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Germany presses ahead with deportations to Afghanistan
AFP, Published on 18/07/2025
» BERLIN - Germany said on Friday it had deported 81 Afghan men convicted of crimes to their Taliban-controlled homeland, as Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s government looks to signal a hard line on immigration.
New clashes rock Syria’s Druze heartland
AFP, Published on 18/07/2025
» WALGHA, Syria - Armed tribes supported by Syria’s Islamist-led government clashed with Druze fighters in the community’s Sweida heartland on Friday, a day after the army withdrew under Israeli bombardment and diplomatic pressure.
In the 'kingdom of silence', the caged bird raps
Oped, Published on 18/07/2025
» In Syria, the caged bird raps. On my first night imprisoned, I began to write:
Israel attacks Syria in defence of Druze, moves troops north
Bloomberg News, Published on 17/07/2025
» Israel struck Syria’s military headquarters in Damascus on Wednesday and moved more troops to the border in a bid, officials said, to prevent attacks against the Syrian Druze community.
Israel bombs Syrian army headquarters
AFP, Published on 16/07/2025
» SWEIDA, Syria - Israel said it bombed Syrian army headquarters in Damascus on Wednesday after warning the Islamist-led government to leave the Druze minority alone in its Sweida heartland where a monitor says sectarian clashes have killed nearly 250 people.
Syria deploys forces after dozens killed in Bedouin-Druze clashes
AFP, Published on 14/07/2025
» DAMASCUS - Syria deployed security forces Monday in the southern province of Sweida after at least 50 people were killed in clashes between Sunni Bedouin tribes and Druze fighters, a monitor said.
Syria's wheat war: drought fuels food crisis for 16 million
AFP, Published on 27/06/2025
» DAMASCUS - Rival Syrian and Kurdish producers are scrambling for shrinking wheat harvests as the worst drought in decades follows a devastating war, pushing more than 16 million people toward food insecurity.
Global cocaine market hits record high, says UN
AFP, Published on 26/06/2025
» VIENNA - Cocaine production, seizures and use all hit record highs in 2023, the United Nations (UN) drug agency said on Thursday, with the illicit drug's market the world's fastest-growing.
Syria announces arrests over Damascus church attack
AFP, Published on 24/06/2025
» DAMASCUS - Syrian authorities on Monday announced arrests over a suicide blast targeting a church blamed on the Islamic State group, as President Ahmed al-Sharaa vowed those involved in the "heinous" attack would face justice.
At least 20 killed in suicide attack on Damascus church
AFP, Published on 23/06/2025
» DAMASCUS - At least 20 people were killed Sunday in a suicide attack on a church in Damascus, authorities said, with Syria's interior ministry blaming a member of the Islamic State group.