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Dec 11, 2024 | 
westhawaiitoday.com | Ben Hubbard |Rawan Ahmad |Qasim Nauman
DAMASCUS, Syria — The rebel alliance that overthrew the Assad government in Syria vowed Tuesday to hunt down and punish senior officials of the previous regime who are implicated in torture and other abuses, but said rank-and-file conscripted soldiers would receive amnesty.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
miamiherald.com | Ben Hubbard |Rawan Ahmad |Qasim Nauman |Thomas Fuller
DAMASCUS, Syria -- The rebel alliance that overthrew the Assad government in Syria vowed Tuesday to hunt down and punish senior officials of the previous regime who are implicated in torture and other abuses, but said rank-and-file conscripted soldiers would receive amnesty.
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Oct 6, 2024 | 
seattletimes.com | Ben Hubbard |Edward Wong |Michael Shear |Maria Abi-Habib |Ben Hubbard |Edward Wong
Everything appeared to be heading in the right direction for a breakthrough in Middle East peacemaking, to avert a spiraling war that would embroil the region. Officials from the United Nations, France and the United States had drafted a statement calling for a three-week cease-fire aimed at preventing a broader conflict between Hezbollah and Israel, and shared it with the two sides to consider.
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Mar 14, 2024 | 
seattletimes.com | Ben Hubbard |Bilal Shbair
RAFAH, Gaza Strip — The fear has been building for weeks. More than 1 million Palestinians fled into Rafah, the southernmost region of the Gaza Strip, hoping to escape the war. Now, Israel has threatened to extend its invasion there, too. Amid days filled with struggles to secure food, water and shelter, uncertainty has dominated people’s conversations, said Khalid Shurrab, a charity worker staying with his family in a leaky tent in Rafah.
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Dec 26, 2023 | 
post-gazette.com | Constant Méheut |Ben Hubbard
KYIV — Ukraine’s top general on Tuesday called for mobilizing more troops, a rare acknowledgment of heavy casualties after nearly two years of war with Russia. In his first news conference since Russia’s invasion in February 2022, Gen. Valery Zaluzhny also conceded that Ukrainian troops have largely withdrawn from the eastern Ukrainian town of Marinka.
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Dec 23, 2023 | 
newsbreak.com | Ben Hubbard
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Dec 23, 2023 | 
seattletimes.com | Ben Hubbard |Roni Rabin
United Nations and other aid workers warned on Saturday that a new U.N. Security Council resolution calling for stepped-up aid for the Gaza’s Strip’s embattled civilians would fail to stop the spiraling humanitarian crisis because it did not demand a full halt to the fighting. The resolution called on the U.N. secretary-general to appoint a special coordinator for aid to Gaza and establish a mechanism to speed up aid delivery in consultation with all relevant parties.
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Dec 14, 2023 | 
seattletimes.com | Ben Hubbard
The main reason Israel’s heavy bombardment of the Gaza Strip for nine weeks has not pushed hundreds of thousands of Palestinians into Egypt is that country’s heavily fortified border and Cairo’s ironclad determination to keep it closed. But pressure is building. Israel has been pushing Gaza’s 2.2 million residents relentlessly south as its forces seek to destroy Hamas’ military wing and its infrastructure, and about 85% of the population has been displaced.
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Dec 10, 2023 | 
pressdemocrat.com | Ben Hubbard |Vivian Nereim
United Nations officials warned Sunday that pressure was mounting near the Gaza Strip’s border with Egypt, an area where tens of thousands of Palestinians have tried to flee Israel’s military campaign. The Rafah border crossing with Egypt has become even more crucial since Israel imposed a complete siege of Gaza in response to the deadly Oct. 7 attack led by Hamas.
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Dec 9, 2023 | 
seattletimes.com | Ben Hubbard
ISTANBUL — Much of the Gaza Strip lies in ruins, with its people pushed from their homes by Israeli bombardment and the death toll climbing ever higher. On the ground, Hamas, which has ruled Gaza for 16 years, has largely vanished, other than when its fighters pop up to attack Israeli tanks or fire rockets at Israel. But the group is still reaping benefits from its surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7. It is regarded as the only Palestinian faction to squeeze concessions from Israel in many years.
