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Investigative journalism has exposed a vast network facilitating the illicit smuggling of U.S. dollars out of Lebanon, primarily to Syria and Iraq. This operation, often linked to powerful political figures and financial intermediaries, exploits Lebanon's severe economic crisis and its proximity to conflict zones. The ...
There is looming fear that the ongoing conflict is fast spinning into a broader regional war. Illustrating this potential, on Wednesday a ballistic missile launched from Iran and tracked across Iraqi and Syrian airspace before heading toward Turkish territory was shot down by NATO air defenses, according to Turkey's De...
In a significant and controversial diplomatic move, German opposition leader Friedrich Merz (CDU) has publicly aligned with a Syrian government demand for the mass return of refugees. Following a meeting in Berlin with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa—a figure with a contentious past—Merz stated it is the Syrian leader...
Iraq has restarted overland oil exports through Syria, a significant shift in regional energy logistics that bypasses the volatile Strait of Hormuz. The move, confirmed by Iraq's state oil marketer Somo, involves exporting 50,000 barrels per day of Basra medium crude via Syria to the Mediterranean port of Baniyas, with...
As the United States engages in truce talks with Iran, Israeli military and defense officials are signaling a starkly divergent path: a long-term, semipermanent state of war. This strategic pivot is crystallizing around the creation of expansive "buffer zones" within Gaza, Syria, and Lebanon, a move that institutionali...
The last US military convoy has reportedly departed Syrian territory, marking a definitive end to Washington's 14-year military presence and its brutal regime-change proxy war. This withdrawal concludes a prolonged occupation of northeast Syria's oil-rich regions, a move framed by the US-backed Syrian government as the...
Russia has emerged as Syria's dominant oil supplier since the collapse of the Bashar al-Assad government and the rise to power of Ahmad al-Sharaa, with shipments surging by 75 percent this year to approximately 60,000 barrels per day, according to Reuters calculations using official data and vessel tracking from LSEG, ...