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9 September, 2024
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, centre, in Tehran, Iran on July 30. He was assassinated the following day. Photo: EPA-EFE
Israel-Gaza war

Israel acknowledges it killed ex-Hamas leader Haniyeh in Iran

Defence chief Israel Katz admitted to killing Ismail Haniyeh in July, warning the military would ‘decapitate’ leadership of Yemen’s Houthis.

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China-Middle East relations

China’s diplomatic clout in Mideast at risk as threats build around ally Iran

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Middle East

Ex-Israeli spies describe exploding devices operation against Hezbollah

Israel-Gaza war

Israeli order to evacuate Gaza hospital ‘next to impossible’ to obey, medics say

Staff at Kamal Adwan hospital say evacuation impossible due to lack of ambulances.

Badly damaged Palestinian houses during the ongoing Israeli military operation in Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip. Photo: Reuters
Israel-Gaza war

Hamas, 2 other Palestinian groups say Gaza ceasefire deal ‘closer than ever’

A Hamas leader said talks had made ‘significant and important progress’.

Israel-Gaza war

Israel-Gaza war: rocket from Yemen strikes Tel Aviv, injures 16

The strike comes days after Israeli air strikes hit Houthi rebels launched missiles in solidarity with Palestinians.

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Middle East

Israel and Turkey seize the chance to shape Syria’s future post-Assad

While Turkey backs the HTS regime, Israel is destroying its military capacity and claiming territory – fuelling fears of fragmentation.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) walks with soldiers at the seized Mount Hermon in the Golan Heights, near the border with Syria, on Tuesday. Photo: Government Press Office / AFP
Middle East

US scraps US$10 million bounty on Syria’s new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa

Top US diplomat for the Middle East Barbara Leaf welcomed ‘positive messages’ from their talks, including a promise to fight terrorism.

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Middle East

US says it doubled number of its troops in Syria before Assad’s fall

Washington has for years said it has some 900 military personnel in Syria as part of international efforts against Isis.

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Middle East

Israeli strikes hit Yemen’s capital and port city after Houthi missile intercepted

Strikes targeted power stations and an oil terminal in Yemen after a Houthi missile was launched at Israel.

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Firefighters extinguish a fire at a power station following Israeli air strikes in Sanaa, Yemen. Photo: Reuters
Middle East

CNN’s gripping Syria report unravels: freed prisoner was really an intelligence officer

CNN reporter says ‘very difficult to verify information in real time’ after prisoner turned out to be an ex-intelligence officer, not a civilian.

Reporter Clarissa Ward and a man who was freed after she and a Syrian rebel guard discovered him locked in a Damascus prison. Photo: CNN via AP
Malaysia

2 Malaysians jailed in Guantanamo Bay over terror attacks return home

The two JI members, who were involved in the 2002 Bali bombings, will undergo a reintegration programme in Malaysia.

Middle East

Syria’s Golani says rebel factions will be ‘disbanded’, fighters to join army

HTS leader Abu Mohammed al-Golani says ‘Syria must remain united’ following Assad’s ouster.

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Israel-Gaza war

Israeli team in Qatar for talks on potential Gaza ceasefire deal, official says

Israel’s defence minister says have ‘not been this close to a deal’ on hostages in Gaza.

The silhouettes of a military vehicle and a soldier are seen near the Gaza border. Photo: Reuters
Syria

No US government group in Syria to search for journalist Austin Tice

US not ruling out sending people to Damascus to find the missing journalist, who was captured in 2012.

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US journalist Austin Tice went missing in Syria in 2012 and has not been heard from since. File photo: Fort Worth Star-Telegram / TNS
Syria

Syria’s ousted leader Assad says he wanted to keep fighting but Russians evacuated him

Syria’s Bashar al-Assad issued his first statement since being toppled from power.

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Syria

Syria rebel leader meets with visiting UN envoy

Pair discussed need to focus on Syrian territorial unity, reconstruction and achieving economic development, rebel statement says.

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India

India loses a key Kashmir ally with fall of Syria’s Assad

Analysts say New Delhi also fears extremists exploiting the collapse of Assad’s regime to rally support for Islamic militancy.

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Kashmiri demonstrators hold an Islamic state flag in Srinagar, India, in 2014. Photo: AFP
Malaysia

‘Now we know’: Malaysia’s Syrian refugees find Assad’s fall bittersweet

Malaysia offered sanctuary to thousands of Syrians who fled the Assad regime. Now Bashar is gone some want to return. Others aren’t so sure.

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China-Middle East relations

China urges efforts to curb Syria’s further descent and refugee crisis

Foreign Minister Wang Yi says Palestinian issue must not be ignored and ‘Middle East should not remain a victim of great power rivalries’.

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Middle East

Syrian rebels expose ousted Assad regime’s drug trade, fuelled by Captagon

Syria was the world’s leading trafficker of Captagon, a highly addictive amphetamine, during the country’s long war.

Captagon pills found at a drug manufacturing facility on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria. Photo: AFP
Israel-Gaza war

Israel kills at least 66 in Gaza, strikes post office used as shelter

Strikes came after the UN General Assembly called for an immediate ceasefire in the devastated Palestinian territory.

People make their way through rubble following an Israeli strike at a post office in Nuseirat in central Gaza Strip. Photo: Reuters
Afghanistan

Isis says behind suicide blast that killed Afghan minister

Suicide blast in Afghanistan’s capital marks the highest-profile casualty since the Taliban retook power three years ago.

Middle East

Assad’s fall in Syria will not weaken ‘strong and powerful’ Iran: Khamenei

Assad has long played a strategic role in Iran’s anti-Israel ‘axis of resistance’, especially in supplying weapons to Hezbollah in Lebanon.

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War and conflict

Opinion | World watches and waits as Islamist group HTS leads a post-Assad Syria

From Russia and the Middle East to the EU and US, the rise of Islamist group HTS is cause for caution over optimism.

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Portraits of ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad are dumped in a skip in the Damascus suburb of Daraya on December 9. Islamist-led rebels took Damascus in a lightning offensive on December 8, sending Assad fleeing and ending five decades of Baath rule in Syria. Photo: AFP
Middle East

Afghanistan’s refugees minister killed by suicide blast

Khalil Ur-Rahman Haqqani was killed in an explosion at the ministry’s offices in the capital Kabul.

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Afghanistan’s Minister for Refugees Khalil Haqqani (middle) at a refugee camp near the Afghanistan-Pakistan Torkham border in 2023. Photo: AFP
Israel-Gaza war

Israeli air strikes kill at least 38 Palestinians in Gaza, medics say

Israel’s military says it killed two senior, armed Hamas commanders in two separate air strikes.

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Middle East

Syria’s infamous Sednaya prison was a ‘slaughterhouse’, ex-inmates say

Now the Assad dynasty has been toppled, its dungeons and torture chambers are giving up their secrets.

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