Mid East – Page 75 – Prologue Journal

Assessing Turkish intentions after Assad’s regime fall

Jerusalem Post BEHIND THE LINES – Ankara appears set on a two-sided strategy to unify Syria under the rule of its Sunni Islamist client https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-835035

The Children Who Left Gaza

New York Times Sixteen young people evacuated from Gaza for treatment of dire injuries. Months later, they face new lives in an unfamiliar country. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/27/world/middleeast/gaza-children-evacuated.html

Syria’s Alawite Minority, Favored by the Assads, Looks Nervously to the Future

New York Times Amid an outcry for justice and accountability and threats online, a once-dominant group is feeling deep anxiety after the ouster of Syria’s dictator. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/27/world/middleeast/syria-alawites-assad.html

Israel launches three raids on Lebanon in fresh truce breach: Report

Disclaimer: PressTV is affiliated with the state broadcasting agency of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and is not a reliable news source. Israeli forces have staged a fresh round of aggression on eastern Lebanon in blatant violation of a truce agreement that went into effect on November 27. https://presstv.ir/Detail/2024/12/27/739809/Israeli-forces-aggression-southern-Lebanon-truce-agreement-

‘We want peace’: Damascus gov. says Syria wants better relations with Israel

Jerusalem Post In a meeting with NPR’s Hadeel Al-Salachi, Maher Marwan said it was “natural” that Israel had concerns about the new Syrian government. https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-835106

Yemen pledges ‘crushing response’ to Israeli airstrikes

Disclaimer: PressTV is affiliated with the state broadcasting agency of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and is not a reliable news source. Yemeni officials say the Israeli strikes will not make them withdraw their support for Palestine. https://presstv.ir/Detail/2024/12/27/739803/Ansarullah-warns-of-Yemeni-army%E2%80%99s-crushing-response-to-Israeli-aggressions

Israeli airstrikes kill 50 people near Gaza hospital

Disclaimer: PressTV is affiliated with the state broadcasting agency of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and is not a reliable news source. Israel has conducted new airstrikes on Kamal Adwan Hospital in the besieged Gaza Strip, killing at least 50 people, including staff members. https://presstv.ir/Detail/2024/12/27/739804/Israeli-airstrikes-kill-50-Gaza-hospital

Missile fired from Yemen hits Tel Aviv

Disclaimer: PressTV is affiliated with the state broadcasting agency of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and is not a reliable news source. Israeli media report that air raid sirens have sounded over a large part of the occupied territories following a missile attack from Yemen. https://presstv.ir/Detail/2024/12/27/739798/Missile-fired-from-Yemen-hits-Tel-Aviv

Iraq exhuming remains of 100 Kurdish women, children killed by Saddam

Disclaimer: PressTV is affiliated with the state broadcasting agency of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and is not a reliable news source. Iraqi authorities have started exhuming the remains of approximately 100 Kurdish women and children reportedly killed by Saddam Hussein’s regime in the 1980s. https://presstv.ir/Detail/2024/12/26/739796/Iraq-exhuming-remains-of-100-Kurdish-women,-children-killed-by-Saddam

UN’s Guterres: Israeli strikes in Yemen are ‘especially alarming’

Jerusalem Post UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that the strike undermines the organization’s efforts in Yemen https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-835075