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UAE-based DP World takes control of Syria’s Tartus port in $800m deal
13 Nov 2025 15:08 GMT
… June, Syria’s government annulled a 2019 agreement between Bashar al-Assad’s … administration and the Russian company Stroytransgaz to manage Tartus.
Damascus … deal was “unfair to Syrian sovereignty”, with Syria receiving 35 percent of …
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Minsk in Moscow’s grip: How Russia subjugated Belarus without annexation
13 Nov 2025 14:29 GMT
… to Moscow, and Putin seized the opportunity. In November 2021, Belarus and Russia … alongside North Korea, Eritrea, Syria, and Russia itself. Diplomatic independence has all … runs through Moscow. Belarusian factories feed Putin’s war machine, the Russian ruble …
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Israel’s Syria Project Reaches New Peak as Trump Welcomes Ex-al-Qaeda Warlord Jolani to the White House, Marandi Warns
13 Nov 2025 13:08 GMT
… his faction, weaken Damascus, and maintain a fractured Syrian map that prevents … visit to Moscow only reinforces this logic, Marandi argued, as Russia manoeuvres … Syrian rebels either
This has pushed Erdogan into awkward overtures toward Russia …
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Eight military airfields around Damascus, what are they?
13 Nov 2025 15:07 GMT
… the gateways to southern Syria, near Damascus.
Although Syria’s Foreign Ministry denied … kilometers long.
It previously hosted Russian SU-22M fighter aircraft, according … -Sultan in Eastern Ghouta (Rural Damascus, southern Syria), more than 20 kilometers …
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Syrian boy killed by SDF-planted land mine in Aleppo
13 Nov 2025 11:01 GMT
… dominated SDF exploded in northern Syria, local media said. The … Despite a March agreement between Syrian authorities and the SDF, … have escalated in northern Syria following the ouster of Bashar … dominance. Assad fled to Russia amid mounting public unrest and …
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What hope is there for Syria today?
13 Nov 2025 10:24 GMT
… than the performance of Syrian members of parliament beating … and amiable’ Syrians.
It Started in Damascus takes its place … s abandonment of Syria to Assad and Moscow, calls for … Sectarian killings have horrified Syrians, assurances of transparency, inclusion …
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Is Putin a good strategist?
13 Nov 2025 09:29 GMT
… of militias from the Syrian Civil War or Islamic … Moscow and Putin himself as a bungling strategist who is only diminishing Russia … Chechnya to Georgia, the Syrian Civil War, and Crimea … do not impact Russia directly unless Moscow was actually planning to …
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Syrian President’s historic visit to the White House
13 Nov 2025 08:36 GMT
… s side. Today, however, Damascus is governed by a Sunni … sectarian identity. Iran and Russia - the two countries that … support to former President Bashar al-Assad during the popular … rejects Israeli attempt to divide Syria, calls for international support …
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US Senate Foreign Relations Committee backs lifting sanctions on Syria
13 Nov 2025 08:14 GMT
… dealings involving the governments of Russia and Iran, or transactions involving … Russian- or Iranian-origin goods, technology, … Bashar al-Assad by restricting international investments and economic interactions with the Syrian …
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CENTCOM Executes 22 Anti-ISIS Operations in Syria This Month
13 Nov 2025 08:10 GMT
… maintains approximately 900 troops in Syria, primarily in the northeast, … backdrop of increasing regional instability. Syria remains fractured among competing forces … and faces opposition from the Syrian government, Russia, and Iran.
Furthermore, the …