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Austin Tice went missing in Syria in 2012
Biden says US hostage Austin Tice is alive in Syria
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has said the US will try to bring home one of the longest-held American hostages following the sudden collapse of the Syrian government.Speaking at the White House, Biden said the US believes Austin Tice is alive, but they must pinpoint his location in the war-torn country.Tice, a freelance journalist, is thought to have been taken captive close to Damascus on 14 August 2012 while he was covering the country's civil war.On Sunday, rebel fighters seized the Syrian capital in the culmination of a lightning offensive launched two weeks ago. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has fled the country.Biden said Assad's exit was a "fundamental act of justice" after decades of repression, but also "a moment of risk and uncertainty" for the...
December 09, 2024

Biden says US hostage Austin Tice is alive in Syria

Abu Mohammed al-Golani, leads the biggest rebel faction and is poised to chart the country's future, speaks at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus Sunday Dec. 8, 2024
Syria looks to carve new future after abrupt end to Bashar al-Assad's 24-year reign
DAMASCUS — A mountainous task ahead as Syria, battered by almost 14 years of division and fighting under a brutal civil war looks ahead to shape its new future after the end of Bashar al-Assad's 24-year rule.As the dust settles on the dramatic downfall of Syria's long-time ruler Bashar al-Assad, the country's political future is beginning to tentatively take shape.The leader of Syria’s largest insurgent group, the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) called on fighters of all factions to return to their bases and lay down their arms, as Syria prepares to enter its next chapter.“Tomorrow morning when institutions start to conduct their business of services, security and policemen, I hope from everyone who carries a weapon to go to his base and to commit to his division, battalion or...
December 09, 2024

Syria looks to carve new future after abrupt end to Bashar al-Assad's 24-year reign

Israeli forces near Majdal Shams in the occupied Golan Heights on Sunday
Israel seizes Golan buffer zone after Syrian troops leave positions
JERUSALEM — Israel's prime minister has announced its military has temporarily seized control of a demilitarized buffer zone in the Golan Heights, saying the 1974 disengagement agreement with Syria had "collapsed" with the rebel takeover of the country.Benjamin Netanyahu said he had ordered the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to enter the buffer zone and "commanding positions nearby" from the Israeli-occupied part of the Golan."We will not allow any hostile force to establish itself on our border," he said.A UK-based war monitor said Syrian troops had left their positions in Quneitra province, part of which lies inside the buffer zone, on Saturday.On Sunday, the IDF told residents of five Syrian villages inside the zone to stay in their homes until further...
December 09, 2024

Israel seizes Golan buffer zone after Syrian troops leave positions

A photo released by the official website of the Iranian Defense Ministry on Friday, December 6, 2024, showing the satellite launch
Iran claims to have conducted successful space launch
TEHRAN — Iran said on Friday that it has successfully conducted a space launch with its heaviest payload ever, the latest development in a program the West alleges improves Tehran’s ballistic missile program.The launch of the Simorgh rocket comes as Iran's nuclear program inches towards successfully enriching uranium to weapons-grade levels.Iran maintains its program is peaceful, however government officials in the Islamic Republic have been threatening to potentially develop a nuclear bomb as well as an intercontinental ballistic missile. This would allow Itan to use the weapon against distant countries, for example in Europe and the United States.Friday's launch took place at Iran's Imam Khomeini Spaceport in rural Semnan province, 220 km east of the capital Tehran....
December 06, 2024

Iran claims to have conducted successful space launch

Syrian rebels celebrated on the streets of Hama after the Syrian military pulled out
Syrian rebels capture second major city after military withdraws
LONDON — Syrian rebels say they have taken full control of a second major city, after the military withdrew its troops from Hama in another setback for President Bashar al-Assad.The leader of the militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani, declared "victory" in Hama and vowed there would be "no revenge".Earlier, HTS fighters and their allies took over Hama central prison and released inmates amid fierce battles, while the military said it had redeployed troops outside the city.Hama is home to one million people and is 110km (70 miles) south of Aleppo, which the rebels captured last week after launching a surprise offensive from their stronghold in the north-west.The rebel commander told residents of Homs, which is the next city south on the...
December 06, 2024

