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US-backed fighters chase IS gunmen near prison in Syria

Officials and activists say Kurdish-led fighters advanced slowly under the cover of U.S.-led coalition air power in Syria’s northeast

The Independent UK

Syria-born local assembly member aims to narrow mindset gaps in Japan

Last September, newly elected assembly member Nour Soltan posed his first question to the town assembly of Shonai, Yamagata Prefecture.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

EU Says Won’t Contribute to Syria’s Reconstruction Without Genuine Political Transition

The European Union said it will be ready to assist in the reconstruction of Syria only when a comprehensive, genuine and inclusive political transition is firmly under way. It recalled that a sustainable solution to the conflict requires a genuine, inclusive political transition in line with UN Security Council Resolution…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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ISIS Jailbreak, Attacks in Syria, Iraq Raise Alarm; Scores Die

The ISIS group unleashed its biggest attack in Syria since the fall of its “caliphate” three years ago.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Syrian Arts and Culture Festival 2022 comes to London for the first time

The first London edition of the festival aims to tell new stories from a rich culture still little-known in Britain

Evening Standard

Isis gunmen launch major attacks in Iraq and Syria

Attack on prison called worst since 2019, when Isis was officially declared defeated

The Independent UK

On the hunt for Syrian war criminals hiding out in Europe

On January 13, in the first European trial against a high-ranking Syrian regime official, a former senior intelligence officer was sentenced to life in prison in Germany for crimes against humanity. Former head of interrogation at a detention centre in Damascus, Anwar Raslan was found guilty on 4,000 counts of…

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IS gunmen mount deadly attacks in Syria, Iraq; dozens killed

Members of the Islamic State group have launched two sophisticated, deadly attacks in Syria and Iraq, including an attempt to break into a prison where suspected extremists are being held by U.S.-backed fighters

The Independent UK

Dozens killed as Islamic State attacks in Syria and Iraq

Kurdish-led forces in Syria killed 23 Islamic State militants including foreigners in clashes after the jihadist group attacked a prison in the northeastern city of Hasaka on Thursday, a military source in the Kurdish-led forces said.

Reuters

Syria: Hunger Knocks On Parliament’s Door

A member of Syria’s parliament has warned that some of his colleagues were facing hunger, amid a severe living crisis which is expected to worsen with a government decision to increase fuel prices. On his Facebook page, MP Nasser Youssef Al-Nasser called on Prime Minister Hussein Arnous to resign, pointing…

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Kurdish security forces killed, IS fighters freed in major Syrian prison break

The Islamic State group on Friday attacked a prison in Syria housing fellow jihadists in one of the group's most significant attacks since its self-declared "caliphate" was defeated in the war-torn country nearly three years ago.

France 24

Is There a Link Between Syria and Ukraine?

Geneva is hosting two meetings on Friday. The first between US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, to discuss Ukraine, and the second between UN Envoy to Syria Geir Pedersen and US Official Ethan Goldrich to review the Syrian situation and propose a “step for…

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Monitor: ISIS Attacks Syria Prison, Frees Militants

ISIS attacked a Kurdish-run jail in northeast Syria on Thursday, freeing fellow militants, a war monitor reported without specifying how many escaped, AFP reported. A car bomb hit the entrance of the Ghwayran prison and a second blast went off in the vicinity before ISIS militants attacked Kurdish security forces…

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Islamic State militants attack prison in Syria's al-Hasaka, U.S.-backed SDF says

Islamic State militants attacked a prison in Syria's al-Hasaka in an attempt to free prisoners belonging to the group who had mutinied, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said in a statement on Thursday.

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Snowstorm brings more misery for Syrians at IDP camps

Dozens of families in an IDP camp in northwestern Syria have been trapped for two days amid a winter storm.

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Shelling Kills 4 People in Syria's Afrin

At least four people were killed and more than a dozen injured in shelling on the Syrian city of Afrin and a separate rocket attack on its outskirts on Thursday, medics at a local hospital and civil defense rescue workers said. They were the latest in years of attacks on…

The Independent UK

Group: 4 killed in rocket attack on northern town in Syria

Syrian rescuers and a war monitor say a rocket attack on a town controlled by Turkey-backed opposition fighters in northern Syria killed four civilians and wounded over a dozen people

Evening Standard

Far Right activist Tommy Robinson pursued by creditors for £2million

Tommy Robinson is being pursued by creditors to the tune of £2million after he was ordered to compensate a Syrian schoolboy he wrongly accused of attacking a girl.

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Lebanese Museum Returns Artifacts from Syria's Palmyra

Five Roman artifacts from the ancient city of Palmyra, a site damaged during Syria's decade-long conflict, were returned to Damascus on Thursday by a private Lebanese museum where they had been on display since 2018. The limestone statues and carved funerary stones dating from the Roman second and third centuries…

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Lebanese museum returns artefacts from Syria's ancient city of Palmyra

Five Roman artefacts from the ancient city of Palmyra, a site damaged during Syria's decade-long conflict, were returned to Damascus on Thursday by a private Lebanese museum where they had been on display since 2018.

The Guardian - UK

Tommy Robinson pursued for estimated £2m debt after bankruptcy claim

Syrian schoolboy who won libel case against anti-Islam activist has not seen penny of £100,000 damages

Reuters

Shelling kills four people in Syria's Afrin

Reuters

Storm blankets Syrian tented camps in snow, at least one child dead

At least one child was killed in northern Syria this week when a storm blanketed tented camps in snow and brought freezing temperatures, compounding the misery of thousands of people displaced by the Mediterranean country's decade-long war.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Saudi Crown Prince Meets with Russia's Special Presidential Envoy for Syrian Settlement

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, met in Riyadh on Thursday with Russia's Special Presidential Envoy for Syrian Settlement Alexander Lavrentiev, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported. The envoy conveyed the greetings of President Vladimir Putin to the Crown Prince, who in…

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Harsh Winter Hits Syria, Lebanon and Jordan, Taking Toll on Refugees

Harsh winter weather with heavy snowfall and freezing temperatures hit Syria, Lebanon and Jordan on Wednesday, worsening the plight of thousands of Syrian refugees displaced in the region. Temperatures are expected to hit an all-time 40-year low, reaching minus 14 degrees Celsius and even lower, according to aid organizations, including…

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