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9 September, 2024

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

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.

21 Dec 2024 - 5:30PM

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

20 Dec 2024 - 2:45PMvideocam

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

17 Dec 2024 - 12:17PMvideocam

Turkey will offer military training to Syria if new administration requests

Nato member Turkey backed the Syrian rebels who toppled President Bashar al-Assad last weekend, ending a 13-year civil war.

15 Dec 2024 - 5:48PM

Turkish Defence Minister Yasar Guler. Photo: Reuters

Opinion | How Syria’s new chapter changes the game for the entire region

After Bashar al-Assad’s overthrow, uncertainties remain about the agenda of Syria’s new government and the interests of foreign powers.

15 Dec 2024 - 9:20AMvideocam

‘Friday of victory’: mass rallies across Syria celebrate fall of Assad

Fireworks and waving flags mark the first Friday prayers since a lightning rebel offensive ended over half a century of brutal rule.

14 Dec 2024 - 6:14AMvideocam

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Russia aims to secure deal with new Syria leaders to keep vital military bases

Talks are taking place for Russia to maintain a military presence in Syria after the overthrow of Kremlin ally Assad.

13 Dec 2024 - 1:56PM

Russian aircraft, helicopters and military equipment at Khmeimim airbase, near Latakia, Syria. Photo: Maxar Technologies via Reuters

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.

12 Dec 2024 - 10:17AM

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.

11 Dec 2024 - 8:57PMvideocam

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.

11 Dec 2024 - 10:24PMvideocam

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

Isis comeback? Syria power vacuum marks opportunity for jihadists

A chaotic political transition following Bashar al-Assad’s exit from Syria could offer Isis’ scattered jihadists benefits.

10 Dec 2024 - 1:43PMvideocam

Portraits of ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad are dumped in a skip in the Damascus suburb of Daraya. Photo: AFP

Biden says Assad’s fall a ‘fundamental act of justice’, but ‘a moment of risk’

The outgoing Biden administration and President-elect Donald Trump were working to make sense of new threats and opportunities across the Middle East.

9 Dec 2024 - 3:07PMvideocam

Syria’s Assad in Moscow after deal on military bases: Russian state media

Bashar al-Assad and family granted asylum in Russia after his regime was toppled in a lightning rebel advance.

9 Dec 2024 - 2:48PM

Syrian rebels topple President Assad, prime minister calls for free elections

The rebel forces declared Assad ousted after taking control of Damascus, following 13 years of civil war and 50 years of Assad family rule.

8 Dec 2024 - 8:40PM

Members of the Syrian community wave Syrian flags on Sunday in Vienna, Austria. Photo: AFP

Burkina Faso junta sacks prime minister and dissolves government

Military leader Ibrahim Traore said officials in the dissolved government will continue to perform their duties until a new one is formed.

7 Dec 2024 - 7:59AMvideocam

Burkina Faso’s junta leader Ibrahim Traore attends the first ordinary summit of heads of state and governments of the Alliance of Sahel States in Niamey, Niger, in July. Photo: Reuters

Syrian rebels capture city of Hama in fresh blow to President Assad

Hama is critical to the control of major towns as Syrian rebels stage rapid advances.

6 Dec 2024 - 11:59AM

Who is the leader of Syria’s shock insurgency?

Abu Mohammed al-Golani is leading rebels in a stunning offensive that has brought the Syrian civil war back into focus.

4 Dec 2024 - 3:04PM

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Syria launches counter-attacks in an attempt to halt insurgency

Shock rebel offensive saw government forces lose control of Aleppo for the first time since the start of the country’s civil war.

2 Dec 2024 - 1:23PM

An abandoned Syrian army tank, southwest of Aleppo. Photo: AP

Boko Haram attack on Chadian troops near Nigerian border leaves 40 dead

The attack, which took place near Ngouboua in the Lake Chad region, targeted a garrison housing around 200 soldiers.

29 Oct 2024 - 4:18AMvideocam

The Philippines

Philippines jails Abu Sayyaf kidnappers for life over Malaysia resort abductions

The hostages, including nationals of the Philippines, Malaysia, France, Lebanon and South Africa, endured months of captivity in 2000.

21 Oct 2024 - 1:55PM

Israel-Gaza war

Libyan suspected of planning attack on Israel embassy arrested in Germany

The man, 28, thought to have links to Islamic State, is accused of planning a high-profile attack with firearms.

20 Oct 2024 - 5:46PMvideocam

Police secure the area near Israel’s embassy in Berlin, Germany, on Sunday. Photo: Reuters

Singapore foils teen terror plot weeks before planned attack

The youth, 17, was less than a month away from executing his plan at the time of his arrest in August.

18 Oct 2024 - 5:07PMvideocam

Singapore’s skyline of the central business district. Since 2020, Singapore has detained five self-radicalised youths who wanted to carry out attacks in the city state, using easily accessible weapons. Photo: Reuters

Israel-Gaza war

Who was Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader Israel killed?

The chief architect of the October 7 attack was a nightmarish figure to his enemies, and both respected and feared in Gaza.

18 Oct 2024 - 2:29PMvideocam

US presidential election 2024

FBI arrests Afghan man for plotting US election day attack

Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, and alleged co-conspirator were arrested after meeting FBI assets to buy weapons.

9 Oct 2024 - 11:06AM

Russia seeking to cause ‘mayhem’ in UK, Europe, MI5 spy chief says

Director General Ken McCallum warned of a growing threat from Russia and Iran, as well as from al-Qaeda and Islamic State.

8 Oct 2024 - 8:22PM

Ken McCallum, Director General of MI5. Photo: AP

Israel-Gaza war

Pakistani man charged over plot to attack NY Jewish centre around October 7

Canadian resident Muhammad Shahzeb Khan allegedly planned a mass shooting around the one-year anniversary of the Hamas assault in Israel.

7 Sep 2024 - 3:07PM

US Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks during an Election Threats Task Force meeting at the Justice Department in Washington on Wednesday. Photo: AFP

Germany’s far-right AfD wins first regional election, exit polls show

AfD took former East German state Thuringia, was neck-and-neck with conservative CDU for first place in Saxony, which also held election.

2 Sep 2024 - 6:18AM

15 Islamic State militants killed in desert raid by US and Iraqi forces

The US military says the joint operation targeted the Isis militants in Iraq’s western Anbar Desert region.

31 Aug 2024 - 3:13PM

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