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The moment this year I’ll never forget – podcast
By December 22, 2025

Today in Focus hears from Guardian journalists all around the world about their most memorable moments – and sounds – of 2025A cafe in Damascus, a valley in the Amazon, a sacred river in India, a detention centre in Florida and a rape trial in France.T…

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U.S. Strikes on Syria Underscore Scale of Challenge for Its President
ByAbdi Latif Dahir December 20, 2025December 20, 2025

The Syrian government did not comment directly on the extensive U.S. strikes targeting the Islamic State on Friday but said it was intensifying its own efforts to fight the group.

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Hezbollah Is Down, but Not Out, as Lebanon Faces Pressure to Disarm It
ByAaron Boxerman, Euan Ward, Natan Odenheimer and Hwaida Saad December 20, 2025December 20, 2025

The Lebanese militant group has resisted calls to lay down all its arms, risking a return to war with Israel.

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U.S. Strikes Islamic State Targets in Syria
ByEric Schmitt December 19, 2025December 20, 2025

American forces struck dozens of suspected ISIS sites, making good on President Trump’s vow to avenge two American soldiers and a civilian U.S. interpreter killed by the group last week.

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Trump Signs Law Repealing Tough Sanctions on Syria
ByAbdi Latif Dahir and Reham Mourshed December 19, 2025December 19, 2025

The Caesar Act was imposed in 2019 in response to widespread and systematic violations of human rights by the regime of former dictator Bashar al-Assad.

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Europe has lost all credibility in the Middle East. The way to regain it lies in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon | Nathalie Tocci
ByNathalie Tocci December 19, 2025

Sidelined by Trump, preoccupied with Ukraine and damaged by its immoral stance on Gaza, Europe can still help stabilise its eastern Mediterranean neighbours A year after the overthrow of Syria’s dictator, Bashar al-Assad, the former jihadi fighter turn…

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Syrian home town of Ahmed al-Ahmed rallies around the Bondi hero, amid the rubble of civil war
ByAhmad Fallaha in Nayrab, William Christou in Beirut and Ben Doherty in Sydney December 18, 2025

In Nayrab, a town near the Syrian city of Idlib, the family of Ahmed al-Ahmed have been overwhelmed by the global response to his act of braveryIt has been almost 20 years since Ahmed al-Ahmed left Nayrab in the countryside near the north-western Syria…

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Bondi Beach Shooting Is a Reminder of ISIS’s Power to Inspire Attacks
ByAdam Goldman, Eric Schmitt and Lizzie Dearden December 17, 2025December 18, 2025

ISIS is too weakened to seize territory, experts said, but its ability to churn out propaganda aimed at provoking violence against the West persists.

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Syrian relatives of Bondi hero Ahmed al-Ahmed say his home country is proud of him – video
ByMiddle East and north Africa | The Guardian December 17, 2025

As Australia’s worst mass shooting in nearly 30 years unfolded, a Sydney shop owner was captured on camera charging at one of the gunmen and disarming him. Halfway around the world in Syria, a group of men watching the footage recognised a f…

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‘Source of pride for Syria’: man who disarmed Bondi shooter lauded in home town
ByWilliam Christou and agencies December 16, 2025

News of Ahmed al-Ahmed’s selfless act quickly reached al-Nayrab, where locals say it proves religion or birthplace no barrier to heroismA man who risked his life to wrestle a gun from a shooter in the Bondi beach terror attack on Sunday has become a he…

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