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Syria’s dwindling Jewish community can visit one of the world’s oldest synagogues again

Syria's civil war left one of the world's oldest synagogues partially destroyed. Now Syria's handful of remaining Jews are making pilgrimages to the synagogue in a Damascus suburb where people from throughout the region once came to pray.

Christian Science Monitor · 6h

In Syria, small Jewish community can again visit synagogue built 720 years before Christ

Near Damascus, Syria, remaining Jews can again visit one of the world’s oldest synagogues where people throughout the region once came to pray.

scmp.com · 7h

Syria’s Jewish community continues to dwindle post-Assad

Syria was once home to one of the world’s largest Jewish communities, with numbers shrinking dramatically after Israel was created in 1948.

Associated Press · 15h

Syria’s dwindling Jewish community revisit revered synagogue heavily damaged in civil war

In a Damascus suburb, the head of Syria's tiny Jewish community visits the newly accessible Joba synagogue for the first time in 15 years.

Syria's New Leader Says Elections Could Take 4 Years

Hosted on MSN · 3h

New elections could take up to four years, Syria rebel leader says

Holding new elections in Syria could take up to four years, rebel leader Ahmed al-Sharaa has said in a broadcast interview. This is the first time he has given a timeline for possible elections in Syria since his group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) led a rebel offensive that ousted former President Bashar al-Assad.

Reuters on MSN · 8h

Syria's de facto leader says holding elections could take up to four years

Israeli forces detained more than 240 Palestinians including dozens of medical staff from a north Gaza hospital they raided on Friday, including its director, according to the Health Ministry in the enclave and Israel's military.

Barron's · 1h

Syria's New Leader Says Elections Could Take Four Years: Al Arabiya Interview

Syria's leader Ahmed al-Sharaa said new elections could take four years and that drafting a new constitution could take three, in an interview with Saudi-owned Al Arabiya television on Sunday.

Syria, Israel

The Straits Times · 10m

Syria monitor says ‘likely’ Israeli airstrike on weapons depot kills 11

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the airstrike was targeted at a weapons depot belonging to Assad’s regime. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The Washington Post · 3h

An Israeli airstrike near the Syrian capital kills 11, war monitor says

A war monitor in Syria says an Israeli airstrike in the outskirts of Damascus has killed at least 11 people as Israel continues to target Syrian weapons and military infrastructure even after the oust

Barron's · 2h

Syria Monitor Says Weapons Depot Blast Kills 11

An explosion at a weapons depot near Syria's capital Damascus on Sunday killed 11 people, a war monitor said, weeks after rebels ousted longtime leader Bashar al-Assad.

Syria, Assad

DPA International on MSN · 7h

Syria's interim government to disband al-Assad's security agencies

Syria's transitional government has vowed to dissolve and restructure all security agencies of the toppled dictator Bashar al-Assad's regime accused of mass killings and abuses. Al-Assad, who ruled Syria for more than two decades,

The New York Times · 22h

Syria’s New Government Steps Up Pursuit of Assad Loyalists

Finding the remnants of the old dictatorship and bringing them to justice has emerged as a top priority for the new administration in Syria.

PBS · 1d

Syria’s new rulers try to contain growing tensions involving Assad loyalists

Unrest is brewing in Syria’s coastal plains, home to the Assad family’s Alawite sect. Earlier this week, a group of regime loyalists staged an ambush on the now-governing rebel forces, killing 14. With the Shia Alawite sect making up only 10 percent of the population in the majority Sunni country,

Syria, Lebanon

LA Times on MSN · 22h

Syria's embassy in Lebanon suspends services as Lebanon hands over former Syrian army officers

Lebanese authorities have handed over dozens of Syrians — including former officers in the Syrian army under Assad — to the new Syrian government.

Reuters · 1d

Lebanon returns 70 officers and soldiers to Syria, security official says

Many senior Syrian officials and people close to the former ruling family fled the country to neighbouring Lebanon after Assad's regime was toppled.

Daily Post Nigeria on MSN · 13h

Lebanon expels 70 officers, soldiers to Syria

A Lebanese security official and war monitor said the country on Saturday expelled no fewer than 70 Syrian officers and soldiers, returning them to Syria after they crossed into the country illegally via informal routes.

U.S. News & World Report8h

Syria's De Facto Leader Says It Could Take up to 4 Years to Hold Elections

Syria's De Facto Leader Says It Could Take up to 4 Years to Hold Elections BEIRUT (AP) — Syria's de facto leader said ...

Syria’s Alawite Minority, Favored by the Assads, Looks Nervously to the Future

Amid an outcry for justice and accountability and threats online, a once-dominant group is feeling deep anxiety after the ...

Syria's head of intelligence says security institution to be restructured

The newly appointed head of intelligence services in Syria said the country's security institution will be restructured after ...

New leaders in Damascus call for cordial Syria ties with a resistant Israel

"Our problem is not with Israel. We don't want to meddle in anything that will threaten Israel's security," Damascus Governor ...

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Iraq repatriates nearly 100 nationals from Syria

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iraqi government on Sunday returned another batch of nearly 100 nationals, who had fled to Syria ...

Brit wife of exiled Syria dictator Bashar Al-Assad 'barred from UK' amid cancer battle

London-born Asma Al-Assad is said to have a "50-50" chance of surviving leukaemia, but won't be allowed back to the UK after ...

Foreign Affairs2d

Putin Chose Ukraine Over Syria

Russia’s abandonment of the Assad regime to marshal more resources for the fight against Ukraine vividly illustrates that ...

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Lebanon hopes for neighbourly relations in first message to new Syria government

Lebanon said on Thursday it was looking forward to having the best neighbourly relations with Syria after the fall of Bashar ...

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