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Dozens of Druze in northern Israel demonstrate against Islamist violence in Syria

More than a dozen people were killed in the predominantly Druze town near the Syrian capital on Tuesday in clashes with Sunni gunmen.

 Israeli Druze demonstrating against Islamist violence in Syria, April 30, 2025.
 Syrian-born businessman Yahya Kirdi.

Peace between Israel and Syria is possible, Damascus businessman tells 'Post'

 The Bab al-Hawa border crossing between Syria and Turkey, December 8, 2024.

Syrian Shi'ites and other minorities flee to Lebanon, fearing Islamist rule

US President Joe Biden holds a press conference about his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping before the start of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Woodside, California, US, November 15, 2023.

US to work with partners in Syria to manage risk after Assad toppled, Biden says


Germany arrests Syrian national over plans for machete attack on soldiers

The accused obtained two machetes approximately 40 cm (15.75 inches) long.

German special police secures the area as they search for long-sought members Ernst Volker S. and Burkhard G. of Germany's notorious Red Army Faction (RAF) militant group, after decades on the run from armed robbery and attempted murder charges, in Berlin, Germany, March 3, 2024

Alleged Islamic State 'Beatle' pleads guilty to terrorism offenses

He appeared at London's Old Bailey by video link form prison and pleaded guilty to two terrorism fundraising charges and possession of a firearm for terrorist purposes.

AN ISIS fighter uses his phone to  lm a military parade in Syria’s northern Raqqa province in 2014

U.S.-led coalition begins withdrawal from Syria

President Donald Trump announced last month the decision to withdraw 2,000 US troops who have deployed to Syria.

SYRIAN DEMOCRATIC FORCES and US troops are seen during a patrol near Turkish border in Hasakah, Syria, in November.

After ISIS: How they won even though they were defeated

In that sense, ISIS won. It won in the West because it was allowed to percolate up and then quietly go away without any real desire to confront it.

A couple watches the fighting in Syria from Tel Saqi. The Syrian regime and its Russian backers launched numerous artillery and air strikes on ISIS positions 2018

What are 5,000 Chinese fighters doing in Syria?

Beijing is worried about Uighurs, a mostly Muslim people who speak a Turkic language, fighting alongside ISIS in the war-torn Levant.

A rebel fighter takes away a flag that belonged to Islamic State militants in Akhtarin village, after rebel fighters advanced in the area, in northern Aleppo Governorate, Syria, October 7, 2016

Erdogan says Syria's Raqqa will 'turn into a graveyard' for Islamic State

Tensions escalated this week with cross-border clashes between Turkish forces and the YPG near the Syrian border.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan addresses during an attempted coup in Istanbul, Turkey July 16, 2016.

US military says air strike killed Islamic State propaganda chief

Islamic State controls parts of Iraq and Syria and has broadcast its beheadings of journalists and aid workers over the past few years.

ISIS fighter beheading boy, 16, in Syria

Reshape the Middle East today to prevent the ISIS of tomorrow

The solution to the mess has to be based on a division of Syria and Iraq into four new countries, on an ethnic and religious basis, to provide each one of the various groups with a sense of security.

Children play near a bus barricading a street, which serves as protection from snipers loyal to Syria's President Bashar Assad, in Aleppo's rebel-controlled Bustan al-Qasr neighborhood, Syria April 6, 2016.

Syrian Penetration of the Southern European Front: Observations and Implications

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Activist: Doors closed for Iraqi Christians, Yazidis – just like the Jews

Massacres committed by Islamic State against Yazidis mean they “can’t trust their Sunni neighbors again.”

A MASS GRAVE of Yazidi victims of Islamic State is seen near Sinjar, Iraq.

The Gulf Monarchies: Stuck Between Iraq and a Hard Place

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