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Best of 2025: ‘What reconciliation? What forgiveness?’: Syria’s deadly reckoning – podcast
By December 29, 2025

Every Monday and Friday for the rest of December we will publish some of our favourite audio long reads of 2025, in case you missed them, with an introduction from the editorial team to explain why we’ve chosen it.From October: Over a few brutal days i…

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Best of 2025: ‘What reconciliation? What forgiveness?’: Syria’s deadly reckoning – podcast
By December 29, 2025

Every Monday and Friday for the rest of December we will publish some of our favourite audio long reads of 2025, in case you missed them, with an introduction from the editorial team to explain why we’ve chosen it.From October: Over a few brutal days i…

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Syrian Protests Over Lack of Security Leave 2 Dead
ByRaja Abdulrahim December 28, 2025December 28, 2025

Days after a bombing at a mosque in a predominantly Alawite area, members of the religious minority in Syria demonstrated for better protections.

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Zero Hour for the Middle East
ByRoger Cohen, David Guttenfelder, Saher Alghorra, Daniel Berehulak and Nanna Heitmann December 28, 2025December 28, 2025

After more than a decade of wars, from Syria to Gaza, the Middle East is exhausted by conflict. Is it ready to find another way?

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8 Killed in Syria Mosque Blast, Government Says
ByAbdi Latif Dahir and Hussam Hammoud December 26, 2025December 26, 2025

Ansar al-Sunna, which experts say appears to be an ISIS splinter group, claimed responsibility for the explosion, which happened as worshipers were attending Friday Prayer.

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The Deposed Assad Henchmen Plotting to Retake Syria
ByErika Solomon, Christiaan Triebert, Haley Willis and Ahmad Mhidi December 24, 2025

Hacked communications and a social media analysis reveal how former regime leaders are trying to arm fighters and exert influence as far away as Washington.

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The best of the long read in 2025
ByMiddle East and north Africa | The Guardian December 23, 2025

Our 20 favourite pieces of in-depth reporting, essays and profiles from the yearVictor Pelevin made his name in 90s Russia with scathing satires of authoritarianism. But while his literary peers have faced censorship and fled the country, he still sell…

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Assad, Ousted Syrian Ruler, Leads Life of Luxury in Russia
ByErika Solomon, Christiaan Triebert, Haley Willis and Ahmad Mhidi December 22, 2025December 24, 2025

Bashar al-Assad’s long, brutal reign ended swiftly, but he and his close circle have had a soft landing in Russia.

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After the Assad Regime’s Fall, His Enforcers Are Lying Low and Living Large
By December 22, 2025December 24, 2025

A Times investigation into the whereabouts of top Syrian officials who fled after the regime’s fall shows many remain free — shielded by wealth and accommodating host nations.

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Childbirth under attack: how women and babies became targets in conflicts around the world
ByLiz Cookman, Tom Levitt, Hoda Osman and Zeinab Mohammed Salih December 22, 2025

Guardian investigation reveals at least 119 direct attacks on hospitals and delivery wards since start of wars in Ukraine, Gaza and SudanThirty women were sheltering in the Saudi maternity hospital in El Fasher, Sudan, on 28 October when the massacre b…

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