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Lasting peace in Syria depends on the country building a strong judicial system giving justice to the victims of all crimes committed during the Assad era, a prominent Syrian human rights lawyer told AFP.

“We believe that the Syrians who paid the heavy cost to reach this moment will not accept changing one dictatorship into another,” Mazen Darwish said in an interview.

Darwish, who was in Stockholm with his wife Yara Bader to receive an award for their work running the Syrian Center for Media…

The Sudanese government yesterday extended the opening of the Adre border crossing with Chad for an additional three months to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid to those affected by the war in Darfur, Anadolu reported.

A statement by the Foreign Ministry said “the Sudanese government has decided to extend the opening of the Adre crossing for the delivery of humanitarian aid and assistance to those affected by the war in the country for an additional…

The UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said yesterday the perimeter of one of its peacekeeping positions in southern Lebanon was hit by “direct fire” from the Israeli occupation army on Tuesday, Anadolu reported.

This marked the first time a UNIFIL position was directly hit since the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire began on 27 November 2024.

In a statement, the peacekeeping mission said it is “concerned by the recent aggressive posture of the Israeli army involving UNIFIL personnel and…

The Israeli occupation army provided misleading information about the presence of a tunnel beneath the European Gaza Hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, which was bombed twice within 24 hours, local media reported yesterday.

An analysis of aerial images released by the Israeli military “shows that the tunnel is located in a nearby school,” said Israel’s Haaretz daily.

It added that the tunnel is “not inside the hospital as the army…

US President Donald Trump said today that the United States was getting very close to securing a nuclear deal with Iran, and Tehran had “sort of” agreed to the terms, Reuters reports.

“We’re in very serious negotiations with Iran for long-term peace,” Trump said on a tour of the Gulf, according to a shared pool report by AFP.

“We’re getting close to maybe doing a deal without having to do this… there [are] two steps to doing this, there is a…