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Syrians to return from Lebanon to start under UN-backed plan
The New Arab
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July 10, 2025
The Lebanese government is targeting between 200,000 and 400,000 returns this year under the plan [Getty/file photo] Thousands of Syrian refugees are set to return from Lebanon this week under the first, UN-backed plan providing financial...
What U.S. Businesses Need to Know About Reentering the Syrian Market & the Changing Post-Assad Sanction Landscape
National Law Review
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July 9, 2025
On May 23, 2025, approximately five months after the Assad regime was overthrown, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) officially issued Syria General License (GL) 25, which lifted the sanctions initially placed...
US lawsuit exposes Turkey-based Ponzi scheme tied to Syrian opposition figure
Nordic Monitor
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July 9, 2025
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm A major fraud lawsuit filed in US federal court has exposed an international Ponzi scheme involving a high-profile Syrian opposition figure with close ties to officials in the Islamist government of Turkish President...
Azerbaijan readies gas supplies for Syria
Upstream
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Baku aiming to help Turkey increase its involvement in nighbour Syria's energy sector Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (left) and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev pose for a photo in Khankendi, Azerbaijan, on 4 July 2025Photo: AZERI PRESS...
Türkiye will soon begin supplying gas to Syria: Bayraktar
Hurriyet Daily News
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VIENNA Türkiye will soon begin supplying gas to Syria, Energy and Natural Resources Minister Alparslan Bayraktar announced, adding that Türkiye has established a direct connection between its natural gas network and Syria’s infrastructure....
A Syrian death factory gives up its secrets
Mint
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July 10, 2025
Once a month, around midnight, the guards at Saydnaya Prison would call the names of the condemned, usually dozens at a time. They wrapped nooses around their necks, then dragged tables from beneath their feet with a scraping that echoed through...
Turkish Energy Minister Says SOCAR May Become Partner in Providing Gas to Syria
Asharq Al-Awsat
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July 10, 2025
A review of the embattled United Nations Palestinian relief agency UNRWA, ordered by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, has identified four possible ways forward for the organization that has lost US funding and been banned by Israel. The...
Wildfires in Syria's Latakia affect 2,000 families
Daily Finland
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Some 1,900 Syrian families have been directly affected, with thousands more at risk, as wildfires continue to ravage Syria's northwestern province of Latakia for an eighth consecutive day, the United Nations (UN) humanitarian agency said...
Syria, Algeria discuss cooperation in electricity sector
SANA
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July 9, 2025
Damascus, SANA-Energy Minister Mohammad al-Bashir discussed, on Wednesday, with a delegation from an Algerian company, specializing in the production and distribution of electricity and gas, ways to enhance technical cooperation between the two...
Syria Discusses Oil Cooperation with U.S. Company to Improve Transportation Efficiency
SANA
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July 9, 2025
Damascus, SANA-Syrian Energy Minister Mohammad al-Bashir discussed, on Wednesday, with a delegation from the American company Blacken Energy ways to boost cooperation in the field of oil transportation, as part of efforts to develop the energy...
Syrians Begin Returning From Lebanon Under UN-Backed Plan In Significant Policy Shift
StratNews Global
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July 9, 2025
Home syria Syrians Begin Returning From Lebanon Under UN-Backed Plan In Significant Policy Shift Returning Syrians will be provided with $100 each in Lebanon and $400 per family upon arrival in Syria, Lebanese Social Affairs Minister Haneen Sayed...
Syrian returns from Lebanon to begin under UN-backed plan
LBCI (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International)
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Thousands of Syrian refugees are set to return from Lebanon this week under the first, U.N.-backed plan providing financial incentives, after Syria's new rulers said all citizens were welcome home despite deep war damage and security concerns....
Syrian-Belgian talks to boost economic and investment cooperation
SANA
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July 9, 2025
Damascus, SANA- – Director of Damascus and its countryside Chamber of Industry, Eng. Muhammad Ayman al-Mawlawi, received Wednesday the Belgian Ambassador to Beirut, Arnout Pauwels, and his accompanying delegation at the Chamber’s building in...
Moses Montefiore and the Damascus Affair
The Jewish Press
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July 9, 2025
Probably the most famous Anglo-Jew of the 19th century, the much-beloved Moses Montefiore (1784-1885) was scrupulously observant of his faith and used his personal standing to further the cause of oppressed Jews everywhere. Between 1827 and 1875,...
Wildfires in Syria's Latakia affect nearly 2,000 families
Xinhua News Agency
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DAMASCUS, July 9 (Xinhua) -- Some 1,900 Syrian families have been directly affected, with thousands more at risk, as wildfires continue to ravage Syria's northwestern province of Latakia for an eighth consecutive day, the United Nations (UN)...
Syria exports first industrial shipment to United States
Zaman Al Wsl
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July 9, 2025
For the first time in more than a decade, Syria has exported its first industrial shipment to the United States, following a decade and a half of sanctions and cessation. Yesterday, Tuesday, the first industrial shipment departed from a Syrian...
Production from Risha Gas Field to Be Increased to 75 Million Cubic Feet per Day
Jordan News
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July 9, 2025
The Director General of the National Petroleum Company, Engineer Mohammad Al-Khasawneh, announced that the company is currently working to raise natural gas production from the Risha gas field to around 75 million cubic feet per day, up from the...
Syria in cooperation with WFP Launch of Rapid Response Program to Support Fire Victims
SANA
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July 9, 2025
Lattakia, SANA- Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Amjad Badr, announced Wednesday the launch of a rapid response program in cooperation with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to support those affected by the fires that broke out a few days...
Syrian designer Rami Al Ali to make history at Paris Couture Week
RTL Today
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As well as being optimistic about the future of his war-ravaged country, Rami Al Ali has other reasons to be upbeat: he is about to become the first Syrian fashion designer to show his work at Paris Haute Couture Week. The invitation to appear on...
Syrian Returns from Lebanon to Start under UN-backed Plan
Asharq Al-Awsat
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July 9, 2025
Thousands of Syrian refugees are set to return from Lebanon this week under the first, UN-backed plan providing financial incentives, after Syria's new rulers said all citizens were welcome home despite deep war damage and security concerns....