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☆ Why Israel captured Syria’s tallest mountain just hours after Assad fell
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-14 | by ( Mick Krever | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

But it is Israel’s capture of Syria’s highest peak, the Mount Hermon summit, that may prove among the most lasting prizes – though officials have insisted that its occupation is temporary. “This is the highest place in the region, looking upon Lebanon, upon Syria, Israel,” said Efraim Inbar, director of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security (JISS). An Israeli military spokesperson this week denied that forces were “advancing toward” Damascus. Alain Dejean/Sygma/Getty ImagesIsrael captured the Golan Heights, a strategic plateau in southwestern Syria that abuts Mount Hermon, in the 1967 war and has occupied it since. In an academic paper published in 2011, he wrote of the many advantages presented by Mount Hermon.

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☆ Syria’s new regime brings hope to a million refugees in Europe
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-14 | by ( Rob Picheta | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

But it unsettled much of Syria’s huge diaspora in Europe, particularly those with outstanding asylum claims or who did not gain citizenship in their adopted countries. “They really ruined the happiness of so many Syrians across Europe,” Almashi of the continent’s leaders. Germany has taken in more than a million Syrian refugees, but political debate has quickly turned to whether they will be returned. For now, most Syrians in Europe are intent on celebrating the fall of a regime that had seemed unshakable as recently as a month ago. “I felt like my identity had been rebuilt.”As for Almashi and many Syrians across Europe, there is caution amid Baleh’s excitement.

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DAMASCUS, Syria — Cockroaches crawled out of the walls near a dirty, stained sink in the Syrian prison cell where an ex-prisoner told NBC News that American journalist Austin Tice was once held. Sahar al-Ahmad said he was in the cell across from Tice and last saw him alive in July 2022. Relatives rushed to jails, military installations and even black sites to search for detained loved ones as soon as the regime fell. Ted Turner / NBC NewsAhmad, an activist and citizen journalist, said that he was arrested for filming anti-regime demonstrations and that Tice appeared to be in “somewhat good” condition in 2022. A torn photo of ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad lies on the floor after the prison was hastily evacuated.

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Israel has ordered troops to prepare to remain throughout winter on Mount Hermon — a strategic peak inside a buffer zone that has existed for decades with Syria but which Israeli forces have seized in the wake of the Assad regime's collapse. Israel has said its deployment to the buffer zone was temporary, but concerns have grown over what United Nations chief António Guterres on Thursday called “extensive violations of Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity" as he urged Israeli forces to withdraw from the buffer zone. On Friday, Katz shared a photo on X that he said showed him with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu overlooking the Syrian peak of Mount Hermon with binoculars, saying the site had "returned to Israeli control after 51 years." "An exciting historical moment," he wrote. In his warning, Guterres called for urgent de-escalation "on all fronts, throughout Syria" as he expressed particular concern over hundreds of Israeli strikes on locations across Syria in recent days following the toppling of the Assad regime, which crowds gathered in Damascus to celebrate Friday.

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Antony Blinken speaks to reporters at King Hussein International Airport in Jordan's southern Red Sea coastal city of Aqaba on December 12. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/ReutersIsrael has “been clear” about the reasons for its military actions in Syria following the fall of the Assad regime, the top US diplomat said on Thursday. Israel has sent troops into the “buffer zone” between Israel and Syria and launched hundreds of strikes on Syrian air bases, ports and weapons stockpiles across the country this week. It is “really important… that we all try to make sure that we’re not sparking any additional conflicts,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told reporters before departing Jordan for Turkey. “The stated purpose of those actions from the Israelis is to try to make sure that equipment that’s been abandoned — military equipment that’s been abandoned by the Syrian army — doesn’t fall into the wrong hands, terrorists, extremists, etc.

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☆ Syrians celebrate Asad regime fall in Damascus
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-13 | by ( Ivana Kottasová | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Damascus, Syria CNN —At Umayyad Square in central Damascus, tens of thousands of people had the party of a lifetime on Friday. On Sunday, after 13 years of civil war that fractured the country, the regime came crashing down. Rebel fighters declared Damacus “liberated” in a video statement on state television, sending Syrian President Bashar al-Assad fleeing to Russia. The congregational prayers – seen as the pinnacle of the Islamic week – were the first since the fall of the Assadregime. People dance and sing at the Umayyad Square, celebrating their newly found freedoms.

