Israel, Syria and Damascus

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After the bloodshed, can Syria’s president unite his country?
Sharaa, seemed to waver between his jihadist past and his presidential present. After the first day of violence he made a ...
Israeli Druze prepare for first visit by Syrian Druze in decades
The head of the Druze community in Israel on Thursday hailed plans for the first visit by a Druze religious delegation from ...
Top Turkish officials visit Damascus, Turkey's foreign ministry says
ANKARA - Turkey's foreign minister, defence minister and the head of the MIT intelligence agency are in Damascus on a working visit, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said on Thursday, without providing ...
Syrian leader signs constitution that puts the country under an Islamist group’s rule for 5 years
Syria’s interim president has signed a temporary constitution that leaves the country under Islamist rule for five years ...
Exclusive: Qatar to supply gas to Syria via Jordan with a US nod, sources say
Qatar is set to supply Syria with gas via Jordan to improve the nation's meager power supply, three people familiar with the ...
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Syria president approves draft constitution
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Syria’s interim leader Ahmed al-Sharaa on Thursday approved a draft constitutional declaration that sets a five-year transitional period, state media announced. “We hope that ...
Syria flashes signs of peril and promise in a week of violence and diplomacy
After Syria’s longtime autocratic ruler was toppled late last year, the man who led rebel groups to victory immediately faced ...
Russian diesel continues to flow to Syria on US-sanctioned tankers, data shows
A second tanker under U.S. sanctions is moored near the Syrian port of Banias and may deliver a diesel cargo from Russia, data shows, as Moscow and Damascus strengthen ties.