Syria

ISTANBUL/ANKARA - Talks aimed at ending a 40-year-old militant conflict have fostered peace hopes in Turkey but the precarious situation of Kurdish forces in Syria and uncertainty about Ankara's intentions have left many Kurds anxious about the path ahead. Abdullah Ocalan, jailed head of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant…

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Foreign Affairs State of the Union: The move echoes both Egypt, which is in the process of building a new capital city, and the lightning fall of Damascus in Syria. An Iranian government spokeswoman has announced that the country will move its capital to the southern coastal region of Makran.…

CAIRO: An Israeli air strike killed three Palestinian men in Gaza on Monday as they tried to gather firewood, medics said, with no sign of progress in renewed talks on sustaining a ceasefire deal between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas. In the latest bloodshed to underline the fragility of…

OMDURMAN: Shelling by Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces killed six civilians, including two children, in Khartoum’s twin city of Omdurman, a doctor said Monday, as the army inched closer to the capital’s presidential palace. Sunday’s attack also wounded 36 civilians, half of them children, the doctor at Al-Nao Hospital said. The…

During a roundtable discussion hosted by the JCFA and attended by ‘The Post,’ Hazem Alghabra, a former senior US State Department adviser, suggested Israel extend a message of peace to Syria. By OHAD MERLIN JANUARY 9, 2025 16:50 Updated: JANUARY 10, 2025 14:14 Hazem Alghabra and JCFA President Dan Diker.…

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken agreed Thursday in talks in Rome with European counterparts on the need to encourage stability in Syria, officials said, as Turkey threatens Kurdish forces in the war-torn country. Blinken was on the last leg of what likely is his final trip as the top…

TEHRAN - Iran’s top-ranking general in Syria has contradicted the official line taken by Iran’s leaders on the sudden downfall of their ally Bashar al-Assad, saying in a remarkably candid speech last week that Iran had suffered a major defeat but would still try to operate in the country. An…

A worker tears down the pictures of Syria's Bashar al-Assad, former Syrian President Hafez al-Assad, Lebanon's late Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at a gas station in Nubl, a Shi'ite village seized by rebels, in rural Aleppo, Syria, December 11, 2024. REUTERS/Umit Bektas…

A man on a bicycle passes by a sign reading "I love Aleppo," adorned with flags representing the new Syrian opposition, in Aleppo, Syria, January 8, 2025. REUTERS/Karam al-Masri Since the Islamist group Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) expelled the regime of Bashar al-Assad and assumed control in Syria, its neighbors…