Syria's Ministry of Telecommunications announced Wednesday that Kuwait's Zain Group has been awarded a new mobile telecommunications licence in Syria, the latest in a series of Gulf investments flowing into the country since the fall of Bashar al-Assad in December 2024.
The Israeli military withdrawal from two "pilot zones" in southern Lebanon, scheduled under last Friday's framework agreement between Lebanon and Israel, has been postponed until both sides agree on a "joint supervision mechanism," Israeli Channel 11 reported.
Five years ago, the West risked a full-blown diplomatic crisis with NATO ally Turkey when 10 ambassadors called for the release of a man they saw as a political prisoner, prompting an angry President Tayyip Erdogan to order their expulsion.
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