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1 week ago | 
syriaweekly.com | Charles Lister
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2 weeks ago | 
syriaweekly.com | Charles Lister
Dear reader – given the clearly persistent trend of vigilante justice in recent months, Syria Weekly has added a new dataset (based on all preceding Syria Weekly reporting) covering all vigilante justice and targeted killings of former Assad regime operatives and associated family members and communities.
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3 weeks ago | 
foreignpolicy.com | Charles Lister
Middle East and North Africa When U.S. President Donald Trump’s newly appointed special envoy to Syria, Thomas Barrack, paid his first visit to Damascus on May 29, he flew into the country on U.S. military helicopters from Jordan.
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3 weeks ago | 
foreignpolicy.com | Charles Lister
Middle East and North Africa When U.S. President Donald Trump’s newly appointed special envoy to Syria, Thomas Barrack, paid his first visit to Damascus on May 29, he flew into the country on U.S. military helicopters from Jordan.
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1 month ago | 
open.substack.com | Charles Lister
1. It’s Trump Rules (aligning with DOD)For 5 months, the entirety of President Trump’s national security apparatus — from the National Security Council, to the State Department and intelligence community — has voiced varying degrees of hostility, skepticism and/or indifference to Syria’s post-Assad transitional government.
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2 months ago | 
syriaweekly.com | Charles Lister
While the overall level of deadly violence across Syria remained almost exactly the same as the week prior — with 88 deaths recorded this week, and 87 the week before — the proportion of deaths caused by unexploded ordinance declined significantly, from 30% last week to 19% this week. In other words, the frequency and deadliness of armed and military attacks and actions rose notably over the past seven days, particularly in the form of targeted killings, as well as kidnaps and executions.
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2 months ago | 
syriaweekly.com | Charles Lister
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2 months ago | 
syriaweekly.com | Charles Lister
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2 months ago | 
syriaweekly.com | Charles Lister
Syria’s transitional government was announced late on March 29, in an inauguration ceremony at the People’s Palace in Damascus. The 23-member cabinet contains 9 ‘independent’ ministers, 7 former members of the Salvation Government and 5 people who previously held senior government positions under Bashar al-Assad, pre-2011.
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Mar 27, 2025 | 
foreignpolicy.com | Charles Lister
Middle East and North Africa In the past six weeks, the Israeli military has launched at least 70 ground incursions into southwestern Syria and conducted at least 31 sets of airstrikes across Syria.
