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 A TORN portrait of deposed Syrian president Bashar al-Assad inside the ransacked Presidential Palace in Damascus, December 10, 2024.

Voices from the Arab press: Syria after Assad: Four urgent challenges

By THE MEDIA LINE
 IRELAND HAS joined South Africa in its accusations of genocide at Israel. Here, jurist Malcolm Shaw looks on at the ICJ during a ruling on South Africa’s request to order a halt to Israel’s Rafah offensive in Gaza in May.

Ireland’s ICJ bid to redefine genocide suggests it knows accusations can't hold ground

By Nathan Klabin/The Media Line
 PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump, during his first term as US president, arrive to deliver joint remarks on the ‘Deal of the Century’ proposal, at the White House in 2020.

Voices from the Arab press: Trump should pressure Israel, not Hamas

By THE MEDIA LINE
 Damage around Qamishli International Airport area, in Syria, December 10, 2024

Global watchdog convenes emergency session on Syria’s chemical weapons

By THE MEDIA LINE
 PEOPLE CELEBRATE the ouster of President Bashar al-Assad, in Sednaya, Syria, this week. The spectacular collapse of the Assad regime has introduced both uncertainty and opportunity, the writer notes.

For Palestinians, Syria is a closing door and an opening window

By Elias Zananiri/The Media Line
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at court, 12 December 2024

Netanyahu’s resilience: How he stays in power after October 7

By YISRAEL MEDAD/THE MEDIA LINE
 Syrian Kurds flash the V for victory sign as they celebrate the fall of capital Damascus to anti-government fighters, in the city of Qamishli on December 8, 2024.

Kurds and HTS: Tensions rise in Syria’s fragile new government

By Nathan Klabin/The Media Line
 Birds fly during sunset with the Cairo skyline visible in the background during foggy cold weather, Egypt, February 1, 2024.

Eight confirmed dead in Cairo building collapse

By THE MEDIA LINE STAFF
 Rebel fighters pose as they hold a Syrian opposition flag at the Umayyad Mosque, after rebels seized the capital and ousted Syria's Bashar al-Assad, in Damascus, Syria December 9, 2024.

Syrian opposition leader reacts to Netanyahu’s strikes on Syria

By Rizik Alabi/The Media Line
 Syrian rebels behind Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, ex-Syrian president Bashar al-Assad (illustration).

Turkey recalibrates its Syria strategy amid Assad’s fall

By Giorgia Valente/The Media Line
 Tanks stand after rebels led by HTS have sought to capitalize on their swift takeover of Aleppo in the north and Hama in west-central Syria by pressing onwards to Homs, in Hama, Syria December 6, 2024.

Syria can help Israel 'completely destroy armies without war,' expert says

By KEREN SETTON/THE MEDIA LINE
 The Bab al-Hawa border crossing between Syria and Turkey, December 8, 2024.

Syrians return home after 11 years in exile, face legal and infrastructure hurdles

By Rizik Alabi/The Media Line
 A view shows the office of TikTok after the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill that would give TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance about six months to divest the U.S. assets of the short-video app or face a ban, in Culver City, California, March 13, 2024.

TikTok owner ByteDance seeks delay on US ban over divestment order

By THE MEDIA LINE STAFF
 Torn posters of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and late Iran's Revolutionary Guards' top commander Qassem Soleimani hang at the Iranian embassy after Syrian rebels announced that they have ousted President Bashar al-Assad, in Damascus, Syria December 8, 2024.

Iranian embassy in Damascus stormed after Assad's fall

By THE MEDIA LINE
 DAMAGED STATUE of Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin in the Russian town of Sudzha, Kursk region, seen in August 2024.

Voices of the Arab press: Russian-Western escalation: Dangerous game, unpredictable results

By THE MEDIA LINE
Iranian human rights activist and the vice president of the Defenders of Human Rights Center (DHRC) Narges Mohammadi poses in this undated handout picture.

Nobel Laureate Narges Mohammadi granted short medical leave from prison in Iran

By THE MEDIA LINE STAFF
 Clashes between Bashar Al-Assad's regime and the rebels continue as the rebels manage to take control of dozens of villages in the western countryside of Aleppo and Idlib, seizing ammunition and heavy military vehicles, on November 28, 2024.

Russia backs Syrian leadership, condemns attacks by 'terrorists'

By THE MEDIA LINE STAFF
 Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro speaks during a ceremony to mark 1000 days in government at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil September 27, 2021.

Brazil’s Bolsonaro, longtime Israel ally, faces coup plot allegations as legal troubles mount

By Nathan Klabin/The Media Line