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Syrian caretaker Prime Minister Mohammed al-Bashir delivers Friday sermon at the Umayyad Mosque, after fighters of the ruling Syrian body ousted Syria's Bashar al-Assad, in the Damascus old city, Syria, December 13, 2024.

A nation divided: Will Syria be better now that Assad is gone?

By MICAH HALPERN

THE ARAB Contact Group on Syria meets in Aqaba, this past Saturday. Those present included US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen, and the foreign ministers of Jordan, Egypt, Qatar, Bahrain, Turkey, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Lebanon.

Assad’s fall won’t revive the Arab Spring

An elderly woman reacts in Tadamon district, littered with bones after what residents and rights groups described as years of killings there under the rule of Syria's Bashar al-Assad, following al-Assad's ousting by fighters of the ruling Syrian body, in Damascus, Syria, December 12, 2024.

'Every shot fired went into a man': Syrians recall horrors at Tadamon

Ex-PM Naftali Bennett (left) and his FM, Yair Lapid, hold a news conference in the Knesset in 2022. After the formation of the short-lived ‘government of change’ established by Bennett and Lapid in June 2021, the opposition’s rhetoric in the Knesset deteriorated rapidly, the writer argues.

Distancing ourselves from civil war

By SUSAN HATTIS ROLEF

Families flee RSF advances in Sudan's El Gezira state, on Sennar Road in the city of al-Dinder, Sennar state, Sudan, July 18, 2024.

RSF attack on Sudanese village leaves 85 dead amid escalating violence

By THE MEDIA LINE STAFF

Yemen's Interior Minister Abdul Qader Qahtan (front R) speaks to reporters at the site where illegal drugs were burnt in Sanaa February 29, 2012. Yemeni authorities on Wednesday burned more than four tons of hashish and 4.6 million tablets of Captagon, which weighed 16kg (35 pounds).

Houthis to release key ally of Saudi-backed government, unclear if he is alive

By REUTERS

Memorial statue defaced by anti-Israel activists in New York. (Illustrative) Uploaded on 8/5/2024

Anti-Israel activists deface WWI, Civil War memorials, burn US flag

By MICHAEL STARR

Iran asked Sudan to allow a Naval Base on its Red Sea coast

By Walla!

Civilians who fled the war-torn Sudan arrive in a courtesy bus near the border crossing point in Renk County of Upper Nile State, South Sudan May 1, 2023

Rebels take control of Sudan's second-largest city, endangering refugees

By THE MEDIA LINE

‘WHAT HAPPENED to the World?’: Comedy with a Cameri cast.

Jerusalem highlights November 17-23

By HAGAY HACOHEN

Sudan’s General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan salutes as he listens to the national anthem after landing at the military airport of Port Sudan on August 27, 2023.

Sudan civil war: Still no end in sight - opinion

By NEVILLE TELLER

WE WOULD all have benefited from a different approach that left Yom Kippur outside the struggle, says the writer.

The religious-secular divide: How to calm the water, and how to stir them up - analysis

LAW PROFESSOR emeritus Shimon Shetreet, a former Labor Party MK and minister, could help draw up a formula to solve the judicial reform crisis.

Politicians can't stop the civil war time bomb - but these 2 men can - opinion

By AMOTZ ASA-EL

(L-R) Benjamin Netanyahu, Isaac Herzog, Yoav Gallant and Herzi Halevi seen in Israel's 75th Independence Day celebrations, at the President's residence in Jerusalem on April 26, 2023

‘Blood could be shed’ over judicial reform, ex-Shin Bet head warns

By YONAH JEREMY BOB , JERUSALEM POST STAFF

SUDAN’S GENERAL Abdel Fattah al-Burhan salutes for the national anthem after landing in the military airport of Port Sudan on Sunday, on his first trip away from Khartoum since the internal conflict broke out.

Sudan: A battlefield for close friends-turned-rival warlords - opinion

By NEVILLE TELLER

Smoke rises amid clashes between armed factions, in Tripoli, Libya August 15, 2023.

How Libya's capital Tripoli remains torn by violence

By MOHAMMAD AL-KASSIM/THE MEDIA LINE

NIGER’S JUNTA supporters demonstrate in front of a French army base in Niamey, Niger, last week.

Why is the Niger conflict drawing global attention? - opinion

By SALEM ALKETBI

A BOY is among those participating in stretching exercises, as part of an initiative to help people cope with the stress of war, in Sanaa, last month.

How can peace return to Yemen? - opinion

By NEVILLE TELLER