News - SYR
4 articles tagged SYR, newest first
2026-09-01
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│ Fresh fighting in Syria's Suwayda leaves │
│ one dead │
│ large - Al-Monitor - unknown/unknown [SYR] │
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│ Fighting broke out at Mazraa in Suwayda │
│ province on Sept 1, with the Druze-led │
│ National Guard under al-Hijri continuing to │
│ oppose the Damascus government and │
│ electricity infrastructure damaged. │
│ Casualty counts are disputed between SOHR │
│ and the state wire and are carried as │
│ competing claims. This is what holds │
│ Syria's conflict improvement to a single │
│ step. │
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│ https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/0 │
│ 9/fresh-fighting-syrias-suwayda-leaves-one- │
│ dead-what-know │
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2026-08-25
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│ Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces │
│ dissolve and integrate into Syrian military │
│ feature - Associated Press - │
│ wire/independent [SYR] │
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│ The SDF formally dissolved and integrated │
│ into the Syrian military, announced by │
│ commander Mazloum Abdi at the presidential │
│ palace in Damascus on Aug 25. Reuters, AP │
│ and the FT all filed original reporting. │
│ This is the best-corroborated institutional │
│ item in the region this window and removes │
│ the largest remaining non-state armed │
│ formation from the map. │
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│ https://apnews.com/article/syrian-democrati │
│ c-forces-dissolution-mazloum-abdi-1b7d210c9 │
│ 6d2c608007b0411db25f453 │
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2026-07-26
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│ Syria seeking security deal with Israel, │
│ al-Sharaa says, as Guterres visits │
│ large - Reuters - wire/independent │
│ [SYR,ISR] │
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│ UN Secretary-General Guterres visited Syria │
│ July 26, the first UNSG visit since 2009, │
│ as President al-Sharaa said Syria is │
│ negotiating a security agreement with │
│ Israel with multi-country participation │
│ while maintaining its Golan claim; the US │
│ State-Sponsor-of-Terrorism removal review │
│ continues. The realized engagement (not the │
│ stated intent) eased Syria alliance 0 to 1. │
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│ https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/ │
│ 2026-07-26/ │
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2026-07-08
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│ US moves to delist Syria as a 'state │
│ sponsor of terrorism' │
│ feature - Al Jazeera - tilt/tilt [SYR,USA] │
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│ On July 8 the US announced it will remove │
│ Syria's state-sponsor-of-terrorism │
│ designation (effective in 45 days absent a │
│ congressional block), a major │
│ sanctions/investment opening for the │
│ al-Sharaa government. Syria │
│ sanctions_capital_controls near -4 to -2. │
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│ https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/8/us- │
│ moves-to-delist-syria-as-a-state-sponsor-of │
│ -terrorism │
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