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Franco-Syrian author wins career gong at Angoulême comics festival

The 50th Angoulême International Comics Festival, held every year in south-western France, was officially inaugurated on Wednesday with a ceremony to grant the coveted Grand Prix d'Angoulême. This year's award for career excellence went to Franco-Syrian author Riad Sattouf.

Radio France Internationale

UN Special Envoy: Syria Remains Deeply Divided

The United Nations Special Envoy to Syria, Geir Pedersen, confirmed on Wednesday that Syria remains tattered and deeply divided, facing massive economic hardships of “epic proportions.” Pedersen determined six priorities to proceed with a political process based on Resolution 2254, led by the UN, which requires unity from all parties…

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Commander of Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS Visits Al-Tanf Base After Drones’ Attack

The Free Syrian Army (FSA) revealed that an official from the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS held talks with leaders from the FSA on military coordination between both sides. This comes days after a drones-attack that targeted the Al-Tanf base. The talks held by Maj. Gen.

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How ancient seeds from the Fertile Crescent could help save us from climate change

Some of the tens of thousands of seeds stored at a facility in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley may hold keys to helping the planet's food supply adapt to climate change. Many seeds were saved from Syria's war.

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Türkiye: No Normalization with Damascus at Syrians Expense

Türkiye reaffirmed it will not take any decision regarding the normalization of ties with the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria so long that it could damage the lives of Syrians in opposition-run territory in the north. Defense Minister Hulusi Akar stressed that his country will not take any decision…

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Syrian Defense Minister Visits Tehran

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on Tuesday affirmed his country’s support to the Syrian people during the reconstruction process. His remark was made as he received Syrian Defense Minister Ali Mahmoud Abbas. Raisi described the relations between the two countries as “strategic”, according to the state-run ISNA news agency. “Relations between…

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France: More women, children returned from IS camps in Syria

France has repatriated another group of women and children from former Islamic State group-controlled areas of Syria

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UNRWA Appeals for $1.6 Bln in Funding

The UN agency that delivers basic services to millions of Palestinian refugees appealed on Tuesday for $1.6 billion in funding after its head warned it was struggling to fulfill its mandate due to spiraling costs and shrinking resources. Established in 1949 following the first Arab-Israeli war, UNRWA provides public services…

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France repatriates women and children from jihadist camps in Syria

France has repatriated 15 women and 32 children held in jihadist prison camps in Syria, the foreign ministry said. This is the third major repatriation of French citizens from the Middle Eastern country in similar circumstances.

Radio France Internationale

France repatriates 47 nationals from northeastern Syria camps

The repatriation involved 32 children and 15 women who will undergo medical and social monitoring, French officials say.

Al Jazeera

France Repatriates 15 Women, 32 Children from Syrian ISIS Camps

France repatriated 15 women and 32 children held in ISIS prison camps in northeastern Syria, the French foreign ministry said Tuesday. "The minors were handed over to the services in charge of child assistance and will be subject to medical and social monitoring," the ministry said in a statement.

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Russia, Syria restore Syrian air base for joint use

Russia and Syria have restored the al-Jarrah military air base in Syria's north to be jointly used, Russia's Defence Ministry said late on Monday.

Reuters

Captagon trade: How Syria became a narco-state

Captagon is a synthetic drug that has turned Syria into a narco-state. The illicit industry behind this amphetamine is estimated to be worth billions of dollars, with over 400 million tablets seized in the Middle East in 2021. So who is profiting from this trafficking? Where is the drug produced?…

France 24

US Military Says It Captured Two ISIS Members in Syria

American forces have captured two ISIS members during an air and ground assault in eastern Syria, the US military's Central Command said in a statement released on Sunday. The raid happened on Saturday, according to Col. Joe Buccino, a Central Command spokesperson, adding that one civilian received "minor injuries" during…

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Jury to decide fate of Brooklyn man accused of abandoning family to fight for ISIS and train snipers

He’s accused of leaving behind his life and family in Brooklyn to fight and train snipers for ISIS — and now a Brooklyn jury will decide his fate.

Reuters

U.S. military says it captured two Islamic State members in Syria

American forces have captured two Islamic State members during an air and ground assault in eastern Syria, the U.S. military's Central Command said in a statement released on Sunday.

Evening Standard

Filmmaker accuses ISIS bride Shamima Begum of ‘sham remorse’ amid BBC podcast series

The BBC has released a podcast investigating Shamima Begum’s journey to joining ISIS as a schoolgirl

Reuters

Thirteen killed after building collapses in Syria's Aleppo -state media

Thirteen people were killed when a residential building collapsed in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Sunday and rescue workers were searching for people believed still buried under the rubble, state media said.

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Daily Mirror

Britain's 'Jihadi Jack', 28, to be repatriated to Canada from Syrian prison camp

The Oxfordshire man said he was an "enemy of Britain" after travelling in 2014 to Syria to allegedly fight with ISIS as a teenager

The Independent UK

Building collapse in Syrian city of Aleppo leaves 10 dead

Syrian state media says a building has collapsed in a neighborhood in the northern city of Aleppo, killing at least 10 people, including one child

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Building Collapse in Syrian City of Aleppo Leaves 16 Dead

A building collapsed in a neighborhood in Syria’s northern city of Aleppo early Sunday, killing at least 16 people, including one child, and injuring four others, state media reported. The five-story building housing about 30 people is in the Sheikh Maksoud neighborhood under the control of the US-backed Kurdish-led Syrian…

Daily Mirror

At least 10 killed including children as five-storey building collapses in Syria

Children and women died as a result of the collapse in the Sheikh Maqsood neighbourhood of Aleppo city, in the country's northwest

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Türkiye Kills 11 Kurdish YPG Members on Anniversary of Olive Branch Operation

Turkish-Syrian border areas witnessed this week a military escalation, marking the five-year anniversary of Türkiye’s Operation Olive Branch aimed to clear members affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) from the Afrin region. On Saturday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Turkish forces and their proxies shelled the vicinity…

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Syria, Türkiye Normalization Takes Shape along Aleppo-Latakia Highway

Open and secret political and security contacts have expanded in recent days to choose the best path to normalize relations with Damascus. Syria and Türkiye have held security meetings in the Latakia countryside with the aim of reopening the Aleppo-Latakia highway. A Kurdish delegation from Qamishli even visited the Syrian…

Al Jazeera

Canada says it will repatriate 23 of its citizens from Syria

Move comes after the citizens, currently detained in camps for ISIL family members in Syria, challenged Ottawa in court.

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