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  • Israel admits destroying Assad’s navy as it creates ‘sterile defence zone’

    IDF says troops are stationed in the demilitarised buffer zone to prevent ‘an Oct 7 scenario from Syria’

    Jotam Confino 10 Dec 2024, 2:36pm
    Israeli soldiers in southern Syria
  • Netanyahu testifies in court on corruption charges for first time

    Israeli prime minister, who is charged with multiple crimes, claims he is being hounded by Left-wing media

    Jotam Confino 10 Dec 2024, 1:16pm
    Benjamin Netanyahu appears in court in Tel Aviv on Dec 10
  • Peppa Pig discourages girls from taking jobs in construction, says Spanish MP

    Cartoon presents workers as ‘giant, muscular men’ and teaches girls the industry is ‘not for them’, claims Marta Serrano

    Kieran Kelly 10 Dec 2024, 1:00pm
    Marta Serrano, Spain's secretary general for land transport
  • Watch: Greta Thunberg declares ‘f--- Israel’ at German demonstration

    Climate change activist filmed shouting expletives at pro-Palestine rally in Mannheim

    James Crisp 10 Dec 2024, 11:51am
    Greta Thunberg attends a solidarity with Palestine event in Germany
  • The fall of Assad is a golden opportunity for Erdogan

    And the end of free passage for Iran to supply Hezbollah is more than welcome

    Tom Tugendhat
    Tom Tugendhat 10 Dec 2024, 6:28am
    Erdogan
  • Germany to close loophole that made country a hub for Channel migrant boats

    Home Secretary signs landmark deal to make facilitating migrant smuggling to UK a criminal offence amid 12 per cent increase in crossings

    Charles Hymas 9 Dec 2024, 10:30pm
    German police raid a network involved in assisting migrants across the Channel on Dec 4
  • Putin and I are the only significant world leaders left, Erdogan says

    Turkish president makes claim as Ankara-supported Syrian National Army claims to have wrestled control of Manbij

    Liz Cookman 9 Dec 2024, 10:03pm
    Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's president, and Vladimir Putin, Russia's president, during a meeting in Kazakhstan in July
  • Syrian 1930s independence flag flies again across the globe

    Rebel supporters enter embassies around the world to tear down and replace old order’s two-starred banner

    Samuel Montgomery 9 Dec 2024, 9:56pm
    Rebels' flag hangs outside the Syrian embassy in London
  • Asylum cases on hold amid fears of jihadists returning to Britain

    Battle-hardened Islamic State fighters from the UK could be freed from prisons in Syria following the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad

    Robert Mendick 9 Dec 2024, 9:25pm
    Islamic State militants in northern Syria in 2015. About a dozen of the group's British fighters are said to be held in prisons in the region
  • How Syria’s delicate peace could unravel

    The country is a patchwork of armed factions and opposition groups – trying to reconcile feminists with jihadists will be tough

    Adrian Blomfield 9 Dec 2024, 8:02pm
    Syrians in Damascus on Monday celebrating the fall of the Assad regime
  • Iran’s armed forces ‘at war with themselves’ over fall of Assad

    Blame game being played out in Tehran over how and why Syria fell – and whose fault it was

    Roland Oliphant 9 Dec 2024, 8:00pm
    Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is due to speak on Iranian TV on Wednesday
  • Carved cave turtle may have been worshipped 35,000 years before Christianity

    Sculpture found in Galilee was made with human tools and could be a ‘totem or spiritual figure,’ experts say

    Sarah Knapton 9 Dec 2024, 8:00pm
    Carved turtle rock from Manot Cave in Israel
  • Dinner with Putin is out – but Assad will not lack for luxury in Moscow exile

    Deposed Syrian leader has sought refuge in Russia joining other unseated former pro-Kremlin dictators given sanctuary in the capital

    James Kilner 9 Dec 2024, 7:19pm
    Bashar al-Assad and Vladimir Putin - Dinner with Putin is out, but Assad will not lack for luxury in Moscow exile
  • Syrian regime soldiers granted amnesty

    Samuel Montgomery 9 Dec 2024, 7:12pm
    An anti-regime fighter waves an Islamic flag from atop a tank in Damascus on Dec 9
  • Russia scrambling to keep hold of key Syria bases as Putin faces loss of gateway to Africa

    Russian leader determined to retain prized military posts such as Khmeimim and Tartus, from which warplanes and warships have been evacuated

    James Kilner 9 Dec 2024, 5:35pm
    Russia wants to keep hold of key sites like the Khmeimim air base near Latakia, Syria
  • Israel strikes Syrian chemical weapons depots and orders complete seizure of buffer zone

    Netanyahu out to ‘prevent an October 7 scenario’ from its neighbour amid fears of a power vacuum following the fall of Assad

    Jotam Confino 9 Dec 2024, 5:04pm
    Israeli war planes strike Mazzeh Air Base in Syria - Israel orders complete capture of Syria buffer zone and destruction of Assad weapons
  • Inside Saudi Arabia’s plan to tame the desert and turn its capital into a cool green oasis

