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Türkiye warns Israel, YPG over chaos in Syria
Sabah
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August 13, 2025
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan held a joint news conference with his Syrian counterpart Assad Al-Shaibani in Ankara on Wednesday and slammed Israel for its policies on Syria. He stated that Syria was a target of Israel’s expansionism in the...
Iraq, Syria weigh oil exports via Baniyas and Lebanon's Tripoli
The New Arab
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August 13, 2025
The energy talks came as much of Iraq was hit by a nationwide power outage on Monday, cutting more than 6,000 megawatts from the grid. [Getty] Iraq and Syria are studying proposals to export crude oil through Syria's Baniyas port and Lebanon's...
From Kirkuk to Tripoli: Historic oil pipeline poised for comeback
LBCI (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International)
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Report by Yazbek Wehbe, English adaptation by Mariella Succar The U.S. Caesar Act, which imposed sanctions on Syria, had delayed efforts to revive the Iraqi oil pipeline running from Kirkuk in northern Iraq to Baniyas in Syria and then to Tripoli...
Ambassador Mike Huckabee Predicts Shocking New Members for the Abraham Accords — Names Syria, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia as Possible Candidates”
[your]NEWS
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August 13, 2025
By Gloria Ogbonna Former Kansas Governor and current U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, has hinted that the next phase of the Abraham Accords could include nations many Americans would least expect. Speaking during the Breitbart Founders...
Syrian energy minister arrives in Baghdad for oil, power talks
Shafaq News
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2025-08-11T19:37:07+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Baghdad Syrian Energy Minister Mohammad al-Bashir arrived in Baghdad on Monday to discuss bilateral energy cooperation, a Syrian source told Shafaq News, contradicting...
EXPLAINED | How Gaza War Delayed IMEC, India’s Global Trade Corridor Dream
Zee News
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New Delhi: India’s ambitious India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC), launched with much fanfare during the 2023 G20 Summit, is now facing major delays. What was once a promising symbol of regional cooperation has been derailed by the...
As a Syrian refugee in Belgium, I see the EU's erosion of its own values
EUobserver
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August 13, 2025
As someone who arrived in Europe as a refugee years ago and later found a new home within the European Union, I have spent the past decade not only living under the protection of its laws and institutions but studying them with deep interest and...
Iraq Considers Oil Exports via Lebanon’s Tripoli Port, to Study Reviving Iraq-Syria Pipeline
Asharq Al-Awsat
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The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) raised estimates for world demand growth in 2026 by 100,000 barrels a day to 1.4 million a day, a fractionally higher rate than this year, on stronger economic expectations. It trimmed...
An urban refugee dividend?
International Institute for Environment & Development (IIED)
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Since the start of Syria’s prolonged civil war in 2011, refugees have been moving to neighbouring countries, including to Jordan. Most of the Syrian refugees in Jordan don't live in formal refugee camps, but in urban, peri-urban and rural areas....
From classroom to crisis: Druze students at Reichman University lead efforts to save their Syrian brethren - Sponsored Content
The Times of Israel
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August 12, 2025
In the bustling halls of Reichman University in Herzliya, three Druze students are channeling their academic pursuits into a desperate mission: saving their community in Syria from what they describe as systematic ethnic cleansing under the new...
Iraq, Syria explore rebuilding decades-old oil pipeline
Shafaq News
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2025-08-12T12:23:40+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Baghdad / Damascus (Updated at 15:37) On Tuesday, Syrian and Iraqi Energy Ministers met in Baghdad to discuss ways of strengthening their cooperation, focusing on restoring...
Syrian Air, Damascus Airport to get funding from Qatar-led consortium
Times Aerospace
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The funding is part of a larger package worth more than $4 billion aimed at redeveloping and expanding the Syrian capital’s Damascus International Airport. Syrian Air had only three A320s active in July, according to Aviation Week’s Tracked...
Donald Trump trade tariffs: Country-wise, product-specific taxes. Check full list
The Economic Times
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August 12, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump has launched a global trade war with an array of tariffs that target individual products and countries. Trump has set a baseline tariff of 10 per cent on all imports to the United States, as well as additional duties on...
Media Review: August 15
Bulgarian News Agency
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No single topic dominates Friday's news media. POLITICS Nova TV's morning show asked experts to comment on the effect on the parliamentary majority of the Government's proposal to sell over 4,400 State-owned properties across the country as a...
Syria vows investigation after video shows forces killing worker in Sweida hospital
The Times of Israel
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August 11, 2025
The Syrian Interior Ministry announced Monday that it had launched an investigation following the emergence of footage showing members of the security forces killing and assaulting hospital workers in Sweida last month during clashes between...
Syria forms committee to review decade of public sector sackings
The New Arab
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August 11, 2025
Reinstating workers fired under Assad could majorly boost local economies in Syria [Getty] Syria has formed a central committee to review the cases of public sector employees dismissed between 2011 and the fall of the Assad regime in December...
US congressman meets Sharaa in Damascus after flying from Israel
The New Arab
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August 12, 2025
Republican Congressman Abraham Hamadeh is of Syrian and partially Druze ancestry [Getty] US Congressman Abraham Hamadeh has held talks with Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa and Foreign Minister Asaad Al-Shaibani in Damascus after flying in...
Iraq exploring options of exporting oil via Lebanon, Syria — minister
TASS
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August 12, 2025
DOHA, August 12. /TASS/. Iraq is considering the possibility to resume oil exports through the Lebanese port of Tripoli and the Syrian port of Baniyas located on the Mediterranean coast, Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister, Oil Minister Hayan Abdel-Ghani...
The Time for a Paradigm Shift Is Now
Foreign Policy
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West Asia stands at a perilous inflection point. The horrors unfolding in Gaza, the recent aggression directed at Iran but repelled by the Iranian people and its armed forces, and the continued destabilization of Syria illustrate in stark terms...
Marco Carnelos – How Syria became the battleground for Israeli and Turkish influence
Brave New Europe
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August 12, 2025
Israel and Turkey are competing for regional hegemony, and Syria is their new battleground. Marco Carnelos is a former Italian diplomat. He has been assigned to Somalia, Australia and the United Nations. He served in the foreign policy staff of...