
Raya Jalabi
Correspondent at Financial Times
@FT Middle East Correspondent (🇱🇧🇸🇾🇮🇶 ). I don't like condensing thoughts and I don't like Twitter. مراسلة الفاينانشال تايمز ببيروت | [email protected]
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3 days ago |
ft.com | James Shotter |Raya Jalabi
Israel has threatened to retaliate against the new government in Damascus after missiles were launched towards Israel from Syria for the...
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4 days ago |
ft.com | Raya Jalabi
Washington has significantly reduced its troop presence in Syria, its special envoy to the country Thomas Barrack has said, amid warming...
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1 week ago |
ft.com | Raya Jalabi |James Shotter
Syria and Israel have held several rounds of direct talks in recent weeks aiming to quell spiralling tensions between the neighbouring...
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2 weeks ago |
ft.com | Raya Jalabi
Washington has granted Syria broad exemptions from sweeping economic sanctions in a step towards fulfilling US President Donald Trump’s...
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3 weeks ago |
irishtimes.com | Andrew England |Ahmed Al Omran |Raya Jalabi
President Donald Trump has met Syria‘s new president Ahmed al-Sharaa in Riyadh and urged him to normalise ties with Israel, one day after he announced that the US would lift sanctions on the country and consider restoring relations. The move marks a dramatic softening of Washington’s stance towards Syria after Mr Sharaa’s Islamist movement led a rebel offensive that toppled dictator Bashar al-Assad and ended his family’s more than 50-year dynastic rule over the Arab state.
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Lebanon closes in on new BdL head in test of reform agenda: “The stakes are too high: you can’t have the same people responsible for the biggest crisis Lebanon has ever been through also trying to restructure the banking sector,” said @Nasser_Saidi https://t.co/sqYXeHFElN

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Is the man once known as Abu Mohammad al-Jolani intent on moderating or a brutal strongman? https://t.co/7UKD4vaevK

RT @maxseddon: Syria’s new government pressed Moscow about reparations in their first meeting with a Kremlin delegation since the downfall…