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Celebrated Syrian author, poet and screenwriter Khaled Khalifa dies aged 59

Khalifa was one of Syria’s most acclaimed contemporary novelists, though his six novels were banned in the country

The Guardian - UK

‘The next days were hell’: how the Yom Kippur war realigned the Middle East

Fifty years on from the surprise attack Egypt and Syria launched on Israel, what was its legacy for the region – and what was the effect on the soldiers?

The Guardian - UK

How the Yom Kippur war led to a new order within Israel and beyond

Egypt and Syria’s joint attack ushered in a new dynamic around the fracture lines in the Middle East

The Guardian - UK

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Picture Chicago: 17 of the best Sun-Times photos from this week in news

Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling was sworn in as the city’s top cop, United Auto Workers members went on strike in Illinois, and a 12-foot puppet of a Syrian refugee girl walked along Navy Pier.

Chicago Sun-Times

Hundreds welcome 12-foot tall Syrian refugee puppet Little Amal at Navy Pier: ‘It was very emotional’

Little Amal is making her way across America to inspire hope and draw attention to the plight of many refugees around the world, half of whom are children.

Chicago Sun-Times

Slow Syrian repatriation risk to IS defeat, court told

Slow repatriation of women and children from Syrian refugee camps poses a risk to fully defeating Islamic State, lawyers for a group of Australians say.

AAP

Day of the Dead ofrendas honor earthquake victims, murdered women in Pilsen museum exhibit

The National Museum of Mexican art is featuring its 37th annual Día de Muertos exhibition.

Chicago Sun-Times

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‘No arrangement’ to repatriate Australian women and children in Syrian camps, court hears

Government maintains it has no effective control of the Australians’ detention despite official correspondence citing plans to bring them home

The Guardian - AU

Security concerns 'red herring' in Syrian repatriations

A trial over the repatriation of 11 Australian women and 20 children, who are being detained in Syrian refugee camps, has begun in the Federal Court.

AAP

Morning Mail: Court clash over Australians in Syria camp, potential flu breakthrough, Trump goes ‘full fascist’

Activists hope to force government to bring home Australians stuck in ‘dire’ camp; scientists think cell discovery could aid vaccine development

The Guardian - AU

US military captures key Islamic State militant during helicopter raid in Syria

The U.S. military says it has captured an operator for the Islamic State extremist group during a helicopter raid in northern Syria

The Independent UK

Australian women and children in squalid Syrian camp are being detained unlawfully, federal court told

Save the Children, representing 12 women and their 21 children, argues the government has the power, and an obligation, to bring them home

The Guardian - AU

US-backed Kurdish forces impose curfew in eastern Syria after new clashes with rival Arab militia

U.S.-backed Kurdish-led forces have imposed a curfew in parts of eastern Syria after new clashes erupted with rival Arab militiamen

The Independent UK

China, Syria Deepen Ties With ‘Strategic Partnership’

President Xi Jinping met Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad in Hangzhou ahead of the opening of 19th Asian Games — the latter’s first trip to China in nearly two decades

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Bank asks refugee jobseeker for police check from Syria

A refugee jobseeker who applied for an accountant position was asked by a top Australian bank to provide a police check from Syria, the nation he escaped from.

Al Jazeera

Syrian IDPs in Idlib recount deadly shelling by Assad forces

An elderly man and a woman were killed, two others wounded in a rocket attack on the outskirts of the city of Sarmin.

Zenger

Qatar Withdraws $30 Million Monthly Aid To Hamas Amidst Rising Tensions

The move threatens to worsen the humanitarian situation in Gaza as Hamas faces financial strain.

The Independent UK

Cyprus calls on the EU to rethink Syrian safe zones for eventually repatriating Syrian migrants

Cyprus has formally called on the European Union to re-evaluate which areas of Syria can be declared as safe zones that are free from armed conflict so that Syrian migrants can eventually be repatriated there

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Al Jazeera

China to help reconstruct war-battered Syria

Bashar al-Assad visit to China part of a bid to end more than a decade of diplomatic isolation under Western sanctions.

The Independent UK

Syria and China will announce strategic partnership as Asian Games diplomacy kicks off

Chinese leader Xi Jinping said that China and Syria will announce a strategic partnership as he kicked off a series of diplomatic meetings ahead of the opening of the Asian Games on Saturday

Zenger

Israel Strikes Palestinian Militants In Syria, Escalating Tensions

Airstrikes near Beit Jinn and Hama target Palestinian Islamic Jihad and chemical weapons facility

Al Jazeera

Israel army says it hit Syrian ‘structures’ in Golan Heights

The announcement came after two people were reportedly killed in an Israeli attack near the Syrian town of Beit Jinn.

The Independent UK

Top US Air Force official in Mideast worried over possible Russia-Iran 'cooperation and collusion'

Iran’s supplying of bomb-carrying drones to Russia could see Moscow help Tehran’s program become more lethal, raising risks across the wider Middle East

The Guardian - UK

British journalist held by police at Luton airport for five hours without arrest

Matt Broomfield, who has worked in Kurdish-controlled north-east Syria, had his phone and laptop seized when he was questioned last month

The Independent UK

Syria's Assad to head to China as Beijing boosts its reach in the Middle East

The office of Syria's President Bashar Assad says he will head to China later this week in his first visit to Beijing since his country’s conflict started 12 years

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