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Tourism Boost: Syria partners with “All Season” to invest Junada Resort in Tartous
SANA
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June 29, 2025
Tartous, SANA-Last week, the Syrian Ministry of Tourism signed an investment agreement with the company “All Season” for the development and operation of Junada Tourist Resort in Tartous. The resort includes 250 hotel rooms and apartments, a...
U.S. officials reduce travel warning for Israel, the West Bank, but dangers remain
MLive - Michigan
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July 3, 2025
The State Department has reduced its travel advisory for Israel and the West Bank, but says visitors could be in danger if they decide to visit. On Tuesday, the agency announced a Level 3 “Reconsider travel” advisory for those planning to travel...
Sheikh Mohammed funds life-saving treatment for Syrian girl
The National News
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Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, Vice President and Ruler of Dubai, is to cover Dh7 million ($1.9 million) in medical treatment for a young girl with spinal muscular atrophy. The announcement came after Yaqeen Kankar’s uncle posted a video on social...
Nasa discovers interstellar comet travelling through solar system
The National News
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A comet is currently hurtling its way through our solar system despite it originating elsewhere, US space agency Nasa has revealed. The interstellar comet, which has been named 3I/Atlas, is about 670 million kilometres from Earth. "The comet poses...
Medical Tourism in Jordan Rises by 16.5% in First Five Months of 2025
Jordan News
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July 3, 2025
New data from the Private Hospitals Association reveals a 16.5% increase in the number of visitors coming to Jordan for medical treatment during the first five months of 2025.اضافة اعلان According to the association's figures, 92,776 medical...
Kuwait’s Jazeera Airways Relaunches Direct Flights to Syria
MENAFN
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July 3, 2025
(MENAFN) Kuwait’s Jazeera Airways has relaunched direct flights to Syria following a 13-year pause, Syrian media reported on Thursday. As detailed by media, Syria's state news agency, the first flight from the Kuwaiti carrier touched down at...
The Alawite women taken as sex slaves in Syria
The Spectator
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July 2, 2025
Syria’s Alawite communities are in the grip of a fear that their women and girls could be kidnapped and held as sabaya, or sex slaves. After the Assad dictatorship fell, amid revenge attacks by militias loyal to the country’s new rulers, there...
Kuwait’s Jazeera airways resume flights to Syria in over than decade
MENAFN
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July 3, 2025
(MENAFN) Kuwait’s Jazeera Airways has recommenced direct flights to Syria following a 13-year suspension, according to reports from Syrian media on Thursday. The first flight operated by the airline landed at Damascus International Airport on...
Jazeera Airways Restarts Direct Flights to Syria
MENAFN
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July 3, 2025
(MENAFN) After more than a decade-long break, Kuwait’s Jazeera Airways has restarted its non-stop service to Syria, as reported by Syrian outlets on Thursday. As per an official Syrian news outlet, the inaugural flight operated by the Kuwaiti...
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New York Mag
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July 3, 2025
Lost luggage from around the country arrives by truck at Unclaimed Baggage in Scottsboro, Alabama. Photo: Charity Rachelle for New York Magazine This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up...
The global fallout of Trump’s travel bans
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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July 3, 2025
President Donald Trump’s sweeping orders banning citizens of 12 countries, international students, and his threats to ban Nigeria and 35 other countries from travelling to the United States—whether anchored under the guise of national security,...
UAE airfares rise by up to 20 per cent as travel hits summer peak
The National News
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The beginning of school summer holidays brings with it an annual period of busy air travel. Last week, Emirates reported an expected 30,000 daily passenger count between June 25 and 30, and Dubai International Airport announced that about 3.4...
Jazeera Airways resumes flights to Syria
Travel & Tourism News Middle East
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Travel, Tourism & Hospitality July 2025 192 Kuwait's Jazeera Airways has resumed direct flights between Kuwait and Damascus, marking a milestone for the first time in over 13 years. Kuwait's Jazeera Airways has resumed direct flights between...
Flydubai To Resume Daily Damascus Flights As Airspace Reopens
MENAFN
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July 2, 2025
(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) Dubai carrier flydubai will resume daily flights to Damascus, Syria from Thursday, June 26 "This move comes as more airspace in the region reopens, and restrictions are lifted,” a spokesperson for flydubai confirmed to...
Syrian Airlines Coordinates Alternative Flights for Those Affected by the Air Closure
SANA
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June 28, 2025
Damascus, SANA – Syrian Airlines called on all passengers whose flights were canceled during the air closure period, and who have not yet been assigned to alternative flights, to contact it. Syrian Airlines explained on its Telegram channel that...
Netanyahu leaves Washington without breakthrough on Gaza deal
KCCI 8 - Iowa
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July 11, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s trip to Washington this week netted President Donald Trump another nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize he covets, but the ceasefire the U.S. leader sought for the war in Gaza didn't emerge.Despite Trump...
World News | As Trump Seeks to Be Peacemaker, Netanyahu Leaves Washington Without Breakthrough on Gaza Deal
Latestly
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July 11, 2025
Washington, Jul 11 (AP) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's trip to Washington this week netted President Donald Trump another nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize he covets, but the ceasefire the US leader sought for the war in Gaza...
Syria’s Kurds After Assad
Jacobin
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More than six months since the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, the fate of Syria’s Kurdish population remains uncertain. While new president Ahmed al-Sharaa declared a new interim constitution in March, the great unmentioned question was the...
Syria reports Casualties from explosive remnants of war
Prensa Latina - Cuba
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June 28, 2025
Local news channels, quoted by the Syria TV channel, reported that Antar Hamid al-Asaad, an 8-year-old boy, was killed by a hand grenade explosion in the village of Al-Shuhail, east of Deir ez-Zor. They added that a man died and his nephew, a...
2,500 citizens with Turkish citizenship returned to Syria during the past 24 hours
SANA
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July 2, 2025
Damascus, SANA – Director of Relations at the General Authority for Land and Sea Ports, Mazen Alloush confirmed that the number of Syrian citizens holding Turkish citizenship who returned to Syria through various border crossings over the past 24...