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The judge who sentenced Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia last week was himself sentenced to death in absentia by the same regime years earlier. Irony in its purest form. Judge Fakhr al-Din al-Aryan defected from the Ministry of Justice in 2013 joining the judicial bodies of the opposition. His reinstatement as judge after Assad was toppled and fled the country for Russia in...
Russia says it shot down more than 800 Ukrainian drones overnight in what appears to be among Ukraine’s largest aerial attacks on Russia, with authorities reporting at least six people killed. Ukraine has increasingly fired barrages of drones at targets deep inside Russia, including warehouses and industrial plants as well as refineries. Russia’s state-run TASS News said it was the largest Ukra...
Qusra, West Bank — Loui Ridi began building a home in his native town of Qusra, in the occupied West Bank, for his two daughters. The girls grew up in Ohio, but family trips made them fall in love with their father’s Palestinian roots. “Can we have a home where grandmother lives, where you were born and raised?” his daughters had asked him, Ridi told CNN. That dream is now on hold as a group of...
The Israeli military said on Sunday it killed a senior Hezbollah commander, a day after it launched deadly strikes in southern Lebanon. Abu Hassan Alaa “took part in advancing numerous terror attacks against IDF soldiers… including the launch of explosive drones toward IDF soldiers in southern Lebanon,” the Israeli military said. A wave of Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon on Saturday killed ...
One of the Trump administration’s biggest problems in extracting itself from the Iran war is the list of very absolutist goals that President Donald Trump and his team laid out. The goals have included complete Iranian surrender, regime change, Iran never getting a nuclear weapon and ending Tehran’s support for its Middle East proxy groups like Hezbollah. As the war — now in its sixth month — h...
