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Sheikh Mohammed funds life-saving treatment for Syrian girl
The National News
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Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, Vice President and Ruler of Dubai, is to cover Dh7 million ($1.9 million) in medical treatment for a young girl with spinal muscular atrophy. The announcement came after Yaqeen Kankar’s uncle posted a video on social...
When will UN lift sanctions on Syria’s interim government?
The National News
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The US is preparing to circulate to the UN Security Council a draft resolution calling for the lifting of sanctions on Syria’s leader Ahmad Al Shara. Discussions are already under way between the Security Council's permanent members – the US,...
Hospital in Deir ez-Zor struggles to stay open after loss of funding
North Press Agency
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July 2, 2025
DEIR EZ-ZOR, Syria (North Press) – The director of a hospital in the western countryside of Deir ez-Zor, eastern Syria, told North Press on Wednesday that the medical staff is facing mounting challenges following the suspension of support from a...
At least 4 killed in explosion in central Syria
Xinhua News Agency
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DAMASCUS, July 3 (Xinhua) -- An explosion rocked the village of Jabrin, east of the central Syrian city of Hama, on Wednesday, killing at least four civilians and injuring nine others, according to Syria's health authorities. Syrian Civil Defense...
How Syria Buried the Assad Regime’s Victims in Mass Graves
The New York Times
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July 3, 2025
The Najha cemetery is about five miles south of Damascus, the capital. It was established decades ago as a modest burial ground for people from Damascus and neighboring towns. Shortly after the crackdown on the Syrian revolution in March 2011,...
Israeli-Linked Hadassah Clinic in Moscow Treats Wounded Iranian IRGC Fighters
Sada Elbalad
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July 3, 2025
Thu 03 Jul 2025 | 01:57 PM Moscow branch of Israel’s Hadassah Medical Center, affiliated with Russian authorities and state-owned nuclear corporation Rosatom, is treating members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) injured in...
Health care would be slashed even for immigrants with legal status under massive Senate bill
Alaska Beacon
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July 2, 2025
Provisions in the new tax and spending bill passed by the U.S. Senate early Tuesday would go even further than the House bill in removing health care and other benefits from immigrants with legal status. The House version of the massive tax and...
To Unfreeze Charity Accounts: Government Mediation with the Syrian Central Bank
Enab Baladi
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July 2, 2025
Enab Baladi – Wasim al-Adawi In the initial months following the fall of the previous regime, confusion prevailed among the supervisors and workers of charitable organizations due to the freezing of their financial accounts. This led to a...
The Alawite women taken as sex slaves in Syria
The Spectator
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July 2, 2025
Syria’s Alawite communities are in the grip of a fear that their women and girls could be kidnapped and held as sabaya, or sex slaves. After the Assad dictatorship fell, amid revenge attacks by militias loyal to the country’s new rulers, there...
UN delegation assesses Syria crisis: 16 Million lack basic services
Shafaq News
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2025-07-03T06:42:30+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Damascus On Thursday, the United Nations called for urgent international support to address Syria’s deepening humanitarian crisis, where nearly 16 million people are living...
Syria’s Gulf neighbours see a chance to expand their own model for the region
The New Zealand Herald
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July 1, 2025
He was speaking after al-Sharaa met Trump in the Saudi capital, Riyadh. “We are in an incredibly difficult and dangerous time in the region — but nonetheless we are also in a time that offers incredible opportunity,” he added. “If we can now all...
Syria's Jolani is a US-Israeli ‘intelligence tool’ working to advance their interests: Activist
Press TV
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By Sally Ahmed Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, the head of the Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)-led regime in Damascus, is a US-Israeli “intelligence tool” working to advance their interests, according to a Syrian political activist. In an interview with the...
Fuel Truck explosion kills, wounds dozens in central Syria
Yemen News Agency SABA
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July 2, 2025
[Wed, 02 Jul 2025 21:46:35 +0300] Damascus - SABA: At least seven people were killed and others wounded when a fuel truck exploded, triggering a series of secondary blasts in Syria's Idlib province on Wednesday. A medical source at Hama National...
Syrian forces massacred Alawites. The chain of command led to Damascus
BDNews24
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The young man’s heart was sliced from his chest and placed on his body. His name was No. 56 on a handwritten list of 60 dead that included his cousins, neighbors and at least six children from their coastal Syrian village. The men who killed...
Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ bill will slash health care for legal immigrants to pay for tax cuts
Arizona Mirror
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July 2, 2025
Provisions in the new tax and spending bill passed by the U.S. Senate early Tuesday would go even further than the House bill in removing health care and other benefits from immigrants with legal status. The House version of the massive tax and...
'Help us escape, we can't live here,' pleads Damascus priest after deadly attack
Detroit Catholic
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July 2, 2025
AMMAN, Jordan (OSV News) ─ Fears mount for Syrian Christians about whether the new Islamist government is committed to their protection following the recent deadly church suicide bombing in Damascus. Religious freedom advocates say the United...
Al-Sakaf and al-Ali discuss reforming the structure of the Syrian Health Ministry
SANA
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July 2, 2025
Damascus, SANA-Minister of Administrative Development Mohammad Hassan Al-Sakaf and Minister of Health Dr. Musab al-Ali held a joint meeting today at the Ministry of Administrative Development headquarters. During the meeting, they discussed ways...
VIDEO: Sheikh Mohammed covers the treatment of Syrian girl Yaqeen in Dubai
Gulf Today
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July 2, 2025
His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, has committed to providing treatment for Yaqeen Ibrahim, a Syrian girl suffering from spinal muscular atrophy. Yaqeen's uncle...
Syria's Hollywood: Qatari investors back $1.5bn Damascus Gate project
The National News
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Syria hopes to attract artists and filmmakers under a $1.5 billion deal with Qatari investors to build a creative quarter known as Damascus Gate. The deal between Syria's new rulers and Qatari company Al Maha International is the latest in a...
Israeli military 'captures terrorist cell operated by Iran' in Syria
The National News
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The Israeli military said on Wednesday it captured a “terrorist cell operated by Iran” in an operation in southern Syria, as Syrian state media said three people were arrested. Israeli troops have been stationed in Syria since the fall of...