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WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 22: Storm clouds gather near the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday afternoon September 22, 2021 in Washington, DC. Senate Minority Leader McConnell (R-KY) and other Senate Republicans said that they will not vote to pass a continuing resolution to fund the government that would include an increase to the debt ceiling. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

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DAWN Statement About House Foreign Affairs Committee's Decision to Rename the Occupied West Bank

February 27, 2025

Libya's interim Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah (R) welcomes Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni as she arrives for a meeting in Tripoli on May 7, 2024. (Photo by Mahmud Turkia / AFP)

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Libya's interim Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah (R) welcomes Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni as she arrives for a meeting in Tripoli on May 7, 2024. (Photo by Mahmud Turkia / AFP)

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Libya Is the Forgotten Wasteland of the International Order

Palestinian children play amidst the rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on February 17, 2025. (Photo by BASHAR TALEB / AFP)

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In Gaza, My Two-Year-Old Daughter Has Only Known War and Destruction

Tag: Assad

This aerial view shows a neighbourhood devastated by the Syrian civil war, in Daraya, a suburb of Damascus, on December 26, 2024. Islamist-led rebels took Damascus in a lightning offensive on December 8, sending president Bashar al-Assad fleeing and ending five decades of Baath rule in Syria. (Photo by Omar HAJ KADOUR / AFP)

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As Syria's New Rulers Consolidate Power, Rebel Factions Remain in an Uncertain Alliance

January 31, 2025

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The Sculptor in Damascus Who Fears for Her Art in the New Syria

January 24, 2025

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Assad's Fall in Syria Confounds the UAE's Staunchly Anti-Islamist Agenda

January 9, 2025

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'Freed From Assad,' Syrians Rejoice While Wary of What Comes Next

December 20, 2024

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'It Was Annihilation.' Victims of Assad's Chemical Attacks Can Finally Speak Out

December 19, 2024

Israeli military vehicles cross the fence to the buffer zone witrh Syria near the Druze village of Majdal Shams in the Israel-annexed Golan Heights on December 10, 2024. (Photo by Jalaa MAREY / AFP)

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What the Collapse of the Assad Regime Means for Israel

December 13, 2024

Mourners attend the funeral of Syrian activist Mazen al-Hamada (portrait), whose body was found recently, in the capital Damascus on December 12, 2024. Hamada's body was found in Harasta Hospital after Syrian rebels took control of Damascus in a lightning advance. Hamada, who was first imprisoned for participating in anti-government protests in 2011, fled to Europe in 2014 and sought asylum in the Netherlands, where he publicly testified about the abuse and torture he had suffered. In 2020, he unexpectedly returned to Syria, where he was arrested again upon arrival and subsequently disappeared. (Photo by Sameer Al-DOUMY / AFP)

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Syrians Are Finally Free From the Prison of the Assad Regime

December 12, 2024

A defaced portrait of late Syrian president Hafez al-Assad stands above a ransacked government security facility, in Damascus, on December 8, 2024. Islamist-led rebels declared on December 8, that they have taken the Syrian capital in a lightning offensive, sending President Bashar al-Assad fleeing and ending five decades of Baath rule in Syria. (Photo by Rami al SAYED / AFP)

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Assad's Road to Moscow

December 11, 2024

A defaced portrait of ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad stands in a ransacked government security facility, in Damascus, on December 8, 2024. Islamist-led rebels declared on December 8, that they have taken the Syrian capital in a lightning offensive, sending President Bashar al-Assad fleeing and ending five decades of Baath rule in Syria. (Photo by Rami al SAYED / AFP)

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The End of Assad's Kingdom of Fear in Syria

December 10, 2024

DAMASCUS, SYRIA - DECEMBER 08: Syrians celebrate the collapse of 61 years of Baath Party rule in Damascus, Syria on December 08, 2024. Sixty-one years of Baath Party rule in Syria collapsed on Sunday when, the capital fell out of the hands of regime control. As anti-regime armed groups started to dominate the capital, the Assad regime on Sunday morning quickly lost all control of Damascus. (Photo by Bekir Kasim/Anadolu via Getty Images)

DAWN Statement on Fall of Syrian Dictatorship

December 8, 2024

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