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  • Syrian government forces intervene in Sweida on July 20, amid sectarian violence between Druze factions and Bedouin tribes.
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    Israeli strikes left Syria ‘stunned’ and makes normalization ‘difficult,’ Syrian foreign minister says
  • US President Donald Trump speaks a he meets with Polish President Karol Nawrocki in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC on September 3, 2025.  (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)
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    Live Updates September 23, 2025: Trump takes shots at UN, climate change and immigration policies in speech
  • An employee places the Palestinian flag along side the French Flag, the flag of Lyon, and the European Union flag, over the entrance of the Lyon City Hall, in eastern France, on the day France plans the recognition of a Palestinian State at the United Nations on September 22. Over 50 town halls in France were flying the Palestinian flag on September 22, 2025, in defiance of an interior ministry warning not to do so ahead of the recognition of a Palestinian state by French President Emmanuel Macron.
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    Live Updates September 22, 2025: UN two-state solution summit and Middle East news
  • Syrians elect new members of the Parliament in Damascus on July 15, 2024.
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    Syria to hold parliamentary ballot in September as first elections since Assad’s removal
  • This September 2024 photo shows US forces patrolling oil fields in Syria.
    Delil Souleiman/AFP/Getty Images/File
    US military kills ISIS leader in Syria
  • Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump as they pose together at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, in 1997.
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    As the Epstein saga rages, Trump is getting a pass on his role in the building famine in Gaza
  • Hosam Saraya, a 34-year-old Syrian-American, was identified by a friend as one of eight men whose killing was captured on a video that circulated on social media over the weekend.
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    US citizen among eight Druze family members executed during Syria’s sectarian violence
  • Smoke billows from Israeli bombardment as pictured from Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on July 21, 2025. (Photo by Eyad BABA / AFP) (Photo by EYAD BABA/AFP via Getty Images)
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    Eyad Baba/AFP/Getty Images
    Live Updates July 22, 2025: Gaza death tolls rise due to starvation as Israel ramps up offensive
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  • President Donald Trump arrives on Air Force One in Des Moines, Iowa, on July 3.
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    Post-Iran crisis: A full agenda for Trump and Netanyahu
    Jul 7, 2025
  • Smoke rises into the sky during a wildfire in the town of Rabia, Syria, in the Latakia countryside, on Saturday.
    Ghaith Alsayed/AP
    Wildfires sweep through forests in drought-hit Syrian coast in major test for new government
    Jul 6, 2025
  • A civil defense member inspects the damage after a reported attack at the Mar Elias Church in the Dweila neighbourhood of Damascus, Syria, on June 22.
    Firas Makdesi/Reuters
    Suicide bomber attack on church in Syria kills at least 20 people
    Jun 23, 2025
  • Women in Damascus, Syria, celebrate the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024.
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    Syria orders women to cover up on beaches with conservative new dress code
    Jun 10, 2025
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  • <p>In the context of months of Israeli airstrikes on Syria, Fareed speaks with Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani at the Council on Foreign Relations about whether peace with its neighbor is possible.</p>
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    Video On GPS: Syria’s foreign minister on the prospects for peace with Israel 5:46
    Sep 28, 2025
  • <p>Fareed sits down with Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani at the Council on Foreign Relations to discuss his transition from rebel to statesman and the future of religious minorities in Syria.</p>
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    Video On GPS: Syrian FM on the country’s post-Assad future 5:43
    Sep 28, 2025
  • This aerial view shows smoke rising in the city of Suwayda in southern Syria's Druze majority province on July 19, 2025. At least 718 people have been killed in Syria's Suwayda province, a war monitor said on July 19 in an updated toll for nearly a week of violence in the heartland of the Druze minority.
    Omar Jah Kadour/AFP/Getty Images
    Video As Syria’s president gains global recognition, Druze minority in the country is still haunted by violence in Suwayda 6:48
    Sep 26, 2025
  • <p>A rift is emerging between the US and Israel over Syria, after Israeli airstrikes hit the capital Damascus last week. Fareed speaks with Atlantic<em> </em>contributing<em> </em>writer Robert Worth about the shifting alliances shaping the Middle East after the fall of the country's former dictator, Bashar al-Assad.</p>
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    Video On GPS: The US and Israel’s rift over Syria 6:22
    Jul 27, 2025

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