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Why Trump’s Abraham Accords Have Not Meant Mideast Peace
ByVivian Nereim July 13, 2025July 13, 2025

The 2020 agreements addressed diplomacy and commerce, not conflicts or the Palestinians. Predictions that the deals would produce regional peace were baseless, analysts say.

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After Decades of Hostility, Israeli-Syrian Relations Begin to Thaw
ByChristina Goldbaum, Adam Rasgon and Aaron Boxerman July 9, 2025

The longtime enemies have opened contacts, reflecting a power shift across a Middle East in which they have newfound common ground: antipathy for Iran.

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al-Shara, Ahmed (Abu Mohammad al-Jolani) (1982- ) | Golan Heights | International Relations | Iran | Iran's nuclear programme | Israel | Israel–Iran War | Syria | United States International Relations | War and Armed Conflicts

After Decades as Enemies, Syria and Israel Now Share a Common Foe
ByChristina Goldbaum, Adam Rasgon and Aaron Boxerman July 9, 2025July 9, 2025

The longtime enemies have opened contacts, reflecting a power shift across a Middle East in which they have newfound common ground: antipathy for Iran.

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Wildfires Scar Syria Anew
ByEuan Ward July 9, 2025

The country is experiencing its worst drought in decades, which has set the conditions for the blazes to scorch an area the size of Washington, D.C.

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Wildfires Scar Syria Anew
ByEuan Ward July 9, 2025July 9, 2025

The country is experiencing its worst drought in decades, which has set the conditions for the blazes to scorch an area the size of Washington, D.C.

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How the Assad Regime Built a Mass Grave in Syria
By July 7, 2025

Months after President Bashar al-Assad’s regime was toppled, Charlie Smart, a reporter at The New York Times, traveled to a mass burial site in Syria to understand how the Assad regime hid the bodies of the people it had made disappear.

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How the Assad Regime Built a Mass Grave in Syria
By July 7, 2025

Months after President Bashar al-Assad’s regime was toppled, Charlie Smart, a reporter at The New York Times, traveled to a mass burial site in Syria to understand how the Assad regime hid the bodies of the people it had made disappear.

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Britain re-establishing relations with Syria, announces David Lammy
ByReuters July 5, 2025

Foreign secretary says it is in UK’s ‘interests to support new government’ in first visit by British minister for 14 yearsBritain is re-establishing diplomatic relations with Syria after the country’s years-long civil war, the foreign secretary, David …

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Britain re-establishing relations with Syria, announces David Lammy
ByReuters July 5, 2025

Foreign secretary says it is in UK’s ‘interests to support new government’ in first visit by British minister for 14 yearsBritain is re-establishing diplomatic relations with Syria after the country’s years-long civil war, the foreign secretary, David …

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Wildfires Sweep Syria’s Coast as Drought Strains Fragile State
ByEuan Ward July 4, 2025

Firefighting efforts have been hampered by the presence of mines and unexploded ordnance left over from the civil war, as the country grapples with the worst drought in decades.

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