Middle East
Friday 4 April 2025
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![Smoke rises while members of the Syrian forces ride on a vehicle as they battle against a nascent insurgency by fighters from ousted leader Bashar al-Assad's Alawite sect, in Latakia, Syria March 7, 2025.]()
March 12, 2025Syrian Kurds concerned following attacks on Alawites
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![FILE - A demonstrator holds a picture of jailed Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan during a rally in Diyarbakir, Turkey, Feb. 27, 2025.]()
March 12, 2025Civil society organizations support Ocalan's call for peace
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![Residents celebrate following the signing of a breakthrough deal between Syria's interim government and the SDF, the Kurdish-led authority that controls the country's northeast, in Qamishli, northeastern Syria, March 10, 2025.]()
March 12, 2025SDF-Syrian interim government agreement seen as positive
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![An undated social media image of Bashdar Baziani, a journalist with Media21, who was arrested in Sulaimani in Iraq's Kurdistan Region.]()
March 12, 2025Watchdog urges release of detained journalist in Kurdistan
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![In this photo released by Syrian state news agency SANA, Syria's interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa, right, shakes hands with Mazloum Abdi, the commander of the U.S.-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, in Damascus, Syria, March 10, 2025. (SANA via AP)]()
March 11, 2025SDF-Syrian army deal prompts debate
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![FILE - Residents of northeastern Syria walk at the Tishrin Dam to join a sit-in demanding an end to the war in the region in Aleppo's countryside, Syria, Jan. 8, 2025.]()
March 11, 2025In Kobani, people protest Alevi massacres, Turkish bombings
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![FILE - Iranian people walk at a flower market, ahead of Nowruz, the Persian new year, in Tehran, Iran, March 17, 2024. (Majid Asgaripour/WANA via Reuters)]()
March 11, 2025Nowruz markets in 'hibernation' mode
