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Jazeera Airways marks historic milestone with first flights to Syria
Arab Times
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July 2, 2025
KUWAIT CITY, July 2: Jazeera Airways, Kuwait’s leading low-cost carrier, today marked a historic milestone with the resumption of its direct flights between Kuwait and Damascus, restoring air connectivity between the two nations for the first time...
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...
Tomorrowland fire shock: Main stage engulfed in flames days before start of massive festival - what we know
The Economic Times
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July 16, 2025
A huge fire has torn through the main stage at Tomorrowland in Boom, Belgium, just days before a large-scale annual electronic dance music festival was set to begin, as per a report. Fire Breaks Out During Tomorrowland Festival SetupThe fire broke...
Ike Anand Named CEO Of Fundraising Arm Of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
India West
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July 16, 2025
India-West Staff Reporter MEMPHIS, TN –The Board of Directors of the American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities, the fundraising and awareness organization for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, has appointed Ike Anand as its new president...
UAE Travel: Air Arabia To Resume Flights To Damascus From July 10
MENAFN
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July 2, 2025
(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) Air Arabia announced on Monday that it will resume direct flights between Sharjah and Damascus on July 10, ending a long suspension. The Sharjah-based carrier suspended its route to the city in 2012 after the outbreak of...
Sharjah Airport Welcomes 9.11 Million Passengers In First Half Of 2025
MENAFN
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July 16, 2025
(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) Sharjah Airport on Wednesday said it received 9.11 million passengers during the first half of 2025 compared to 8.313 million during the same period last year, an increase of 10 per cent. Ali Salim Al Midfa, chairman of...
U.S. Updates Travel Warning for Israel, West Bank, and Gaza
Travel Market Report - New York
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The U.S. State Department this week issued a new travel advisory for Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza, as conflicts in the area continue to escalate over the past few weeks. The new update is not advising Americans to avoid travel to the region...
Trust but Verify: Syria’s New President Courts Peace After Sanctions Lifted
Media Line
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July 2, 2025
US and Israel weigh the risks of engaging with Syria’s former jihadist leader Last month, my fellow human rights activist the Rev. Johnnie Moore and I met across from UN headquarters in New York with Syria’s Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani. He...
Air Arabia resumes flights to Damascus starting July 10
Travel & Tourism News Middle East
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Travel, Tourism & Hospitality July 2025 142 Air Arabia, the Middle East and North Africa’s first and largest low-cost carrier (LCC) operator, has announced the resumption of direct flights between Sharjah and Damascus, starting July 10, 2025. Air...
Why the long silence over Iran’s menace to Britain?
The Conservative Woman
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July 17, 2025
IRAN HAS reached its ‘greatest level of threat’ to Britain, comparable to the threat posed by Russia, the Home Office’s Homeland Security Group testified to Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee last year. The committee revealed this...
What will Pope Leo's 'vacation' be like?
Rome Reports
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July 2, 2025
July is the month in which most popes reduce their schedule. Many official, public, and private events are canceled. For example, general audiences at the Vatican are suspended for July. In the case of Pope Leo XIV, he has also canceled the...
A Demon, Peruvian Time Travel and the “Czechoslovak Tom Jones”: Eight Offbeat Films in Karlovy Vary
The Hollywood Reporter - California
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July 2, 2025
The 59th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF), which kicks off in the Czech spa town on Friday, is once again offering up a mix of world premieres and hidden gems to discover, as well as highlights from the festival...
A media production city is being established in Syria at a cost of $1.5 billion
Zaman Al Wsl
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June 30, 2025
Damascus witnessed the signing of a memorandum of understanding on Monday between the Syrian Ministry of Information and Al-Maha International Company to launch the "Damascus Gate" project, the country's first integrated city for media, film, and...
After 46 years… Syria feels free of the burden of US sanctions
SANA
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July 1, 2025
Damascus, SANA- US President Donald Trump signed yesterday an executive order to terminate the national emergency declared by Washington against Damascus in 2004 and has been renewed annually since then, which led to comprehensive sanctions...
American tourist vanishes in tropical paradise after walking from vacation rental
Fox News
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Bryan Hagerich, who was detained in Turks and Caicos in 2024, joins ‘America Reports’ to discuss the State Department’s warning against Americans traveling there. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A man from Monroe, New York, who was...
Travel, Security Alerts Issued for Louisiana, Texas Over Conflict
Talk Radio 960AM - Louisiana
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June 24, 2025
Highlights State Department issues worldwide travel caution following US airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities Department of Homeland Security warns of heightened domestic terrorism threat through September 22, 2025 Louisiana and Texas...
48 Hours of Progress: Syria signs strategic agreements to boost recovery and investment
SANA
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July 1, 2025
Damascus, SANA-Syria’s post-liberation recovery is accelerating, racing to overcome years of systematic destruction under the defunct regime. Within the past 48 hours, three strategic agreements were signed in the fields of media, energy, and...
Travel chaos starts to ease as Gulf states reopen airspace
The Business Times Singapore
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June 24, 2025
[DUBAI] Air-travel disruptions started to ease in the Middle East after a ceasefire deal was reached between Israel and Iran and several Persian Gulf states reopened their airspace. National carriers in the Gulf resumed flights during the night,...
Special investigationSyria's Alawite women and girls disappear in abductions
The National News
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It was a March afternoon near the end of Ramadan when Mina and her sister left their home to buy groceries for iftar from a nearby shop on the Syrian coast. They never made it to the store. What should have been a short walk turned into weeks of...
UN commission says Syria must end violence against Alawites
The National News
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The head of a UN investigative commission on Friday called commitments made by the new authorities in Syria to protect the rights of minorities “encouraging” but said attacks have continued on members of the Alawite sect in the months since a...