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Aoun’s election offers Lebanon a chance to reclaim stability and sovereignty, but only if Lebanon’s leaders, backed by international support, address internal divisions and navigate a shifting regional landscape.
“These violations continue to be excluded from the secretariat’s reports,” Danny Danon wrote in a 44-page letter.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has caused sleepless nights for the Jewish state’s political and security leadership.
The option of dividing the country into cantons to protect ethnic minorities could be raised at the conference, provided discussions are confidential.
Ahmed al-Sharaa, aka Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, the leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, addresses a crowd at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria, on Dec. 8, 2024. Photo by Aref Tammawi/AFP via Getty Images.
Planned changes to Syria’s education curriculum raise concerns in the West
Proposed changes include the explicit mention of “Jews and Christians” as those who are “damned and have gone astray.”
Forces discovered an armored personnel carrier with “numerous weapons, anti-tank missiles and explosives,” the IDF said.
“The people of Majdal Shams were scared to normalize or become citizens of Israel because of the Assad regime,” Sheikh Mowafaq Tarif told JNS. “Now the situation is different.”
Barbara Leaf, the U.S. State Department’s top Middle East official, described the Iranian withdrawal as “extraordinary.”
The resurgence is likely to continue, the Institute for National Security Studies’ Yoram Schweitzer tells JNS.
Binyamin Hamra asks Syria’s de facto leader to preserve the country’s Jewish heritage sites.
Mines, explosives, anti-tank missiles, rockets and launchers were among the weapons located and destroyed.
The two men, from the Golan Heights and Galilee, could face up to four years in prison.