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18.12.2024 09:10 Palestinian news outlets have seen a steep drop in audience engagement since October 2023.

18.12.2024 09:10 Pope Francis reveals in his new book that he was targeted by suicide bombers during a 2021 trip to Iraq.

18.12.2024 04:21 Most of the more than 100,000 people who disappeared in Syria since 2011 are now believed to be dead.

17.12.2024 13:30 Video shows Syrian rebel fighters gather around the burning tomb of the late president Hafez al-Assad.

17.12.2024 13:30 The BBC's international editor returns to Bashar al-Assad's presidential palace, where he interviewed him in 2015.

17.12.2024 13:30 Inside the infamous prison's corridors it becomes clear how hard it will be to mend the Syria that Assad broke.

17.12.2024 13:30 Quentin Sommerville is on patrol with HTS in Latakia, as they pledge to protect minorities.

17.12.2024 13:30 The official outlines a phased plan which would see hostages freed in step with Israeli pullouts.

17.12.2024 07:52 Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Aysenur Ezgi Eygi's family Israel will soon finalise its own probe.

17.12.2024 07:52 It's a bittersweet return for residents of Homs, which was the site of a brutal years-long siege.

17.12.2024 03:31 Increasing efforts are being made to engage with HTS, which overthrew the Assad regime earlier this month.

16.12.2024 22:50 President Massoud Pezeshkian says the proposed "hijab and chastity" law is "ambiguous and in need of reform".

16.12.2024 17:20 The Israeli military says Sunday's strikes targeted sites used by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

16.12.2024 17:20 In what appears to be his first reaction since fleeing Syria, the former president says Russia decided to airlift him to Moscow.

16.12.2024 17:20 The foreign secretary's remarks come as the government announced £50m of humanitarian aid for Syrians.