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Asharq Al-Awsat on MSN1hOpinion
‘Planes, Planes, Planes’
It was a pleasant night in Beirut. The seaside cafes were full late into the night. The city has a habit of concealing its wounds and disappointments, to challenges death and the rubble, and to ...
The one thing holding Syria together now is Ahmed al-Sharaa, who has taken on the near-impossible job of teaching his people ...
Syria is a brutal place, even today. Israel is wise to destroy weapons there. A rmed forces in Syria still loyal to the ousted Bashar al-Assad launched attacks on the new regime n ...
The recent violence in Syria's coastal region represents a significant threat to the country's political transition. The post ...
The ousted Assad dictatorship kept lists of millions of wanted people. Now, Syrians are openly asking whether they “have a ...
Syria’s new leadership faces allegations of mass killings, as Alawite communities endure field executions and mass ...
The cries for revenge reached fever pitch on March 6. Dozens of messages posted by various armed factions on social media, ...
Lebanese border areas between troops led by Hayat Tahrir Al Sham and fighters aligned with Hezbollah, sources on both sides ...
The leaders of the autonomous Kurdistan Region in northern Iraq on Sunday commemorated the Halabja massacre of Kurds that ...
Beirut: Journalists sometimes hear shocking statements—ones they lock away in their memory, fearing their repercussions. Some are too violent, too damaging, or too costly to repeat. Others risk swift ...
Sharaa, whose fighters led the offensive that toppled the Assad family dynasty in December, has said he will build an ...