Scores of people were reported killed in Syria on Friday as members of the government’s security forces clashed with loyalists of deposed president Bashar al-Assad for a second day, marking the most violent episode for the country’s new leaders since the fall […]
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Hassan Nasrallah, the veteran leader of the Hizbollah militant group, will be buried on Sunday in Beirut, almost five months after he was killed in an Israeli air strike, following a ceremony attended by tens of thousands of people. Clutching
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Syria’s new government has triggered outrage after introducing an overhaul of the education curriculum that critics argue will impose an
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Members of Syria’s new police force have been killed in clashes in Tartus province, marking the most violent night since
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On a recent morning in the Syrian province of Latakia, more than a hundred former soldiers stood quietly, their eyes wide and cautious as they waited to register with the country’s new rebel rulers. A man in fatigues walked around
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Syria’s rebel factions have agreed to disband and become part of the interim government’s defence ministry as the new administration
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Syria’s largest oil refinery has halted operations after ceasing to receive the crude from Iran that previously made up the
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Syrian rebel groups that ousted Bashar al-Assad are to disband their military wings and form an army, the head
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Syria’s deposed president Bashar al-Assad has denied that his exit from the country was pre-arranged, saying that he stayed until
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Last Sunday, Abdel Rahman was serving a 15-year sentence in a cramped cell in Syria’s notorious Saydnaya prison, after an altercation with a corrupt police officer last year in Damascus. By Friday morning, he was in the ancient market of
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