gaza's combat zone report a terrifying journey on foot past Israeli tanks

What was once Gaza’s busiest thoroughfare has become a terrifying escape route for Palestinian civilians running for their lives from heavy combat

Civilians fleeing northern Gaza's combat zone report a terrifying journey on foot past Israeli tanks
MidEast|News|World

US envoy flies to Beirut in a surprise visit, says Washington doesn't want Gaza war to expand

A top U.S. envoy said in Beirut that Washington doesn’t want the ongoing war in Gaza to expand to Lebanon after a Lebanese woman and her three granddaughters were killed in an Israeli strike two days ago

US envoy flies to Beirut in a surprise visit, says Washington doesn't want Gaza war to expand

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