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Saturday, 24 October 2020, 02:46

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Syria

Coordinates: 35°N 38°E / 35°N 38°E / 35; 38

Syria (ⁱ/ˈsɪ.rɪə/; Arabic: سوريا‎ or سورية, Sūriyā or Sūrīyah), officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in Western Asia. De jure Syrian territory borders Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest, but the government's control now extends to approximately 30–40% of the de jure state area and less than 60% of the population.

A country of fertile plains, high mountains, and deserts, Syria is home to diverse ethnic and religious groups, including Syrian Arabs, Greeks, Armenians, Assyrians, Kurds, Circassians,Mandeans and Turks. Religious groups include Sunnis, Christians, Alawites, Druze, Mandeans, Shiites, Salafis, and Yazidis. Sunni Arabs make up the largest population group in Syria.

In English, the name "Syria" was formerly synonymous with the Levant (known in Arabic as al-Sham), while the modern state encompasses the sites of several ancient kingdoms and empires, including the Eblan civilization of the 3rd millennium BC. Its capital Damascus is among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. In the Islamic era, Damascus was the seat of the Umayyad Caliphate and a provincial capital of the Mamluk Sultanate in Egypt.

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Car bomb explosion kills Damascus mufti west of Syria’s capital

Press TV 23 Oct 2020

US-backed SDF militants killed in northern Syria ... US-backed SDF forces set free 100s of Daesh terrorists in Syria’s Hasakah. US-backed and Kurdish-led SDF forces controlling northeast Syria free more than 600 prisoners detained over links to the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group....

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‘Friends, Not Masters’: Is Biden a Frenemy of Islamic World?

GlobalResearch 23 Oct 2020

... green militants of the Free Syria Army (FSA) and a few other inconsequential outfits, which together comprised the elusive “moderate” Syrian opposition that existed only in the mainstream media’s fictional narrative of Syria’s proxy war but was nowhere to be found on the ground....

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SDF says attacks by Turkey and Turkish-backed groups increasing

Kurdistan Media 23 Oct 2020

... by the Turkish army and affiliated groups have recently increased in northeast Syria ... David Eubank, leader of the humanitarian group known as the Free Burma Rangers (FBR), who is in Syria now, told Kurdistan 24 that the situation near Ain al-Issa was quiet after multiple attacks....

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Truth-Tellers Get Killed

Information Clearing House 22 Oct 2020

October 22, 2020 "Information Clearing House" - This week is the sixth anniversary of Serena Shim’s death, a brave journalist who exposed the real nature of the war in Syria as being a covert aggression by foreign powers for regime change ... The young Lebanese-American reporter was working for Press TV in northern Syria....

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NATO Chickens Home to Roost

Information Clearing House 22 Oct 2020

The clearest achievement in that regard was Russia’s military intervention in Syria to aid that allied state towards defeating a veritable proxy army of hardcore terrorists who went by all sorts of myriad organizational names ... France is reaping a bitter harvest from seeds of terror that it and its NATO allies sowed in Syria....

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JOAN MULLER: Contradictions rife as government bans tourists from some countries, but not others

Business Day 22 Oct 2020

Back in January, Americans could still travel hassle-free to 185 destinations around the world ... from 53rd to 52nd position, with SA passport holders still able to access 101 visa-free destinations. Unsurprisingly, Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria sit at the bottom of the passport index....

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Unofficial Saudi boycott costing Turkey billions

Asiatimes 22 Oct 2020

$3 billion lost. While the trigger for the boycott remains unclear, the campaign targets Turkey’s coronavirus-hit economy as it grapples with a currency in free fall. The two countries are at loggerheads over a range of regional issues, from Libya and Syria to Qatar, a key Turkish ally that faces a three-year Saudi-led economic blockade ... – AFP ... .......

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Response to Abraham Accords Suggests Dwindling Role of Jerusalem in Sunni Terrorist Rhetoric

The Washington Institute 21 Oct 2020

... though it had previously published a statement on the announcement of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in December 2017, saying “We in Syria express our support for the Jerusalem cause, as it is the cause for all the Muslims, the free, and the honorable around the world....

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Keeping Down a Diminished Islamic State:

The Washington Institute 20 Oct 2020

Then, IS held Manbij and Raqqa in Syria, and also had free use of the Syrian-Turkish border, from which it (1) launched terrorist attacks such as the January 2016 Istanbul bombing and (2) directed attacks in Europe like the March 2016 Brussels bombings ... What has changed is that IS has lost its large territorial bastions in Iraq, Syria, and Libya....

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Paper: U.S. held secret talks in Syria

Arkansas Online 20 Oct 2020

military presence in Syria, in rare high-level negotiations, according to a newspaper aligned with the Syrian government ... withdrawal from Syria were underway ... In March, President Donald Trump said he was "working very hard with Syria" to free Tice and urged Damascus to work with the U.S ... We've done a lot for Syria," he said....

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US held secret talks with Syria over missing journalist, sanctions, military presence, Syrian newspaper reports

Stars and Stripes 19 Oct 2020

military presence in Syria, in rare high-level negotiations, according to a newspaper aligned with the Syrian government ... withdrawal from Syria were underway ... In March, President Donald Trump said he was "working very hard with Syria" to free Tice and urged Damascus to work with the United States ... We've done a lot for Syria," he said....

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White House official went to Syria seeking Americans’ release

Arab News 19 Oct 2020

The newspaper said US officials hoped a deal with Assad could free Austin Tice, a freelance journalist and former Marine officer who disappeared while reporting in Syria in 2012, and Majd Kamalmaz, a Syrian-American therapist who disappeared after being stopped at a Syrian government checkpoint in 2017....

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Senior U.S. officials self-isolate after meeting Lebanese spymaster who’s positive for Covid

Politico 19 Oct 2020

Coronavirus Senior U.S. officials self-isolate after meeting Lebanese spymaster who’s positive for Covid ... Maj. Gen ... ... in part to boost intelligence-sharing with Washington and work on releasing more hostages held in Iran and Syria. Ibrahim is believed to be involved in efforts to free Austin Tice, an American journalist who may be in Syrian custody ... ....