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Dozens of military vehicles at the airfield near a Russian-made Ilyushin Il-76 military transport plane on 15 December
Russia moving equipment at Syrian bases, satellite images show
LONDON — Russia is moving a large amount of military equipment in Syria, signaling preparations for a partial withdrawal, analysts say.Satellite images reveal a build-up of military vehicles at a Russian-controlled port and airbase in western Syria.Transport aircraft also appear to have arrived and departed the country in recent days.BBC Verify has also geolocated videos showing extensive columns of Russian military trucks moving north toward these bases.The Institute for the Study of War suggests this indicates preparations for a reduction or complete withdrawal of Russian forces.The Washington-based think tank added that moving military vehicles to its bases may be a precautionary measure while Moscow negotiates with the new government in Damascus.A map showing Hmeimim air base and the...
December 19, 2024

Russia moving equipment at Syrian bases, satellite images show

Turkish President Erdoğan hosts Lebanese PM Mikati in Ankara
Erdoğan: Turkey and Lebanon united on approach to regional challenges
ANAKRA — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan welcomed Lebanon’s Prime Minister Najib Mikati in the Turkish capital, Ankara, on Wednesday where the leaders held bilateral talks.Mikati informed Erdoğan of the situation on the ground in Lebanon, which has seen many of its cities attacked as Israeli attacks intensified against the Lebanon-based Hezbollah armed group.Mikati outlined in the closed-door meeting with the Turkish leader, that Israel, despite a ceasefire agreement, is continuing to violate Lebanese territory.“The international community must continue to pressure Israel to strictly comply with the ceasefire,” said Erdoğan, speaking in a joint press briefing after the meeting.Erdoğan continued saying “[Israel must] compensate for the damage it has caused in Lebanon....
December 19, 2024

Erdoğan: Turkey and Lebanon united on approach to regional challenges

Geir Pedersen
UN envoy urges 'credible, inclusive' transition in Syria
DAMASCUS — After concluding a visit to Damascus and meeting the new administration, UN envoy to Syria Geir Pedersen, said that the country needs "a political transition that will be credible, inclusive and include the broadest range of the Syrian society and parties."Talking to reporters on Wednesday, Pederson made clear that the UN wants the transition process to take place under the resolution adopted in 2015. The resolution was made at the time to help negotiate a political settlement between the government of now-deposed President Bashar Assad and the opposition."There is a lot of hope that we can now see the beginning of a new Syria, a new Syria that is in line with the Security Council Resolution 2254, will adopt a new constitution that will ensure that it is a...
December 19, 2024

UN envoy urges 'credible, inclusive' transition in Syria

Palestinians look at the aftermath of an Israeli bombing in Nuseirat refugee camp in the Gaza Strip in June
Hamas expresses optimism for Gaza deal even as obstacles remain
GAZA — Hamas has become the latest party to the Gaza hostage and ceasefire negotiations to voice optimism about the prospects of reaching a deal, amid a flurry of diplomatic activity in the region.In an official statement on Tuesday, Hamas said reaching an agreement was “possible.” A Hamas source also added that the talks were “positive and optimistic.”Top US, Israeli, Qatari and Egyptian officials have all touted progress in the negotiations in recent days. While officials caution that a deal is neither sealed nor guaranteed, the upbeat language and recent diplomatic activity point to significant momentum toward reaching a deal.The CIA director, Bill Burns, is expected to travel to Qatar this week to participate in further talks on a ceasefire in Gaza, a US official and a second...
December 18, 2024

Hamas expresses optimism for Gaza deal even as obstacles remain

Syrian fighters sit in a street as they guard a police station in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024
HTS gains a foothold on key sectors in Syria only 10 days after toppling Bashar al-Assad
DAMASCUS — The Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) rebel group in Syria is consolidating its power just 10 days after the country’s long-time autocratic president, Bashar al-Assad was dramatically removed from power.Key sectors of the country are slowly being dragged under their control with the latest two being the military and police forces.HTS which led a coalition of militias in a surprise offensive late November leading to al-Assad’s downfall, has emerged as the top entity in Syria. In the last 10-days, they’ve appointed a new interim government, and urged Syrians abroad, some displaced for over a decade, to return home.Life in Damascus is steadily returning to normal. Schools have been reopening and social services are being restored. Foreign embassies are also slowly reopening, the...
December 18, 2024

HTS gains a foothold on key sectors in Syria only 10 days after toppling Bashar al-Assad

