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JOINT BASE ANDREWS, MARYLAND - MAY 12: U.S. Presidåçent Donald Trump boards Air Force One on May 12, 2025, at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. President Trump is traveling to Saudi Arabia, the first stop on his four-day Middle East visit and the first international trip of his second term. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

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U.S. President Donald Trump greets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House in Washington, D.C. on February 4, 2025. (Photo by Bryan Dozier / Middle East Images / Middle East Images via AFP) (Photo by BRYAN DOZIER/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 09: Mohsen Mahdawi speaks at a protest on the Columbia University campus on November 9, 2023 in New York City. Mahdawi, a Columbia University student and green card holder, was arrested in Vermont by immigration officials on April 14, 2025. (Photo by Mukta Joshi/Getty Images)

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 09: Mohsen Mahdawi speaks at a protest on the Columbia University campus on November 9, 2023 in New York City. Mahdawi, a Columbia University student and green card holder, was arrested in Vermont by immigration officials on April 14, 2025. (Photo by Mukta Joshi/Getty Images)

Mohsen Mahdawi: The Peacemaker They Failed to Silence

JOINT BASE ANDREWS, MARYLAND - MAY 12: U.S. Presidåçent Donald Trump boards Air Force One on May 12, 2025, at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. President Trump is traveling to Saudi Arabia, the first stop on his four-day Middle East visit and the first international trip of his second term. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

DAWN Statement on President Trump's Scheduled Visit to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE

U.S. President Donald Trump greets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House in Washington, D.C. on February 4, 2025. (Photo by Bryan Dozier / Middle East Images / Middle East Images via AFP) (Photo by BRYAN DOZIER/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

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Democracy In Exile

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

January 9, 2025

A visitor tours the Nuhad Es-Said Pavilion for Culture at the National Museum of Beirut on November 7, 2024. The pavilion has chosen to open its doors to the public and provide a an environment of hope for all those wishing to discover its space dedicated to art and culture, amid the ongoing war between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah group. (Photo by Anwar AMRO / AFP)

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In Lebanon, Art and Culture Respond to Another Moment of Intense Upheaval

December 27, 2024

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

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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)

Democracy In Exile

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

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A billboard bearing a picture of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad and a national flag are torn by anti-government fighters in the northern city of Aleppo on November 30, 2024. Jihadists and their Turkish-backed allies breached Syria's second city of Aleppo on November 29, as they pressed a lightning offensive against forces of the Iranian- and Russian-backed government. (Photo by Omar HAJ KADOUR / AFP)

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Syrians Still Want to Be Rid of Assad and His Foreign Backers

December 2, 2024

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