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☆ Russia looks to be packing up its helicopters and air defenses at its base in Syria, new satellite images show
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-13 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

In new satellite imagery, Russia's military appears to be packing up equipment at a key airbase in Syria. Russia appears to be packing up military equipment at one of its bases in Syria, new satellite images show. Satellite image ©2024 Maxar TechnologiesA second An-124 heavy transport aircraft preparing to load equipment at TKKTT on December 13. Satellite image ©2024 Maxar TechnologiesElements of an S-400 unit preparing to depart TKKTTK on December 13. Advertisement"What we're seeing is a consolidation of assets, including some Russian forces leaving Syria," Sabrina Singh, the deputy Pentagon spokesperson, told reporters Wednesday.

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☆ Russia is sending 4 ships to its bases in Syria to evacuate weapons, Ukraine intelligence says
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-13 | by ( Thibault Spirlet | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Russia is dispatching four ships to its bases in Syria, per Ukraine's main intelligence directorate. They will evacuate weapons and military equipment from its key base in Tartus, they said. Russia is trying to secure a deal with Syria's new leadership to keep the bases, per reports. Russia is sending four ships to its bases in Syria to evacuate weapons and military equipment, according to Ukraine's main intelligence directorate (GUR). They also said that it would probably take weeks for the Russian ships to get to Tartus.

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☆ Syria’s tortured prisoners: The dead, the missing and the reunited
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-13 | by ( Salma Abdelaziz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

Yet many more of the missing have yet to be found, and hopes are fading with each passing hour. In Europe, he rose to prominence after detailing the torture he endured in a regime prison in a 2017 documentary. “Justice for me and my friends that were killed.”And he kept fighting for the cause he loved most – a free Syria. They wanted to be a security state that killed people if they even breathed against the regime.”Al-Hamada’s story is emblematic of Syria’s suffering. After being held incommunicado for months and possibly tortured, Tal was accused of spying for America, an outlandish charge for a teenage blogger.

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☆ Can Syria’s Islamist rebels govern the country? Their rule in Idlib offers clues
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-13 | by ( Mostafa Salem | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

How the rebels governed Idlib, in northwest Syria, offers insight into how they might rule the country. He has said that his officials gained valuable experience while governing Idlib but acknowledged that that may not be enough. But he cautioned that the rebels aren’t prepared to rule the rest of the country. Idlib was “very safe” under the SSG, he said, adding that the rebels placed no restrictions on travel and movement inside the HTS-controlled province. Another issue was the arrest and alleged torture of dissidents that caused significant protests against Jolani in Idlib last year.

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"We're very blessed that he is safe, that he is good, that he is protected," Pixie Rogers said of her brother, Travis Timmerman. But Timmerman's family said that he, too, had been missing, although they had no clue he was in Syria. "I'm not sure what his thinking was in that," Rogers said of her brother entering a country in conflict. Only in recent weeks, Rogers said, after Missouri law enforcement was able to get in contact with U.S. Embassy officials in Hungary did the family learn Timmerman was in Lebanon. The Missouri State Highway Patrol said in a public awareness bulletin that Timmerman had gone missing from Budapest on May 28.

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Ted Turner / NBC NewsWhen NBC News gained access to the squat, modernist palace perched in the mountains above the capital Damascus on Wednesday, it was relatively calm, despite the appearance of having been robbed. Ted Turner / NBC NewsIt also appeared that no expense had been spared at one of Assad's guest palaces nearby. Ted Turner / NBC NewsElsewhere, there was an expansive library large enough to warrant a rolling ladder. Ted Turner / NBC NewsNow he is gone the reality of what happened under his rule is being exposed. As the Assad's lived a life of luxury, their regime locked up, tortured and killed thousands of its citizens.

