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Arabist. Journalist. Entrepreneur. With 17 field trips to Syria since 2019, I bring perspectives grounded in firsthand experience and authentic local engagement. @RenaLingua. renanetjes@protonmail.com
A good summary on Ikhbariyah of day 5 of the rebel offensive:
With the regime's flight from Hama, the liberation of Tel Rifaat, Minagh, Kweires, the Christian woman in Sulaymaniyah/Aleppo, the liberation of Kafranbel, the request for the SDF to leave Aleppo...
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Pope Leo XIV’s visit comes at a critical moment for Lebanon:
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A large joint anti-ISIS operation by the US and Syrian armies targeted 15 locations on "all" outskirts of Damascus.
130 Hawn missiles, explosives, and many other weapons were found:
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Almost 54,000 images leaked in 2014 by a Syrian whistleblower known as ‘Caesar’, exposing the scale of human rights abuses in Assad’s detention facilities. In total, the files documented the deaths of 6,786 ppl in detention. We spoke with six families of the victims 🔗 www.newarab.com/analysis/syr...
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Hundreds of Syrian Christians went to Lebanon to meet the Pope:
- Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan... we need calm (peace) in our countries after years of war and suffering.
- I hope the Pope will now visit Syria.
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"..group, which Syria’s ambassador to the UN, Ibrahim Olabi, dismissed as “a fantasy.”
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"This escalation followed a series of Israeli measures, beginning with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the southern buffer zone, and continuing with Defense Minister Israel Katz’s statements about the presence of forces, including Yemen’s Houthi.."
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With Israel demolishing properties and confiscating farmers' land in S Syria —both Arab and Druze—and Damascus failing to defend the local population, it is highly likely that a new anti-Israel resistance movement will emerge, with locals defending their property.
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Blasts hit sanctioned tankers off Turkey's coast, rescues underway | Reuters share.google/VaTb80nAEpr8...
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Merci!
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Heading to Ankara for a Syria Conference..
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NEWS: Trump launches large-scale immigration crackdown following devastating shooting.
The suspect previously worked on a CIA-backed mission in Afghanistan.
Canada calls out the United States ahead of Thanksgiving.
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#Aleppo The churches in Syria are playing a remarkably constructive role, I have to say..
#AleppoConference
Our latest for @zenith.me takes you inside the Druze areas of Suwayda governorate and Jaramana — revealing a community far more diverse than often portrayed.
With Marion Sendker.
Pope Leo XIV begins a six-day visit to Turkey and Lebanon on Thursday, his first foreign trip since his election and one on which he’s expected to emphasize key themes of his fledgling pontificate – among them dialogue and unity.
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Feeling stuck in your writing?
This week’s Respect in Marble post is about something deceptively simple: most writing problems are structure problems.
Feeling stuck isn’t a verdict, it’s a signal. It means you need a skeleton.
Link: open.substack.com/pub/catherin...
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Comey: "I'm grateful the court ended the case against me, which was a prosecution based on malevolence & incompetence... I was inspired by the career people who refused to be part of this travesty. It cost some of them their jobs, but it preserved their integrity, which is beyond price"
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Israel is set to destroy our guesthouse. But Masafer Yatta still welcomes all who resist
Mohammed Hureini’s family has hosted hundreds of activists, journalists, and politicians in At-Tuwani. If this demolition proceeds, half of the village may be next.
www.972mag.com/at-tuwani-gu...
Saudi Al-Hadath.
Security Latakia: ISIS cell planning attacks on Syrian coast arrested
What is Christianity in my mind? Serving each other tea and cake, getting both earnest and embarrassed when talk turns to God, and being pretty good at dealing with death and funerals.
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Syria is the land of warlords.
english.enabbaladi.net/archives/202...
Last night I had a short conversation with an activist in Afrin about a different topic. She ended with, "And ISIS is spreading."
24.11.2025 16:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Last December already, ISIS members were identified by activists in Afrin, but they later disappeared. ISIS is spreading and growing, hiding in various locations over the country. The big question for months has been: what are they planning?
24.11.2025 16:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Last December already, ISIS members were identified by activists in Afrin, but they later disappeared. ISIS is spreading and growing, hiding in various locations over the country. The big question for months has been: what are they planning?
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