    Riyadh aims to reduce the overall average temperature by two degrees celsius with four environmental ‘megaprojects’

    Arthur Scott-Geddes 9 Dec 2024, 4:31pm
    Al-Urubah Park, one of the largest parks in the city of ‎Riyadh
  • Sarkozy’s 13-year-old daughter described as ‘more of a woman than ever’ on magazine cover

    Coverage of former French president’s child prompts fury with some calling it ‘shocking’ and ‘inappropriate’

    Peter Allen 9 Dec 2024, 4:09pm
    Giulia Sarkozy and Nicolas Sarkozy
  • Iron body presses and torture rope: horrors of Syria’s ‘slaughterhouse’ prison emerge

    Syria braces to discover the fate of over 100,000 inmates subjected to horrific abuse as rescue teams liberate the Sednaya military prison

    Sarah Newey 9 Dec 2024, 3:16pm
    Rescue teams liberating the Sednaya military prison find red ropes used to torture and execute inmates
  • Biden in secret talks with rebels as they greet new dawn in Syria

    US president reassured Hayat Tahrir al-Sham has no intention of allowing IS into its movement

    Kieran Kelly 9 Dec 2024, 2:53pm
    Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, the leader of the Syrian rebels
  • France and Germany suspend asylum applications as Europe closes door on Syrians

    Asylum requests put on hold pending more clarity on situation after overthrow of Assad regime as Austria also prepares for deportations

    Daniel Hardaker 9 Dec 2024, 2:04pm
    Syrians wait to cross into Syria from Turkey at the Cilvegozu Border Gate in the Reyhanli district
  • The Silent Service is coming. Watch out, China

    ‘You can be sure the enemy would give much for the smallest facts on how they operate’

    David Axe
    David Axe 9 Dec 2024, 1:47pm
    HMS Ambush, an Astute class attack submarine of the Royal Navy. An Astute class boat will be based in Australia as part of the Australia-UK-US (Aukus) alliance
  • How Argentina came to love Milei’s golden chainsaw

    ‘No one is enjoying it. We have come this far, we need to see it through’: Despite the president’s draconian economic reforms, support grows

    Simeon Tegel 9 Dec 2024, 1:46pm
    Javier Milei wielding a chainsaw
  • Rats, pigeons and water buffaloes massacred in world’s largest animal sacrifice

    At least 200,000 animals were sacrificed at Gadhimai, dubbed the ‘world’s bloodiest festival’

    Gaurav Pokharel 9 Dec 2024, 1:43pm
    Gadhimai sacrifice in Nepal December 2019
  • Zelensky says 400,000 Ukrainian troops killed or injured in war

    Casualty figures released after Trump publishes data as evidence of reason why war must end

    James Kilner 9 Dec 2024, 6:30am
    A memorial for fallen servicemen in Kyiv
  • Fall of the House of Assad, with a billion-pound fortune and blood on its hands

    How a gangly eye doctor became a brutal dictator presiding over 13 years of carnage that claimed the lives of over half a million people

    Adrian Blomfield 9 Dec 2024, 6:00am
    Bashar al-Assad and his family
  • It’s happened again. We got rid of warships and then wished we hadn’t

    It keeps happening. Decommission warships, and straight away you need them back

    Tom Sharpe
    Tom Sharpe 9 Dec 2024, 5:01am
    HMS Albion
  • Assad offered asylum in Russia after rebels topple Syria regime

    Roland Oliphant 9 Dec 2024, 3:06am
    Syrian rebels celebrate their victory at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus
  • US launches air strikes on Isis targets in Syria

    Joe Biden warns that terror group ‘will try to take advantage of any vacuum to re-establish its capabilities to create a safe haven’

    Tony Diver 8 Dec 2024, 8:45pm
    Joe Biden
  • Israel seizes land on Syrian border and bombs Damascus

    IDF has captured a buffer zone in the Golan Heights to protect Israeli residents, says Benjamin Netanyahu

    Melanie Swan 8 Dec 2024, 8:33pm
    Troops raise the Israeli flag after taking control of the Golan Heights
  • ‘Retribution will be through success’ says Trump as he denies ordering FBI to go after enemies

    President-elect claims he will call for ‘unity’ at his Jan 20 inauguration and focus on energy policy over revenge

    Tony Diver 8 Dec 2024, 8:14pm
    US president-elect Donald Trump at the UK Ambassador's residence in Paris
  • Toddler released from jail with hopes of Syria on his shoulders

    Collapse of the Assad regime brings exuberant euphoria to Syrians across the globe while new rebel leader faces new challenges ahead

    Roland Oliphant 8 Dec 2024, 8:00pm
    Toddler's rescue from Syria's most notorious prison is perhaps the most fitting symbol of Bashar al-Assad's downfall

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