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Rebuilding Wrecked Syria Vital For Regional Stability: UN
After 14 years of destruction, Syria must be swiftly rebuilt to bring stability to the country and the wider region, a top UN official in the war-ravaged nation told AFP. Reconstruction is one of the most significant challenges facing Syria's new...
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World AFP Rebuilding wrecked Syria vital for regional stability: UN
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Yahoo News
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After 14 years of destruction, Syria must be swiftly rebuilt to bring stability to the country and the wider region, a top UN official in the war-ravaged nation told AFP. Reconstruction is one of the most significant challenges facing Syria's new...
Owner: Apollo Global Management
Turkish Parliament approves Erdogan’s longest military mandate to operate in Syria
The Turkish Parliament has voted to extend the government’s authority to conduct military operations in Syria and Iraq for three more years. The decision gives President Recep Tayyip Erdogan continued power to send troops abroad and to authorize...
Owner: The Nordic Research Monitoring Network
UN calls for stronger support for Syria as millions still need it
Deputy Special Envoy for Syria Najat Rochdi, in a briefing from Damascus, called for a renewed commitment to women’s participation in the country’s political transition, saying their exclusion risks undermining hard-won progress. Place at the...
Owner: Petar Gramatikov
Turkish man aiding Syrian refugees through Ankara charity shop arrested on sexual assault charges
A Turkish man known for helping refugees through a charity shop in Ankara has been arrested on charges of sexually assaulting several Syrian women on the pretext of offering aid, Turkish Minute reported, citing the BBC Turkish service. Saadettin...
Owner: Stockholm Center for Freedom (Non-profit)
Free, Fast, and Global: The Volunteer Therapy Network Catching Israel’s Next Wave of Trauma
In a smart, human-centered report, Maayan Hoffman spotlights Planetherapy—a sprawling volunteer network offering free mental health care to Israelis and Jews after Oct. 7—and the quiet surge in need as the war cools. Clinical psychologist Igor...
Owner: Felice Friedson
Increase in kidnapping cases in northern Syria
In areas controlled by the Syrian Interim Government, incidents of kidnapping and murder have been rising dangerously. Most recently, unidentified armed groups kidnapped a man from Latakia and attempted to abduct a child in rural Quneitra. Three...
Owner: Stichting Persbureau Eufraat (Non-Transparent)
Syria's wildly successful crowdfunding: Real hope or PR?
The amount of money being donated for reconstruction in Syria is nothing short of miraculous. In fact, the crowdfunding campaigns underway there since mid-August may well be some of the most successful in the world. For example, in 2024, during...
Owner: German Government
From Khartoum to Clarkston: How a Sudanese nurse is filling a gap in health care
Maha Mousnad doesn’t let much keep her down. Not a long journey to the United States or the arduous process of becoming a registered nurse here. Not the fact that her family is living in the midst of a civil war in Sudan, nor the start of a global...
Owner: Atlanta Public Schools & American Government
Gaza: Egypt assisting Hamas with finding captive bodies
Lebanon's health ministry said on Sunday that Israeli strikes on the country's south and east had killed three people, despite an ongoing ceasefire deal, as Israel claimed it had targeted two members of Hezbollah. Officials said one person had...
Owner: Maayed Ahmed Saleem Dib & Mohammad Muhddin Suleiman Almasri
How attacking healthcare has become a strategy of war
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British Medical Journal
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Will Stahl-Timmins, data graphics designer, Elisabeth Mahase, careers editor, Madeline Hutcheson, reporter, Mun-Keat Looi, international news and features editor The BMJ mlooi{at}bmj.com Gaza, Ukraine, and Sudan have put a spotlight on attacks on...
Owner: British Medical Association
2 killed in Israeli strikes in Lebanon despite ceasefire
Israeli airstrikes killed two civilians in southern and eastern Lebanon on Sunday, in the latest violation of a ceasefire agreement, the Lebanese Health Ministry said, Anadolu reports. A ministry statement said one person lost his life in a strike...
Owner: Daud Al-Jamal Abdullah
Syria’s new leader promised democracy. Then he excluded women from parliamentary elections
Women’s political participation is often treated as a measure of a country’s commitment to equality and democracy. Earlier this year, Syria’s new leader, President Ahmed al-Sharaa, described his country as moving in a “democratic direction” after...
Owner: The Conversation Media Group
Azerbaijan repatriates six more citizens from Syria
Baku, October 23, AZERTAC Another group of Azerbaijani citizens, including two women and four children, has been repatriated from Syria as a result of the consistent and coordinated measures carried out by the Government of the Republic of...
Owner: Azerbaijani Government
Makassed, Qatar Charity Partner to Aid Syrian Dialysis Patients
Ammon News - Makassed Charitable Hospital, affiliated with the Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs, on Thursday signed a cooperation agreement with Qatar Charity to enhance health services for Syrian refugee kidney dialysis patients whose...
Owner: Sameer Al Hayari
UN appeals for stronger support for Syria, with millions still in need
Deputy Special Envoy for Syria Najat Rochdi, briefing from Damascus, called for a renewed commitment to the participation of women in the country’s political transition, saying their exclusion risks undermining hard-won progress. Seat at the table...
Owner: Petar Gramatikov
Assad-era commander who ruled Sednaya prison arrested in Syria
Pro-Government
The National News
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A former Syrian military official, accused of being responsible for the execution of detainees at the notorious Sednaya prison during the Assad regime, has been arrested. The country's interior ministry said counter-terrorism forces in Damascus...
Owner: United Arab Emirates Government
A Spanish Tourist Is Admitted to the Hospital in Cuba in Critical Condition and With a Deplorable Medical Setting
Pedro Daniel Bernad had to undergo two operations in Santa Clara due to an intestinal obstruction while pneumonia complicated his condition. Pedro Daniel Bernad remains in the Intensive Care Unit of the Arnaldo Milián Castro hospital in Santa...
Owner: Mary Jo Porter & Karen Heffner Chun
Syria Hopes for Full Lifting of US Sanctions in Coming Months
US Vice President JD Vance is welcomed by Israeli Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter and US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee upon his arrival at Ben Gurion airport in Lod, Israel, Oct. 21, 2025. Photo: Nathan Howard/Pool via REUTERS US...
Owner: Bernie Bellan
Why is Syria seeking rapprochement with Russia despite its unpopularity?
DAMASCUS — In an ornate room in the Kremlin, a meeting unthinkable only a year ago took place last week: Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa, the man at the helm of Syria’s post-Assad political transition, shook hands with Russian President Vladimir...
Owner: Near East Media