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Dozens killed as Islamic State attacks in Syria and Iraq

Kurdish-led forces in Syria killed 23 Islamic State militants including foreigners in clashes after the jihadist group attacked a prison in the northeastern city of Hasaka on Thursday, a military source in the Kurdish-led forces said.

Reuters

Syria: Hunger Knocks On Parliament’s Door

A member of Syria’s parliament has warned that some of his colleagues were facing hunger, amid a severe living crisis which is expected to worsen with a government decision to increase fuel prices. On his Facebook page, MP Nasser Youssef Al-Nasser called on Prime Minister Hussein Arnous to resign, pointing…

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Kurdish security forces killed, IS fighters freed in major Syrian prison break

The Islamic State group on Friday attacked a prison in Syria housing fellow jihadists in one of the group's most significant attacks since its self-declared "caliphate" was defeated in the war-torn country nearly three years ago.

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Is There a Link Between Syria and Ukraine?

Geneva is hosting two meetings on Friday. The first between US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, to discuss Ukraine, and the second between UN Envoy to Syria Geir Pedersen and US Official Ethan Goldrich to review the Syrian situation and propose a “step for…

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Monitor: ISIS Attacks Syria Prison, Frees Militants

ISIS attacked a Kurdish-run jail in northeast Syria on Thursday, freeing fellow militants, a war monitor reported without specifying how many escaped, AFP reported. A car bomb hit the entrance of the Ghwayran prison and a second blast went off in the vicinity before ISIS militants attacked Kurdish security forces…

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Islamic State militants attack prison in Syria's al-Hasaka, U.S.-backed SDF says

Islamic State militants attacked a prison in Syria's al-Hasaka in an attempt to free prisoners belonging to the group who had mutinied, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said in a statement on Thursday.

Reuters

Snowstorm brings more misery for Syrians at IDP camps

Dozens of families in an IDP camp in northwestern Syria have been trapped for two days amid a winter storm.

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Shelling Kills 4 People in Syria's Afrin

At least four people were killed and more than a dozen injured in shelling on the Syrian city of Afrin and a separate rocket attack on its outskirts on Thursday, medics at a local hospital and civil defense rescue workers said. They were the latest in years of attacks on…

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Group: 4 killed in rocket attack on northern town in Syria

Syrian rescuers and a war monitor say a rocket attack on a town controlled by Turkey-backed opposition fighters in northern Syria killed four civilians and wounded over a dozen people

The Independent UK

Far Right activist Tommy Robinson pursued by creditors for £2million

Tommy Robinson is being pursued by creditors to the tune of £2million after he was ordered to compensate a Syrian schoolboy he wrongly accused of attacking a girl.

Evening Standard

Lebanese Museum Returns Artifacts from Syria's Palmyra

Five Roman artifacts from the ancient city of Palmyra, a site damaged during Syria's decade-long conflict, were returned to Damascus on Thursday by a private Lebanese museum where they had been on display since 2018. The limestone statues and carved funerary stones dating from the Roman second and third centuries…

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Lebanese museum returns artefacts from Syria's ancient city of Palmyra

Five Roman artefacts from the ancient city of Palmyra, a site damaged during Syria's decade-long conflict, were returned to Damascus on Thursday by a private Lebanese museum where they had been on display since 2018.

Reuters

Tommy Robinson pursued for estimated £2m debt after bankruptcy claim

Syrian schoolboy who won libel case against anti-Islam activist has not seen penny of £100,000 damages

The Guardian - UK

Shelling kills four people in Syria's Afrin

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Storm blankets Syrian tented camps in snow, at least one child dead

At least one child was killed in northern Syria this week when a storm blanketed tented camps in snow and brought freezing temperatures, compounding the misery of thousands of people displaced by the Mediterranean country's decade-long war.

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Saudi Crown Prince Meets with Russia's Special Presidential Envoy for Syrian Settlement

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, met in Riyadh on Thursday with Russia's Special Presidential Envoy for Syrian Settlement Alexander Lavrentiev, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported. The envoy conveyed the greetings of President Vladimir Putin to the Crown Prince, who in…

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Harsh Winter Hits Syria, Lebanon and Jordan, Taking Toll on Refugees

Harsh winter weather with heavy snowfall and freezing temperatures hit Syria, Lebanon and Jordan on Wednesday, worsening the plight of thousands of Syrian refugees displaced in the region. Temperatures are expected to hit an all-time 40-year low, reaching minus 14 degrees Celsius and even lower, according to aid organizations, including…

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Congress Calls on US Administration to Keep Fighting to Free Tice from Syrian Captivity

The US Congress is exerting more pressure on the US Administration to continue pushing for the release of Austin Tice, a US journalist who is held hostage in Syria. US Senators Patrick Leahy, Robert Menendez, Jim Risch, and John Cornyn sent a letter to President Joe Biden urging his administration…

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Aid Cuts Threaten Hospitals in Syria's Idlib

The crowded hospital in Darkush in Syria's northwest treats around 30,000 patients every month, for free -- but now foreign aid cuts are threatening its future. Already dwindling funds have caused dire shortages of medicine and equipment in this and other clinics in the Idlib region. The United Nations has…

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Germany begins trial of Syrian doctor for crimes against humanity

The accused, who arrived in Germany in 2015, has been charged with 18 counts of torture and one count of murder.

The Independent UK

Putin hosts Iranian president for Kremlin talks

Russian President Vladimir Putin has hosted his Iranian counterpart, hailing their the two countries’ cooperation on international issues, including the Syrian crisis

The Independent UK

Syrian doctor goes on trial in Germany for crimes against humanity

The unnamed doctor is accused of torturing and killing prisoners at government-run facilities in Syria

The Independent UK

Man guilty of promoting ‘jihad by sword’ in mosque speech

Abubaker Deghayes had denied intending to encourage terrorism in his speech to around 50 people, including children and young adults.

The Independent UK

Impoverished Lebanese, Syrians struggle to survive cold

A snowstorm in the Middle East has left many Lebanese and Syrians scrambling to find ways to survive

Asharq Al-Awsat

Doctor Goes on Trial in Germany Accused of Torture in Syria

A court in Germany began hearing a case Wednesday against a Syrian doctor accused of crimes against humanity for torturing and killing inmates at a government-run prison and two military hospitals in his home country. Federal prosecutors say the doctor, identified as Alaa M.

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