Syrian rebels capture second major city after military withdraws

Relatives mourn over the body of 17-year-old Rahaf Abu Laban in Deir al-Balah after she was crushed to death as a crowd of Palestinians pushed to get bread at a bakery
Amnesty International says there is ‘sufficient evidence’ to accuse Israel of genocide in Gaza
LONDON — Amnesty International on Wednesday said that it had gathered “sufficient evidence to believe” that Israel’s conduct during the war in Gaza amounts to genocide against the Palestinian people – a charge the Israeli government has vehemently denied.The 296-page report details evidence gathered over nine months, outlining numerous instances in which Amnesty says Israeli forces and government authorities have committed three of five acts prohibited under the United Nations’ Genocide Convention – including the mass killing of Palestinian civilians, causing serious bodily or mental harm, and deliberately inflicting on Palestinians in Gaza conditions of life “calculated to bring about their physical destruction in whole or in part.”“Month after month, Israel has...
December 05, 2024

Amnesty International says there is ‘sufficient evidence’ to accuse Israel of genocide in Gaza

Itay Svirsky, 38
Israel says body of hostage recovered from Gaza
JERUSALEM — The Israeli military says the body of an Israeli hostage held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip has been recovered in a joint operation with the Shin Bet security service.A statement said Itay Svirsky, 38, who was kidnapped from Kibbutz Be'eri during Hamas’s 7 October 2023 attack on Israel, was “murdered in captivity by his captors”.Hamas said in January that Svirsky and another hostage, Yossi Sharabi, 53, had been killed by Israeli airstrikes.Earlier, the military said an investigation had concluded that the most plausible explanation for the deaths of six other hostages found dead in a tunnel in Gaza in August was that they were shot by Hamas "close" to the time of an Israeli air strike.Troops recovered the bodies of Yagev Buchshtab, 35, Alexander Dancyg, 76,...
December 05, 2024

Israel says body of hostage recovered from Gaza

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, pictured on June 8, is the first Western-allied leader to be accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court
Netanyahu arrest warrant tests Western commitment to international law
LONDON — The reach and credibility of international law is at its lowest in years as governments dismiss arrest warrants in some of the most high-profile cases to come before the International Criminal Court.In the past 18 months, the Hague-based court has issued arrest warrants for Russian President Vladimir Putin as well as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and a senior Hamas official.Netanyahu is the first Western-allied leader to be accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity by the court. Israel has filed appeals and asked the court to suspend the warrants. Meanwhile, several powerful nations have opted not to enforce the warrants, while others have openly rejected them.The French response was perhaps the most damaging to the...
December 04, 2024

Netanyahu arrest warrant tests Western commitment to international law

Nadia Murad says the UN and other international organizations are failing to protect the most vulnerable
Nobel Peace Prize winner says UN failing to bring IS to justice
LONDON — In a courtroom in Munich, Nora sat across from the person who had bought her as a slave, abused her and murdered her five-year-old daughter.Nora and Reda were being held captive in Iraq by the extremist group Islamic State (IS) in 2015, the year after IS began what the UN says was a genocidal campaign against the Yazidi religious minority.They were “bought” as slaves by IS husband and wife Taha al-Jumailly and Jennifer Wenisch who had traveled to Fallujah from Germany.In late July, five-year-old Reda got sick and wet the bed.To punish her, Al-Jumailly took the little girl outside and chained her to a window in 50C-degree heat. He and his wife left the child to die of dehydration while her mother, locked up inside, could only watch.Wenisch became one of the first members of...
December 04, 2024

Nobel Peace Prize winner says UN failing to bring IS to justice

Family handout showing Emily Damari wearing a Tottenham Hotspur scarf at a football match
'I worry every second': Mother of only British hostage in Gaza fears for her life
LONDON — The mother of the only British-Israeli hostage being held by Hamas has described her increasing fears for her daughter's life after more than 400 days in captivity.Emily Damari, 28, was taken by Hamas from her home in southern Israel on 7 October 2023.“I fear that she's dead," her mother Mandy told the BBC in her first television interview. "And if she's not dead, she's not getting enough food to eat, she's not able to wash herself, drink water, she could be ill."“She's suffering from gunshot wounds to her hand and her leg... I worry every day, I worry every second because in the next second, she could be murdered, just because she's there.”Mandy Damari, who was born in Surrey, called on the British government to do more to ensure...
December 04, 2024

'I worry every second': Mother of only British hostage in Gaza fears for her life

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