(2025-10-22). Susan Watkins: Israel after Fordow. newleftreview.org Netanyahu is building on the obliteration of Gaza to launch an external offensive across multiple fronts, aiming at cantonization in Lebanon and Syria, and regime change, if not state break-up, in Iran. What explains the West's political investment in an Israeli-centric Middle East, on conspicuous display during June's Twelve-Day War?
(2025-10-22). Syria arrests officer in charge of notorious Assad-era prison. newarab.com 
Syrian authorities said on Wednesday they had arrested a former military official accused of In a statement, the interior ministry said the Damascus province's counter-terrorism branch arrested Major General Akram Salloum al-Abdullah. | It said he had held "several positions, most notably as Commander of the Military Police at…
(2025-10-22). Three Druze civilians killed after van shot at in Syria's Idlib. newarab.com 
Three Druze civilians were killed, and others were injured on Tuesday evening when a passenger van was targeted in an armed attack in northwest Syria. | The van that was transporting civilians was shot at by gunmen riding a motorbike on the road near the town of Kafr Takharim, close to the Jabal al-Summaq region in the Nasif Abu Fahd, a relative of the victims, told The New Arab's sister site, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, that "unidentified gunmen opened direct fire on a passenger van transporting civ…
(2025-10-22). 2 killed in a car bomb blast in eastern Syria's Aleppo. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Oct. 22 (MNA) — Local media in Syria on Wednesday reported that two people were killed in a car bomb explosion in the village of Aziziyah in eastern Aleppo countryside, northern Syria.
(2025-10-22). Syria's New Leader Promised Democracy. Then He Excluded Women From Parliamentary Elections. menafn.com (MENAFN – The Conversation) Women's political participation is often treated as a measure of a country's commitment to equality and democracy.Earlier this year, Syria's new leader, President Ahmed …
(2025-10-22). Starmer removes Syrian ISIS subsidiary HTS from terror ban list. thecanary.co The Starmer government has formally announced that it will be removing Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) from its list of banned, or 'proscribed', terrorist organisations. HTS, effectively ISIS in Syria and disowned by terrorist group al-Qaeda as too extreme, now runs Syria — despite resistance from groups opposing its slaughter of Syria's religious minorities. Israel has […] | By
(2025-10-22). Belarus takes part in international cultural festival in Beijing. eng.belta.by The Belarusian exhibition stand was showcased at the 22nd International Cultural Festival of Peking University. Atteding the event was Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of | the Republic of Belarus to the People's Republic of China Aleksandr…