A masked opposition fighter carries a flag of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in the courtyard of the Umayyad Mosque in the old walled city of Damascus, Syria, 2024
Syria's HTS leader says rebel groups will be 'disbanded' to join one army
DAMASCUS — Syria's rebel factions will be "disbanded" and trained to join the "ranks of the defense ministry" said the leader of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group, which led rebel fighters to Damascus and toppled Syrian president Bashar al-Assad's regime.Ahmed al-Sharaa, previously known as Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, added that all fighters would be "subject to the law" as he sought to reassure minorities in Syria that the group would protect citizens and continue state institutions in the multi-ethnic country.“Syria must remain united,” al-Sharaa said, according to the group’s Telegram channel. “There must be a social contract between the state and all religions to guarantee social justice”.In a separate meeting, al-Sharaa said that...
December 17, 2024

Syria's HTS leader says rebel groups will be 'disbanded' to join one army

The BBC first interviewed Baraa after she fled the Old City of Homs as a child nearly a decade ago
Old wounds and new energy in Syria's 'capital of the revolution'
HOMS — "Even now, I look back and wonder how we survived this nightmare," Baraa quietly reflects.Now 20 years old, the university student joined the joyous celebrations engulfing the streets of Syria last Sunday at the end of Bashar al-Assad's rule.Her two sisters, Ala and Jana, nod in agreement as we sit, squeezed together on this cold winter's day, on an old lumpy sofa in their humble home in Homs.Their white-bearded father, Farhan Abdul Ghani, sitting cross-legged on the floor, chimes in. "We did not want war. We did not want a forever president who builds monuments to himself."Nearly a decade ago, we first met in the worst days of that war, waged in their president's name.Baraa, a deeply traumatised little girl whose eyes darted wildly back and forth,...
December 17, 2024

Old wounds and new energy in Syria's 'capital of the revolution'

A Russian soldier stands next to a Russian military convoy as it moves along a road near the Mediterranean town of Tartus, Syria, Monday Dec. 16
Syria's new government says there's no reason for Russian troops in country
DAMASCUS — The spokesperson for the political department of Syria’s new transitional government has called on Russia to reconsider its presence in the country now that their ally, President Bashar al-Assad, has been overthrown.A convoy of Russian military vehicles was spotted traveling from the coastal city of Latakia, and were headed southward towards the city of Tartus.Russia operates two military bases in Syria: The Khmeimim Air Base near the port city of Latakia and the Tartus naval base on the Mediterranean coast. They are considered among the Kremlin’s most strategically important military outposts.The Tartus site is particularly critical, providing Russia with its only direct access to the Mediterranean Sea and a base to conduct naval exercises, station warships and even host...
December 17, 2024

Syria's new government says there's no reason for Russian troops in country

Many of those killed on Sunday were in a school-turned-shelter in the southern city of Khan Younis
Israeli strikes kill 50 in Gaza, Hamas-run health ministry says
GAZA — More than 50 people were killed in Israeli air and ground attacks across the Gaza Strip on Sunday, according to local medics and rescuers.They said children, a cameraman who worked for the Al Jazeera TV network and personnel from the Civil Defense agency were among the dead.The Israeli military said it targeted sites used by Hamas and the allied armed group Palestinian Islamic Jihad.The Hamas-run health ministry said the deaths meant the number of Palestinians killed in Gaza during the 14-month war between Israel and Hamas had surpassed 45,000.The ministry does not make a distinction between combatants and civilians, but it reported in October that 29,980 children, women and elderly were among the identified fatalities.The figures are often disputed by the Israeli government,...
December 17, 2024

Israeli strikes kill 50 in Gaza, Hamas-run health ministry says

Israeli soldiers cross the security fence moving towards the so-called Alpha Line that separates the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights from Syria, in the town of Majdal Shams
Israeli airstrikes in Syria 'most violent' since 2012, monitor says
LONDON — Israeli airstrikes in Syria are the "most violent" since 2012, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.According to the data from the organization that has been monitoring the war in Syria for over a decade, Israel has struck its neighbor more than 450 times since Bashar al-Assad fled last weekend, destroying Syria's navy and countless air bases and military equipment along Syria's coast.Most recently, Israeli missiles have pounded Syrian missile warehouses and former army sites 75 times in attacks beginning on Saturday night near the cities of Hama, Homs, and the capital of Damascus, according to the group.Last week, Israel's military also seized control of the summit of Mount Hernon — part of a demilitarized buffer zone created as part of...
December 16, 2024

Israeli airstrikes in Syria 'most violent' since 2012, monitor says

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