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In the wake of Sayfollah Musallet’s killing, Al Jazeera details past attacks on US citizens and Washington’s response.
Canary Mission has spent years building a database of student activists. In ICE’s hands, that list is more dangerous than ...
For weeks, Israel has engaged in back-channel talks over a diplomatic agreement with the Syrian government. Its strikes on Damascus this week highlight a lack of strategic clarity.
In place of a coherent strategy or vision, Trump’s approach to the Middle East is driven by dramatic gestures, symbolic ...
Behind the court’s decision to release Georges Abdallah lies a decades-long grassroots campaign, recently invigorated by ...
For weeks, Israel has engaged in back-channel talks over a diplomatic agreement with the Syrian government. Its strikes on ...
Syria’s army began withdrawing from violence-hit Sweida on Wednesday after Israeli strikes on Damascus and US calls for a pullback from the Druze-majority city, state media said. Washington, which ...
According to Karin Kneissl, "The Damascus based army bombed by Israel today is only one among 60 armed groups scattered across Syria" ...
A Druze spiritual leader representing one of the factions in Suwayda, Youssef Jarbou, confirmed an agreement was reached for a “complete and immediate halt to all military operations and de-escalation ...
President Donald Trump says it is “highly unlikely” he will fire Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell “unless he has to ...