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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…

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The U.S. will keep HTS on the list of terrorist organizations for the remainder of President Biden’s tenure, leaving the decision to Donald Trump, officials say...Read More

SAYEDA ZAINAB, Syria —  In the shadow of the gold-domed Sayeda Zainab shrine, six miles south of Damascus, lie the abandoned remains of what was once the de facto headquarters of Iran’s “axis of resistance,” an informal alliance of militant groups created to counter American and Israeli influence in the Middle…