'This is the best moment for a comprehensive peace effort' in the Middle East: expert
• Dec 17, 2024, 9:49 PM
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The United States said Tuesday it felt "cautious optimism" on the prospects of reaching a ceasefire in the 14-month war in Gaza, although it acknowledged that similar hopes had been dashed before. Henri Barkey, Professor of International Relations at Lehigh University, says with Iran weakened and Russia essentially removed from the Middle East, this is the best moment for a comprehensive peace effort in the region.
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Syrian mass graves expose "machinery of death" under Assad, top prosecutor says
• 11:08 PM
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An international war crimes prosecutor said on Tuesday that evidence emerging from mass grave sites in Syria has exposed a state-run "machinery of death" under toppled leader Bashar al-Assad in which he estimated more than 100,000 people were tortured a
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'This is the best moment for a comprehensive peace effort' in the Middle East: expert
• 9:49 PM
1 min
The United States said Tuesday it felt "cautious optimism" on the prospects of reaching a ceasefire in the 14-month war in Gaza, although it acknowledged that similar hopes had been dashed before. Henri Barkey, Professor of International Relations at Leh
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UN envoy warns Syria conflict not over yet
• 9:13 PM
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A UN envoy warned on Tuesday that Syria's protracted conflict "has not ended yet", even as the country's victorious Islamist-led rebels stepped up contacts with governments that deemed ousted president Bashar al-Assad a pariah. The UN's migration chief,
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Syria ex-rebel military chief says to dissolve armed wing
• 7:15 PM
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The military chief of Syria's victorious Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham said on Tuesday the group would be "the first" to dissolve its armed wing and integrate into the armed forces. Earlier, Syrian rebel leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, better known by his
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Moderate enough? The West eyes normalisation with HTS-led Syria
• 7:13 PM
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Just as the leader of the Islamist-led alliance that toppled Syria’s Assad announced he was shedding his wartime alias Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, can Ahmed al-Sharaa’s HTS shed its past as the Al-Nusra Front, a hardline offshoot of al-Qaeda? France 24’s Was
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Hamas says Gaza ceasefire deal 'closer than ever before’
• 4:47 PM
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An agreement to halt the 14-month-old war in Gaza and free Hamas-held hostages in the Palestinian enclave could be signed in coming days with talks in Doha making progress, according to US and Hamas officials. This comes just a day after an Israeli deleg
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The captagon trafficking ring: How Assad turned Syria into a narco state
• 3:02 PM
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Since the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime, rebel HTS fighters in Syria have found huge stockpiles of an illegal drug called captagon in several warehouses in and around the capital Damascus. The Assad family was at the head of a vast narcotics trafficki
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A celebration of Palestinian cuisine: Fadi Kattan on his cookbook 'Bethlehem'
• 2:08 PM
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A Franco-Palestinian chef from Bethlehem has spoken to FRANCE 24 about how his love for cooking has helped him get through the region's current problems. Fadi Kattan's book "Bethlehem" is a love letter to his hometown and is said to conjure the colours a
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Exclusive: Syria’s de facto new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa calls for lifting of sanctions
• 10:55 AM
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Syrian rebel leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, better known by his nom de guerre Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, called for the lifting of international sanctions in an exclusive interview Monday with a group of foreign journalists that included FRANCE 24’s Wassim Nasr.
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UN envoy to Syria warns ‘conflict has not ended yet’
• 10:23 AM
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Syria’s “conflict has not ended yet”, even after the departure of former president Bashar al-Assad, the UN’s envoy to the country warned Tuesday, highlighting clashes between Turkish-backed and Kurdish groups in the north.
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Families voice concern over treatment of Assad's former soldiers
• 6:14 AM
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After the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime, members of the Syrian army and their families are increasingly worried over the fate of soldiers who used to fight rebel forces in the country. FRANCE 24’s James André, Julie Dungelhoeff and Sofia Amara report.
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Syria's ex-rebel military chief says to dissolve armed wing, wants to end ‘terrorist’ label
• 3:15 AM
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The military chief of Syria’s victorious Islamist group HTS said that the group would be “the first” to dissolve its armed wing and integrate into the armed forces, calling on Western governments to lift the “terrorist” label from HTS and its leader. Rea
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