Persons: Bashar Al, Assad, Asma, Ted Turner, Michael Moore’s, Sue Black’s ‘, Richard Engel, David Hodari Organizations: NBC, NBC News, Fighters Locations: DAMASCUS, Syria, Russia, Damascus, Hayat Tahrir, Uruguay, Croatia, Sudan, London

“Wanted” posters and harassment toward health insurance workers follow the UnitedHealthcare CEO’s killing. And new dietary guidelines for Americans suggest more plant-based proteins. On social media, images of “wanted” posters put up in Manhattan featured photos of the CEOs of at least two health insurance companies. New dietary guidelines proposedA report released this week containing updated U.S. dietary guidelines recommends that people eat more beans, peas and lentils and decrease their consumption of processed and red meat, sugary drinks, sodium and processed foods. The updated dietary guidelines, recommended by an advisory committee to the Agriculture Department, are expected to go into effect next year and remain in effect until 2030.

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DAMASCUS, Syria — A Missouri man found in Syria told NBC News on Thursday he spent months in a Syrian prison after after crossing into the country on a "pilgrimage" to Damascus. It was not widely known that the man, who identified himself as Travis Timmerman and went missing in Hungary in May, was in Syria. "I was on a pilgrimage to Damascus," he told NBC News in a building on the outskirts of the capital. Travis Timmerman speaking to NBC News outside the Syrian capital Damascus on Thursday. A U.S. official told NBC News that Washington was "aware of reports of an American found outside of Damascus and seeking to provide support.

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Arnaot said Syria's interim government had tried to find Tice to reunite him with his family, but has so far had no luck locating the journalist, now 43. "We tried as much as possible to find information about Austin and return him to his mother, but we have not reached any result," he said. Instead, the State Department said Tice was believed to be in the custody of the Syrian government — a charge vehemently denied by the regime of ousted President Bashar al-Assad. With Assad overthrown by rebel forces, Tice's family has expressed renewed hope that they'll be reunited with their son. Syria’s new rebel coalition is led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, a group that emerged from an Al Qaeda affiliate.

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A torn portrait of Bashir al-Assad, which appears to have been arranged, is seen inside the Presidential Palace in Damascus, Syria, on December 10. Those were the most vivid memories from my meeting with Bashar al-Assad. Toppled Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, a fellow secular Baathist like Assad, had been executed just six months earlier. Assad met us without a large entourage, folding his long body into a chair at the head of the room. Read more about Ivan Watson’s meeting with the dictator.

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☆ Battered corpses show the horrors of life and death under Syria’s Assad
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-12 | by ( Clarissa Ward | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Dr. Ahmed Abdullah, an employee at the morgue, condemns the people who left these marks, accusing the Assad regime. I hope he burns, like he burned my heart.”Battered bodies inside the morgue of Mujtahid Hospital. A defector who once worked as a photographer in the Syrian military police smuggled out almost 27,000 images in 2014, taken at a military hospital where he said “killed detainees” were brought. Troves and troves of prisoner files remain in the so-called “Palestine Branch” of military intelligence in southeastern Damascus. The detainees themselves left their own clues, scratched into the walls of underground cells that are perhaps better described as dungeons.

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☆ Analysis: Assad exhibited little of the tackiness of Iraq’s Saddam. But his rule was just as brutal
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-12 | by ( Ivan Watson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Toppled Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, a fellow secular Baathist like Assad, had been executed just six months earlier. But Syria’s then leader, who had succeeded his father Hafez seven years before, represented a stable contrast to the chaos engulfing neighboring Iraq. Assad met us without a large entourage, folding his long body into a chair at the head of the room. An armed man walks through the Presidential Palace in Damascus, Syria, on December 10, 2024. People inspect documents they found in the infamous Saydnaya military prison, just north of Damascus, Syria, on December 9, 2024.

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☆ Russia could lose key military bases in post-Assad Syria. Here are 3 potential scenarios for its presence.
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-12 | by ( ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Russia faces the prospect of losing key bases in Syria but still has moves left. Still, it's far from clear that the future leadership in Damascus is willing to tolerate a long-term Russian military presence. AdvertisementFor now, some Russian warships are anchored outside the Tartus base as a precaution, and there are other Russian military movements in Syria. The treaty even granted the Russian military legal immunity for its personnel in the country, meaning they would not be held accountable for killing Syrians. Along with Hmeimim, it serves as a hub for supporting Russian military and mercenary deployments in Africa.

