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Israel braces for Iran attack as Revolutionary Guard storm ship
President Biden is cutting short his weekend and returning to Washington to consult his national security team about events in the Middle East.
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Inside Khan Younis: Gazans sift through what’s left of their lives (dubbed)
Israel is on high alert tonight amid warnings of an imminent attack by Iran in retaliation for last week’s killing of senior Iranian commanders in Damascus.
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US confirms support for Israel amid fears of Iran attack
The US military’s most senior Middle East commander touched down in Tel Aviv today, as Washington underscored its support for Israel in the face of ever-growing threats from Iran.
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Israel strike on Iran military commander increases pressure on US talks
Iran has announced one of its senior Quds Force commanders has been killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus.
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Israel-Gaza: Deadly Syria airstrike heightens Middle-East tensions while fighting continues in Gaza
Five senior members of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard have been killed in an airstrike in the Syrian capital Damascus.
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I came to the UK from Syria with £12 – Imad Al Arnab on fleeing the war and opening his own restaurant
Chef and former refugee Imad Al Arnab joins Krishnan Guru-Murthy to talk about fleeing Syria and his journey from losing everything in the war to rebuilding a life in the UK, in this week’s episode of Ways to Change the World.
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‘They almost killed me’ – Syrian-American prisoner to sue Assad regime
This is the horrific ordeal of a young Syrian American man who was arrested at Damascus airport on his way home to continue his studies, and says he was held for three weeks before being released.
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The Olympian who escaped Syria by swimming the Aegean Sea
The Syrian sisters Yousra and Sara Mardini, professional swimmers back in Damascus, found themselves on a sinking dinghy in the Mediterranean Sea.
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Syria police officer trial shows Assad’s regime is ‘torture state’, says daughter of kidnapped man
We spoke to Wafa Mustafa, whose father Ali was dragged away by armed men from his home in Damascus more than eight years ago.
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German court sentences Syrian ex-colonel to life for crimes against humanity
Anwar Raslan had applied for asylum in Germany as a refugee, but was recognised and arrested.
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Syria: The people putting themselves and the environment at risk to keep fuel supplies flowing
In the countryside around Aleppo, basic necessities are in short supply and as winter continues to bite, diesel for generators is in high demand.
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Does Afghanistan withdrawal mean the end of US nation building?
After imperial Britain and the Soviet Union, Afghanistan has now seen off America, supposedly the world’s mightiest military.
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Denmark offers Syrian refugees money to return home or be put in a deportation centre
Denmark was the first country to sign the UN Refugee Convention in 1951, but it has now become the first European nation to tell Syrian refugees that they must return home. The Scandinavian country has declared Damascus and its surrounding areas safe, stripping nearly 100 Syrian refugees of their residencies and putting hundreds more in…
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‘Why I changed my mind on leaving EU’ – Peter Oborne debates with Melissa Kite on Brexit
The urge to leave and the desire to remain, to paraphrase one of our guests, they are both elements of the same country… sometimes even at war within ourselves.
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Death and Destruction in Yarmouk: Inside Syria’s largest Palestinian refugee camp
“You have turned it into a death Camp” – the United Nations verdict on the Syrian government. For five years Syrian, Russian and Iranian forces besieged and bombarded Yarmouk, the largest Palestinian camp in Syria. The assault was designed to drive out militant Islamic State fighters holding onto what was to become the last…