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100 Days of Government: Experts Highlight Individual Performance, Weak Governance
Enab Baladi
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July 9, 2025
Muwafaq Al-Khouja | Amir Huquq | Marina Marhej It has been nearly 100 days since the formation of the first Syrian government following the fall of the former regime—a government that inherited a war-torn country and the hopes of Syrians longing...
Syria Sets Entry Fees for Private Vehicles Crossing via Turkey
Enab Baladi
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July 6, 2025
The General Authority for Land and Sea Border Crossings in Syria has set new fees for private vehicles entering the country through all land crossings with Turkey. According to a statement obtained by Enab Baladi on Saturday, July 5, the following...
UK Restores Diplomatic Ties With Syria in First Ministerial Visit Since Assad’s Fall
Media Line
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July 7, 2025
The United Kingdom and Syria officially reestablished diplomatic relations on Saturday during a high-profile visit by British Foreign Secretary David Lammy to Damascus, the first by a UK minister in 14 years. The trip comes eight months after the...
The Hiking Trails Reshaping Lebanese Tourism
New Lines Magazine
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July 7, 2025
Long before Lebanon’s mountains were mapped, myth gave them meaning. In the ancient Mesopotamian epic of Gilgamesh, the king of Uruk journeys to the cedar forests of Lebanon to fell the sacred trees to build his city. In a violent clash with the...
US EMBASSY IN BEIRUT URGES ITS CITIZENS NOT TO TRAVEL TO LEBANON
Ya Libnan
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July 7, 2025
The US embassy in Beirut issued the following travel advisory update for Lebanon Updated to reflect the lifting of ordered departure of family members and non-emergency U.S. government personnel. Do Not Travel to Lebanon due to crime, terrorism,...
Cameras roll again in Syria as sanctions are lifted after a decade
The National News
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For more than a decade, Syria’s television industry operated under the weight of crippling sanctions, political isolation and dwindling resources. What was once a regional powerhouse of drama – especially during the lucrative Ramadan season –...
Mar Aprem Metropolitan, head of Chaldean Syrian Church, passes away at 85
Onmanorama
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July 7, 2025
Mar Aprem Metropolitan, the head of the Chaldean Syrian Church, passed away at the age of 85 on Monday. He was undergoing treatment at the Sun Medical and Research Centre in Thrissur. Mar Augen Kuriakose Metropolitan had issued a medical bulletin...
Emirates Resume Damascus Services From July 16, Reconnecting UAE and Syria After 13 Year Halt
Times of Dubai
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July 7, 2025
July 7, 2025 | Dubai, UAE – After a halt of 13 years, Dubai’s national carrier Emirates announced on Monday, the re-launch of its Damascus Services to the Syrian capital, reinstating the travel routes to Syria from July 16th. The Damascus services...
Tourists return to Syria, but beds are short
Ynet
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July 5, 2025
As Syria prepares for its first real tourism season in over a decade, existing hotels are already filled to capacity. Visitors include not only investors who see economic opportunities in Syria and have arrived to explore business ventures, but...
TSA's shoe removal policy is over. Here's why it started.
USA Today - Virginia
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For years, travelers have been forced to awkwardly remove their shoes in the airport security line, a policy that dates back to a failed, decades-old terrorism plot. The rule just changed with a big announcement from Homeland Security Secretary...
UK resets relations with Syria, pledges support
China Daily Global
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A handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) shows Syria's interim leader Ahmed al-Sharaa (R) welcoming with British Foreign Secretary David Lammy in the Syrian capital Damascus on July 5, 2025. [Photo/Agencies]...
Syrian symbolism
Taipei Times
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July 5, 2025
2025-07-04 FLYBY: The object, appears to be traveling more than 60 kilometers per second, meaning it is not bound by the sun’s orbit, astronomers studying 3I/Atlas said Astronomers on Wednesday confirmed the discovery of an interstellar object...
A Moral and Strategic Imperative: Greece’s Opportunity to Embrace Middle Eastern Christians
To Vima
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July 9, 2025
In the wake of the terrorist attack that claimed 25 lives at the Mar Elias Greek Orthodox Church in Damascus, Greece faces a moment of profound moral and strategic clarity. It must act. The Hellenic Republic should extend residency and a path to...
Minister of Information: The first message of the Visual Identity of the SAR is that there is a new beginning, and a new Syria
SANA
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July 6, 2025
Damascus, SANA – Minister of Information Dr. Hamza Al-Mustafa said on Sunday that the first message aimed of the Visual Identity of the Syrian Arab Republic is that there is a new beginning, and a new Syria that resembles the Syrians people. In an...
UK Restores Formal Diplomatic Ties With Syria After Grooming Sharaa For Power
Zero Hedge
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Via The Cradle Britain reestablished full diplomatic relations with Syria on Sunday as part of the visit of UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy to Damascus to meet the country's new de facto leader, Ahmad al-Sharaa (Jolani). In a video message on X,...
Jordanians Exempt as Syria Implements New Entry Fee Policy
Jordan News
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July 6, 2025
A decision to revise entry and transit visa fees for Arab and foreign nationals entering Syria came into effect Sunday, as part of what the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs described as a new security and economic entry policy.اضافة اعلان Under...
Wildfires Spread in Latakia as Syria Coordinates Regional Response
Media Line
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July 6, 2025
Syria is battling one of its worst wildfire outbreaks in years, with more than 7,000 hectares of forestland in Latakia province scorched since Thursday. Facing relentless heat, strong winds, and the lurking danger of unexploded ordnance, officials...
Israel’s Tourist Comeback Stalls After June War Shock
Media Line
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July 6, 2025
Israel welcomed 610,900 foreign visitors between January and June 2025—a 23.4% jump from the same stretch last year—according to figures released Sunday by the Central Bureau of Statistics. The rebound was powered by strong spring holiday travel,...
Lights, Camera, Rehabilitation: Ex-Nusra Leader Goes to Hollywood—in Damascus
Media Line
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July 6, 2025
In a plot twist worthy of its own feature film, Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa—better known to many by his former name, Abu Mohammad al-Jolani—is taking a star turn as the unlikely patron of the country’s first mega media and film-production...
Turkish-Jordanian intervention to extinguish Syrian coastal wildfires
Enab Baladi
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July 6, 2025
Syria’s Minister of Emergency and Disaster Management, Raed al-Saleh, said on Sunday, July 6, that Jordan has confirmed its readiness to send a specialized ground team in addition to aerial intervention to help extinguish the wildfires spreading...