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CNN —A man thought to be a missing US citizen has been found in Damascus, Syria, telling reporters he had recently been freed from jail. The man is believed to be Missouri resident Travis Timmerman, 29, and he was found by residents wandering barefoot in a neighborhood just south of Damascus. In video posted Thursday, the man says only: “My name is Travis,” and adds that he is from the United States. His time being held in the Syrian prison “wasn’t too bad,” he said, according to the outlet. An alert that Timmerman had gone missing was posted by Hungarian police in August, though a Facebook post written by a family friend said that he had been missing since June.

Persons: Travis Timmerman, Bashar al, Assad, Travis, ”, Timmerman, wasn’t, Timmerman’s Organizations: CNN, CBS News, AK, Al, Hungarian, Highway Patrol, ” CNN Locations: Damascus, Syria, Missouri, United States, Lebanon, Jordan, Arabiya, Budapest, American

☆ At Syria’s border with Lebanon, refugees return home while others flee fearing the worst
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-12 | by ( Ivana Kottasová | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Masnaa, Lebanon’s border with Syria CNN —Nadia’s eyes were full of tears as she crossed the border from Syria to Lebanon. People cross from Syria into Lebanon at the Masnaa border crossing on Wednesday, December 11. My brother is there, I have not seen him in 11 years,” Mohammed told CNN. And there are so many children,” Fatima, a young woman trying to get into Lebanon, told CNN. As Nadia and Saiman continued their journey to Beirut, Mohammed, his wife and their four sons headed the other way.

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With the balance of power in northern Syria swinging toward the rebels who toppled the Assad regime, U.S.-backed Kurdish forces and their ability to contain ISIS may now be under threat. Suspected ISIS fighters in a prison cell in northeastern Syria in 2019. “One camp recognizes the historic fight with the Kurds against ISIS … and of course the other camp — where Trump probably lands — is to try and move out of Syria,” he said. Syrian Kurds fleeing areas north of Aleppo walk to the western outskirts of Raqa, on Dec. 3. Delil Souleiman / AFP via Getty ImagesIf a second Trump administration were to pull out of Syria, it would leave Kurdish forces without a major international ally.

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When Syria’s new interim prime minister, Mohammad al-Bashir, chaired a Cabinet meeting in Damascus on Tuesday, hanging behind him was the flag of the country’s suddenly victorious opposition. That path will largely depend on Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the rebel organization that led the charge into Damascus and is now stewarding Syria’s political overhaul. Its leader, Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, said a decade ago that there would be no room for religious minorities in the Islamist Syria of which he dreamed about. The leader of Syria's Islamist HTS group, Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus on Sunday. Aref Tammawi / AFP - Getty ImagesSome observers, such as Gerges, see the interim prime minister as little more than an Jolani figurehead.

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☆ Inside Syria's Saydnaya prison and GOP considers how to push Trump agenda: Morning Rundown
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-11 | by ( Elizabeth Robinson | Elizabeth Robinson Is A Newsletter Editor For Nbc News | Based In Los Angeles. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +10 min

One of Syria’s most notorious jails contains evidence of the Assad regime’s brutal crackdown on dissent. One woman NBC News spoke to had come in search of her son who had been missing for a decade. While Syrians grapple with the end of the regime, the country’s neighbor Israel moved into its territory in a new offensive. Read All About ItThe Bureau of Labor Statistics today will release the consumer price index for November, with analysts expecting 0.3% growth month over month. for November, with analysts expecting 0.3% growth month over month.

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Omar Haj Kadour/AFP/Getty ImagesDesperate Syrians are turning to social media for help as they search for their missing loved ones believed to have been held by the Assad regime in secret prisons synonymous with torture and murder. A poster on another page searched for a doctor, who they said had not been seen since her 2013 arrest. At least 200,000 Syrians are missing, most of whom were kidnapped or detained by the Assad regime or its affiliates, according to the Syrian Civil Defense, known as the White Helmets. The group has urged Moscow to pressure Assad to reveal the locations of secret prisons. “I was holding on to the hope he would be released, and our family would be reunited.”Meanwhile, humanitarian organizations have urged Syrians not to exhume their dead.

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