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Dec 6, 2024 | 
cbsnews.com | Haley Ott |Omar Abdulkader
Syrian rebel forces were approaching the country's third largest city of Homs on Friday, a human rights group that monitors the war reported, raising the prospect of the country's capital city Damascus being cut off from coastal areas that are a stronghold of President Bashar al-Assad.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
cbsnews.com | Haley Ott |Omar Abdulkader
Syrian rebels close in on city of Homs Syria's long-running civil war came to a head Sunday when opposition forces entered the capital city of Damascus and the government of President Bashar al-Assad collapsed. Russian state media later reported that Assad and his family had fled to Moscow.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
cbsnews.com | Imtiaz Tyab |Agnes Reau |Omar Abdulkader
Fears of wider conflict grow in Mideast Beirut, Lebanon — Israel expanded its airstrikes on Iran-backed groups in Lebanon and beyond over the weekend, launching raids thousands of miles away on Yemen's Houthi rebels.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
cbsnews.com | Omar Abdulkader
Sulaymaniyah, Iraq — Officials, family members and journalists gathered Saturday in Freedom Park, in the northern Iraqi city of Sulaymaniyah, for the unveiling of a new monument to the "Guardians of Truth." The monument commemorates the lives of journalists killed covering the more than two decades of warfare that have plagued Iraq since 2003.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
cbsnews.com | Imtiaz Tyab |Omar Abdulkader
Netanyahu defiant amid 3rd night of protests Tel Aviv — Anger at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu following the killings of the six Israeli hostages whose bodies were found over the weekend in a tunnel in Gaza was still mounting Wednesday as bloodshed in the Palestinian territory continued.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Imtiaz Tyab |Omar Abdulkader
IsraelNowIDF kills over 200 terrorists in Rafah operationThe Jewish Chronicle - JC Reporter • 53mIsraeli forces have killed more than 200 terrorists in its operations in the Tel al-Sultan area of Rafah in southern Gaza, the military said on …Israel1 day agoHamas admits to killing hostages, releases video of slain hostage Eden Yerushalmijpost.com - By JERUSALEM POST STAFF • 1dHamas has issued new instructions to guards on handling hostages if Israeli troops approach hostage holding sites.
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Omar Abdulkader
Israeli military extends operations in Gaza City 02:00 Tel Aviv — A civil defense worker in Gaza City tells CBS News that 65 bodies were found under the rubble in just one neighborhood of the Palestinian city decimated by the latest Israeli assault. It had been Gaza's biggest city, before the war sparked by the Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel by the territory's Hamas rulers. Israel's military told everyone in Gaza City to evacuate again this week — for the second time since the war started.
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
cbsnews.com | Holly Williams |Omar Abdulkader
Israel extends operations in Gaza City Tel Aviv — A civil defense worker in Gaza City tells CBS News that 65 bodies were found under the rubble in just one neighborhood of the Palestinian city decimated by the latest Israeli assault. It had been Gaza's biggest city, before the war sparked by the Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel by the territory's Hamas rulers. Israel's military told everyone in Gaza City to evacuate again this week — for the second time since the war started.
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
aol.com | Holly Williams |Omar Abdulkader
July 12, 2024 at 8:58 AMTel Aviv — A civil defense worker in Gaza City tells CBS News that 65 bodies were found under the rubble in just one neighborhood of the Palestinian city decimated by the latest Israeli assault. It had been Gaza's biggest city, before the war sparked by the Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel by the territory's Hamas rulers. Israel's military told everyone in Gaza City to evacuate again this week — for the second time since the war started.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
cbsnews.com | Holly Williams |Omar Abdulkader
Tel Aviv — A surge of hope for a breakthrough in Israel-Hamas cease-fire talks drew CIA Director William Burns back to the Middle East this week, but the hopes have been tempered by a blistering Israeli airstrike on a school sheltering displaced Palestinians in southern Gaza. The attack killed at least 29 people at the Al Awda school in Khan Younis, according to an official at the nearby al-Nasser Hospital.
