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The Latest Breaking News from Syria

‘My soul and beating heart’: Orphaned Syrian children find new family

Syrian couples who can’t have children are fostering, jofully embracing life as parents.

Al Jazeera

The Good Samaritans Who Saved Syrian Refugees

When government relief efforts fail, individuals step up.

Reason

Assad arrest warrant: ‘Hope and pain’ for Syrian chemical attack survivors

Lawyers say French arrest warrant sets ‘historic precedent’ as survivors of chemical massacre long for justice in Syria.

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Live updates | With communications down, UNRWA warns there will be no aid deliveries across Rafah

Despite the dire need for humanitarian aid in Gaza, there would be no deliveries across the Rafah border crossing from Egypt on Friday, according to the communications director for the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees

The Independent UK

The top UN court has ordered Syria to do all it can to prevent torture

The United Nations’ top court has ordered the Syrian government to “take all measures within its powers” to prevent torture

The Independent UK

Middle East Roundup: Is Shifa Hospital really a Hamas ops hub?

Raiding Gaza’s largest hospital, another communications blackout, Israel’s goals in Gaza – the Middle East this week.

Al Jazeera

US Military Bases Attacked In Iraq And Syria; Iraqi Militia Group – Shiite Claims Responsibility

The Attacks Come Barely Days After U.S. Secretary of State Blinken paid a short visit to Baghdad and held a meeting with PM.

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France issues arrest warrant for Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad

France has issued an international arrest warrant for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for complicity in crimes against humanity over chemical attacks carried out in the summer of 2013.

Radio France Internationale

France issues arrest warrant for Syria’s al-Assad

The warrant charges Syria’s president with complicity in ‘crimes against humanity and complicity in war crimes’.

Al Jazeera

France issues arrest warrants for Syrian president, 3 generals alleging involvement in war crimes

French judicial authorities have issued international arrest warrants for Syrian President Bashar Assad, his brother Maher, and two army generals alleging their involvement in war crimes and crimes against humanity, including in chemical attacks in 2013 on rebel-held Damascus suburbs, lawyers for Syrian victims said

The Independent UK

Russia, al-Assad step up Syria bombing amid world focus on Israel-Gaza war

Russian and Syrian regime attacks have killed 66 civilians since the start of October, and displaced 120,000 people.

Al Jazeera

US and Iran-backed groups trade fire in Syria. Will it get worse?

Dozens of strikes by Iran-backed groups have targeted US interests in the region as Washington keeps backing Israel.

Al Jazeera

North eastern Syria suffers from lack of water amid desertification

North eastern Syria is experiencing a drastic climate shift due to global warming. Last summer temperatures reached highs of nearly 50 degrees, 10 degrees higher than the previous seasons. As the region undergoes a process of desertification, the question of water supply remains an essential issue that must be resolved.…

France 24

UK sentences ISIL member to eight years in prison

Aine Davis, 39, sentenced to eight years for firearms possession and fundraising for ‘terrorism’.

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Evening Standard

Suspected ‘Beatles’ death squad member jailed for terror offences

Aine Leslie Davis, 39, was deported from Turkey last August.

Al Jazeera

Russian and US air strikes attack targets in Syria

Russia, Syria accused of using world’s focus on Gaza to escalate attacks in Idlib; US targets Iran-backed groups.

The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: US strikes Iran-linked sites in Syria; ANZ posts record profit; and Japan’s answers to the perfect power nap

Third airstrike on Syria in less than three weeks fuels concerns of a regional escalation of the Israel-Hamas war

The Guardian - AU

Israel-Hamas war: Brazil’s president accuses Israel of ‘killing innocent people’ – as it happened

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US carries out two more strikes on Iran-backed groups in Syria

Pentagon says it targeted training facility and a safe house in response to continued attacks on US forces.

The Independent UK

‘IS Beatle’ to be sentenced on terrorism charges

Aine Leslie Davis last month admitted having a firearm for terrorist purposes and two charges of funding terrorism.

The Independent UK

US conducts airstrikes against Iran-backed groups in Syria, retaliating for attacks on US troops

The Pentagon and U.S. officials say the U.S. military conducted airstrikes on two locations in eastern Syria involving Iranian-backed groups, hitting a training location and a weapons facility

Al Jazeera

‘Two sides of the same coin’: Activists decry Assad’s criticism of Israel

Activists say the Syrian leader’s denunciation of Israel’s actions is hypocritical — and those actions mirror his own.

Al Jazeera

For displaced Palestinians in Syria, Israel war evokes Nakba and solidarity

The war on Gaza echoes the 1948 catastrophe while fortifying the resolve of displaced Palestinians to return home.

Al Jazeera

Arab-Islamic summit rejects justifying Gaza war as Israeli self-defence

Leaders meeting in Saudi Arabia demanded aid be allowed to enter Gaza, called for cessation of arms exports to Israel.

France 24

US military buildup off Israeli coast requires balancing act between deterrence and escalation

US warplanes conducted air strikes on a weapons storage facility in Syria used by Iran-backed militants on November 8 in retaliation for the growing number of attacks on US military interests in the region, the second such strikes in less than two weeks. The strikes illustrate the delicate balancing act…

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