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  • Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits Mount Hermon – known to Syrians as Jabel Sheikh – on the Syrian side of the border on Tuesday. Follow for live news updates.

    Middle East crisis live
    Middle East crisis live: hopes for Israel-Gaza ceasefire deal rise as officials express cautious optimism

  • A line of women wearing hijabs and veils, many carrying young children, in a line across a road.

    Rights and freedom
    Kenyan single mothers ‘trapped’ in Saudi Arabia as exit visas denied to children born outside marriage

  • Mortar shells lying on the ground after a Turkish airstrike near Qamishli, north-east of Syria.

    Middle East crisis live
    Middle East crisis: UN envoy to Syria warns conflict is not over amid ‘significant hostilities’ – as it happened

  • Israeli troops  walk through destroyed neighbourhood

    Hopes for Gaza ceasefire-for-hostages deal rise

  • Martin Rowson on Bashar al-Assad’s new life in Moscow – cartoon

    Guardian Opinion cartoon
    Martin Rowson on Bashar al-Assad’s new life in Moscow – cartoon

  • Syrian people living in Istanbul hold up a banner showing Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, as they celebrate the end of Bashar al-Assad’s reign.

    ‘Ankara is getting what it wants’: how Erdoğan’s balancing act in Syria paid off

  • Palestinians seeking US refuge face a Kafkaesque nightmare. Trump could make it even worse

  • Dolphin Boy review – human baby lives under the sea in watery kids animation

  • In the end, Syria and Assad became just too toxic – even for Putin

    Nikolay Kozhanov
  • Abu Mohammed al-Jolani speaking in front of a crowd

    Today in Focus
    The reformed jihadi? Al-Jolani, the new most powerful man in Syria - podcast

  • Simon Harris headshot

    Ireland will not be silenced by Israel over criticism of Gaza war, taoiseach says

  • Syrian fighters watch Russian armoured vehicles driving past near the Khmeimim airbase.

    Inside the Russian airbase in Syria where troops form fragile truce with rebels they once bombed

  • A military vehicle with an Israeli flag

    Turkey condemns Israel plan to double Golan Heights population

  • Assad denies planning to flee Syria before evacuation by Moscow

  • Assad uncle used Guernsey adviser to secretly manage vast wealth

  • Sacks of chemicals, plastic fruit … and millions of pills: inside a Damascus Captagon factory

  • First Thing newsletter
    First Thing: Israel strikes Syria as Netanyahu approves settlement expansion

  • US seeks stronger UN powers to intercept Red Sea shipments to Yemen’s Houthis

  • Things could go very wrong in Syria – they could also go very right. Let’s give its people optimism

    Nesrine Malik
  • Palestinians in Gaza inspect the scene after an airstrike hit a Unrwa-run school sheltering displaced people in Khan Younis on Sunday. Benjamin Netanyahu said he spoke to Donald Trump at the weekend over Syria and efforts to free hostages being held in Gaza.

    Netanyahu says he held ‘friendly’ talks with Trump over Syria and Gaza hostages

    Israeli PM spoke of ‘warm’ discussion with US president-elect amid pressure from Trump camp for progress on hostage releases
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