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Who are the main actors in the fall of the regime in Syria?
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Assault on Aleppo: who are the Syrian rebels HTS and why are they advancing?
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham
(HTS; Levant Liberation Union) is led by Ahmed al-Sharaa, also known asAbu Mohammed al-Jolani
, and is the dominant faction in the rebel alliance which toppled …UK foreign secretary calls Bashar al-Assad ‘the rat of Damascus’
Bashar al-Assad is the “rat of Damascus fleeing to Moscow with his tail between his legs”, the UK foreign secretary has said after Islamist rebels took control of the Syrian capital over the weekend.
Speaking in the Commons, David Lammy said the Labour government had resisted pressure to re-engage with …
From Trump to Raygun, here’s what Australians searched on Google in 2024
Australians may not get a vote in the US presidential election but it topped the Google searches in the country in 2024, with Raygun, Julian Assange and the CrowdStrike outage being some of the key people and moments Australians wanted to know more about in the year.
The election that …
UK and other European states suspend Syrians’ asylum applications
The UK and other European countries have said they will suspend the processing of asylum applications from Syrians after the fall of the Assad regime in Damascus, with Austria already preparing a “repatriation and deportation” programme to the country.
In London, a Home Office spokesperson said it had “temporarily paused …
Keir Starmer says Saudi Arabia trip fulfils ‘number one mission’ to grow UK economy
Keir Starmer has defended his trip to Saudi Arabia, saying it was needed to fulfil his “number one mission” of growing the UK economy.
Speaking during a visit to Riyadh, where he met the Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, the prime minister said his “sole intention” there was to …
Making sense of racing’s ‘£3bn black hole’ and affordability checks row
The increasingly frenzied cycle of claim and counter-claim over the impact of “affordability checks” on punters on the sport’s revenue stream from betting moved through several gears at once last week, with “out of control”, “unaccountable” and “thorough misunderstanding” among the accusations being thrown in one direction or the other.
…Israel seizes Syrian buffer zone amid airstrikes on regime ‘weapons depots’
Israeli forces have seized control of a previously demilitarised buffer zone in Syrian-controlled territory in the Golan Heights and attacked what it said were regime weapons depots with airstrikes, as the
shock victory of Syrian rebels over Bashar al-Assad
reshapes the region’s frontlines.Speaking at a news …
A quick-fix way for Rachel Reeves to tax the wealthy | Letters
George Osborne is a walking ad for a wealth tax. Labour should target the inheritocracy, 3 December
), of course a tax on wealth as well as on income has been needed for a long time. But how about this for a quick fix? …Time to clean up political donations in Britain | Letters
The conversation about donations is too narrow (
Can we keep the Elon Musks of the world out of British politics? Only if we act now, 3 December
). Donors buy influence to achieve their personal and business policy objectives at the expense of the majority. Unsolicited donations, no …