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Israel, Syria and Damascus

Netanyahu says Israel won't allow Syrian forces 'south of Damascus'

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will not allow Syria’s new army or the insurgent group that led the ouster of former President Bashar Assad to “enter the area south of Damascus” as his government made clear Israeli forces would stay in parts of southern Syria for an indefinite period.

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Israeli warplanes strike south of Damascus

Israeli warplanes hit a town south of Syria's capital as well as the southern province of Daraa late on Tuesday, residents, security sources and local broadcaster Syria TV said. Israeli planes struck the town of Kisweh approximately 20 kilometres (12 miles) south of Damascus,

BBC · 1d

Israel demands complete demilitarisation of southern Syria

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has demanded the complete demilitarisation of much of southern Syria. It is an announcement that could make conflict between Israel and the new leadership in Syria,

Syria holds national dialogue to chart a path

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Damascus distance: the number of participants in the national dialogue has been narrowed in Syria

About 600 delegates attended the national dialogue conference in Syria, although about a thousand were originally planned to attend. In particular, the Kurdish factions did not receive invitations, their representatives told Izvestia.

Public Radio International · 18h

Syria national dialogue conference held in Damascus

Hundreds of Syrians gathered this week in Damascus for the first Syrian national dialogue conference since the fall of former President Bashar al-Assad’s regime in December. Attendees came from Syria’s diverse ethnic and minority communities with the goal of charting Syria’s political transition.

The Washington Post on MSN · 10h

Syria holds national dialogue to chart a path after Bashar al-Assad

Nearly three months after Bashar al-Assad fled, much of Syria is suspended between relief at the dictatorship’s demise and anxiety over what comes next.

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Rojava authorities slam Damascus for exclusion in key conference

The Kurdish administration in northeast Syria (Rojava) on Tuesday censured the National Dialogue Conference in Damascus as ...

Dancing in Damascus: Syrians cling to culture under Islamists' rule

On a wintry night in Damascus, hundreds of people packed into a courtyard in the Old City, dancing and singing during a ...

Boise State Public Radio13h

Syrian Jews return to Damascus hoping to rebuild a community

The overthrow of the Assad regime in Syria paved the way for a historic visit, with Syrian Jews returning from the U.S. to Damascus for the first time in three decades, hoping to rebuild community.

U.S. News & World Report6d

After Decades in Exile, Syria's Jews Visit Damascus

DAMASCUS (Reuters) - For the first time in three decades, Rabbi Joseph Hamra and his son Henry read from a Torah scroll in a synagogue in the heart of Syria's capital Damascus, carefully passing ...

Syria's northeast begins supplying oil to Damascus, oil ministry says

Kurdish-led authorities in northeast Syria have begun providing oil from local fields they manage to the central government in Damascus, Syrian oil ministry spokesman Ahmed Suleiman told Reuters on ...