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Syria concludes first election since fall of Assad regime
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
Ballot boxes have closed across Syria after the counting continued late into Sunday evening, as the country conducted its first parliamentary elections since the fall of the Assad regime, CNN reported.
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Syria holds first Parliamentary elections since fall of Bashar-al Assad
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
The People's Assembly has 210 seats, of which 140 are voted on by electoral colleges throughout the country, with the number of seats for each district distributed by population. The remaining 70 deputies will be appointed directly by al-Sharaa.
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US Secy of State Marco Rubio meets Ahmed al-Sharaa, first Syrian president
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
They discussed ongoing counterterrorism efforts, efforts to locate missing Americans, and the importance of Israel-Syria relations in achieving greater regional security, according to a readout of their meeting.
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Syria's government refuses Paris talks with Kurdish-led SDF, demands dialo
Updated : 7 months ago IST
Syria's new government refused to join planned talks with the Kurdish-led SDF in Paris, demanding negotiations happen in Damascus. Tensions rise after clashes and a Kurdish conference calling for decentralization. The SDF accused government-backed groups of repeated attacks, threatening trus
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US revokes foreign terrorist designation of Syria's HTS
Updated : 8 months, 1 week ago IST
The US has revoked the Foreign Terrorist Organisation (FTO) designation of Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a Syria-based organisation which had ties with al-Qaeda and was also a front of al-Nusrah.
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Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa forms transitional govt with diverse cabi
Updated : 11 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa has announced the formation of a transitional government, appointing 23 ministers in a diverse new cabinet, Al Jazeera reported on Sunday.
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Israel airstrikes southern Syria, killing 2 and injuring 19
Updated : 12 months ago IST
The Israeli military have confirmed the strikes, saying that it targeted military sites with weapons belonging to forces of ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
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US condemns attacks on Syrian minorities as coastal violence escalates
Updated : 1 year ago IST
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio condemned the recent killings in western Syria, blaming radical Islamist terrorists. As violence escalates in Latakia and Tartous, Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa has launched an investigation, vowing accountability for those responsible. The Un
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Over 1,000 die in 2 days of clashes in Syria
Updated : 1 year ago IST
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported deaths in more than 20 locations across the Latakia, Tartus, and Hama governorates, marking one of the deadliest episodes in Syria's 14-year conflict, as per DW.
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Tulsi Gabbard, Trump's pick for Director National Intelligence to appear b
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
Tulsi Gabbard, on Thursday, will face what could be the toughest confirmation hearing of any of his top nominees as Democrats and some Republicans have been preparing to question Gabbard about her visit to Syria in 2017, her statements in support of Russia and her concerns regarding domestic
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Israeli military seizes 3,300 weapons in Syria
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
Following the fall of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in mid-December last year, Israeli forces claimed to have taken more than 3,300 pieces of weaponry.
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EU ministers to discuss lifting Syria sanctions after Western, Arab diplom
Updated : 1 year, 2 months ago IST
European foreign ministers have agreed to meet at the end of January to discuss the possibility of lifting sanctions on Syria following a regional meeting in Riyadh, where foreign ministers and top diplomats from Western nations and the Middle East gathered for the first such gathering si
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