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TEL AVIV — In the past two days, media outlets around the world have reported that hundreds of politicians, officials, journalists, and activists in several countries have been targeted with Pegasus spyware developed by Israeli company NSO Intelligence Group. Some countries, including France, wanted to open an official investigation after…

NICOSIA / ANKARA — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan travelled to Northern Cyprus to commemorate the 47th anniversary of the Turkish invasion that divided the island in two. Northern Cyprus, officially the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, is a de facto state that comprises the northeastern portion of the island…

PARIS / NORTH AND EAST SYRIA — A joint delegation from the Democratic Autonomous Administration (DAA) of North and East Syria and the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC) met with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris at his invitation. During the meeting, the DAA’s experience, its future, as well as its…

Södertälje / Washington – In the 2018 Turkish invasion of North and East Syria called “Operation Peace Spring”, Turkish proxy militias of the Syrian National Army attacked the countryside and villages around Rish Ayno (Ras al-Ayn) in North and East Syria. While defending their villages, three members of the Syriac…

BERLIN — Germany still ranks first among EU countries in terms of the number of asylum applications, 36% of whom are from Syria, the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) has revealed. The number of asylum seekers in Germany from war-torn countries has increased due to Germany’s reception and absorption of…

BERLIN — A German court sentenced a woman convicted of fighting with the Islamic State (ISIS) to three years and four months in prison. The 31-year-old woman had traveled with her daughter from Berlin to Syria and joined ISIS in 2014. The woman was accused of several charges, the most…

BRUSSELS — Following the recognition of the Islamic State’s (ISIS) genocide of the Yezidi people by the Dutch Parliament, 139 out of 150 MPs in the Belgian Parliament voted to recognize the same crimes as genocide. The Belgian Parliament’s Foreign Relations Committee submitted the draft bill to the Parliament, which…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — At a time when negotiations on a nuclear deal between the United States and Iran remain in limbo, there have been voices against completing negotiations from within the corridors of the U.S. Congress, specifically by Republicans, including Senior Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Jim Rich.…

HESSE, Germany — As part of its fight against cells of the Islamic State (ISIS), German authorities carried out raids in the state of Hesse in western Germany against people suspected of belonging to ISIS and preparing violent attacks across Germany. The Regional Crime Office published on Twitter that the…

AMSTERDAM — After the creativity and excellence that he showed in his paintings and drawings, Syriac visual artist Rabi Elias Gawreya was honored at the Royal Palace in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Gawreya, who is from Zalin (Qamishli) in North and East Syria, was born in 1988. This is not the first…