Foinikas
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Did you hear about Sarkozy? The allegations are he received money from Gaddafi to win the elections. If that's true,imagine: He paid them and they turned against him 4-5 years later.
Syrian Civil War and The future of Syria after liberation
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Did you hear about Sarkozy? The allegations are he received money from Gaddafi to win the elections. If that's true,imagine: He paid them and they turned against him 4-5 years later.
...We are invited to sit and offered water and coffee, as two gentlemen collect our passports and disappear to process our entry, and Rasha Ghannam from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and her elegantly suited colleague from the protocol department tell us that we are most welcome in Syria.
It is, as much of the coming 48 hours will prove to be, a deeply surreal experience to be an Israeli, accompanying a very obviously Jewish group, warmly greeted on arrival in the neighboring enemy state of Syria -
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It is, as much of the coming 48 hours will prove to be, a deeply surreal experience to be an Israeli, accompanying a very obviously Jewish group, warmly greeted on arrival in the neighboring enemy state of Syria -
48 surreal hours in Damascus — an Israeli reporter’s travelogue from an enemy capital
I had no idea what to expect from a visit to Syria, accompanying a US Jewish group to holy sites and meetings with Sharaa government officials. I found a nation poised between healing and fresh chaos, reaching out to its former Jews, and aware that these are fateful moments for its destiny
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Exclusive: Israel-Syria talks hit snag over humanitarian corridor, sources say
By Maya GebeilySeptember 26, 202510:19 AM EDTUpdated 1 hour ago
People stand next to a destroyed tank turret, following deadly clashes between Druze fighters, Sunni Bedouin tribes and government forces, in Syria's predominantly Druze city of Sweida, Syria July 25, 2025. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab
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- Israel reintroduces demand already voted down by Syria
- U.S. envoy says aim is now 'de-escalation' pact
- Syrian official says no talks since last week
Syria and Israel had come close in recent weeks to agreeing the broad outlines of a pact after months of U.S.-brokered talks in Baku, Paris and London that accelerated in the lead-up to the United Nations General Assembly in New York this week.
The pact was intended to create a demilitarized zone that would include the province of Sweida, where sectarian violence in July killed hundreds of people from the Druze, an offshoot of Islam.
ISRAEL SAYS IT WILL PROTECT SYRIA'S DRUZE
Israel, which has a 120,000-strong Druze minority whose men serve in the Israeli military, has said it will protect the sect and carried out military strikes in Syria under the banner of defending it.In earlier talks in Paris, Israel asked to open a land corridor to Sweida for aid, but Syria rejected the request as a breach of its sovereignty.
Israel reintroduced the demand at a late stage in the talks, according to two Israeli officials, a Syrian source and a source in Washington briefed on the talks.
The Syrian source and the source in Washington said the renewed Israeli demand had derailed plans to announce a deal this week. The new sticking point has not been previously reported.
The State Department, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Syria's foreign ministry did not respond to questions on the contours of the deal or the sticking points.
NO TALKS SINCE LAST WEEK
U.S. envoy Tom Barrack, who has been brokering the talks between Syria and Israel, said on Tuesday the longtime foes were close to striking a "de-escalation agreement" in which Israel would stop its attacks and Syria would agree not to move any machinery or heavy equipment near the border with Israel.He said it would serve as the first step towards the security deal that the two countries have been negotiating. One diplomat familiar with the matter said it appeared that the U.S. was "scaling down from a security deal to a de-escalation deal."
Speaking shortly before Barrack at an event in New York, Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, a former al Qaeda leader who led rebel forces that seized Damascus last year, expressed concern that Israel may be stalling the talks.
"We are scared of Israel. We are worried about Israel. It's not the other way around," he said.
A Syrian official told Reuters that conversations before the U.N. General Assembly began were "positive," but there had been no further conversations with Israeli officials this week.
Addressing the U.N. General Assembly on Friday, Netanyahu said he believed an agreement could be reached with Syria that would respect its sovereignty and protect both Israel and the security of minorities in the region.
His office said on Wednesday that concluding ongoing negotiations was "contingent on ensuring the interests of Israel, which include, inter alia, the demilitarization of south-western Syria and preserving the safety and security of the Druze in Syria."
Syria and Israel have been foes since Israel's founding in 1948. A disengagement agreement in 1974 created a narrow demilitarized zone monitored by the United Nations.
But since rebels toppled Syria's then-leader Bashar al-Assad last December 8, Israel has carried out unprecedented strikes on Syria's military assets across the country and sent troops into the country's south.
Israel has expressed open hostility towards Sharaa, citing his former links to al Qaeda, and has lobbied the United States to keep Syria weak and decentralized.
In months of talks, Syria had been advocating for a return to the 1974 disengagement agreement. In mid-September, Sharaa described the deal to journalists as a "necessity." He said then that Israel would need to respect Syria's airspace and territorial unity but raised the possibility of Israeli breaches.
"We could reach a deal at any moment, but then another problem arises which is: will Israel commit to and implement it? We will see this in the next phase," he said.
Reporting by Maya Gebeily; Additional reporting by Maayan Lubell and Alexander Cornwell in Jerusalem, Suleiman al-Khalidi in Amman, Editing by Timothy Heritage
Kyussis
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Osama, Saddam and Jewlani all worked for the west!
battalion25
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battalion25
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relearn english.... Turkey is the classical byzentine ´´Rum´´ mentioned in the Quran and hadith
battalion25
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Sharaa finally meet Zelensky
battalion25
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Syria issues an arrest warrant for Bashar Al-Assad for the firs titme
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Syrian judge issues arrest warrant for Assad over November 2011 incidents in Daraa
Syrian judge issues arrest warrant for Assad over November 2011 incidents in Daraa
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hyperman
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Hezbollah Supporter referenced the quran in mockery(Surah Al-Anbiya وَمَآ أَرْسَلْنَـٰكَ إِلَّا رَحْمَةًۭ لِّلْعَـٰلَمِينَ) in 2024, mocking the barrel bombs being dropped on Syrian cities, only to later be the victim of bombs being dropped on him. Subhanallah, their own mockery comes back to haunt them.
Kyussis
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Kyussis
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Hesbollah was fighting Israeli proxies who would receive free medical treatment in Israel.
hyperman
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In Idlib? lol I don't think so.
picking out random historical elements, I can do that too, like the shia militias that were precursors to Hezbollah in Southern Lebanon attacking the PLO who was fighting Israel during the Lebanese Civil war.
Even Today, we see former Hezbollah associates like Hijri working for Israel.
Kyussis
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In Idlib they were supplied and supported by Turkey yet they were serving the same Israeli interest. A lot of Salafist Jihadis were sent to Idlib from across Syria when ever they agreed to give up fighting on the infamous "Green bus" deals.
battalion25
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Strange SDF has some African mercenaries
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