Syria
700,000 Syrians return from Lebanon, Beirut says
Lebanon's social affairs minister said Monday that about 700,000 Syrians have returned home from Lebanon, calling it proof of "the success of coordination between the two countries."
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Monday that eradication of the Kurdish YPG militia in Syria was "imminent", and that Ankara would not agree to any policy that allowed the YPG to maintain a presence there.
Hakan Fidan © Mena Today
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Monday that eradication of the Kurdish YPG militia in Syria was "imminent", and that Ankara would not agree to any policy that allowed the YPG to maintain a presence there.
"We are in a position to not only see but also to break any kind of plot in the region," Fidan said in a joint press conference with his Jordanian counterpart Ayman Safadi.
Reporting by Tuvan Gumrukcu
Lebanon's social affairs minister said Monday that about 700,000 Syrians have returned home from Lebanon, calling it proof of "the success of coordination between the two countries."
Mehrdad Akhlaghi, who is subject to United Nations sanctions, formally became Iran's defense minister on Sunday, replacing the man killed on the first day of the war in Israeli-US strikes at the end of February.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has revealed that he phoned Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa in July 2025 to demand an end to the killing of Druze in Syria's Sweida province.
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