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2 months ago | sightmagazine.com.au | Maayan Lubell |Tom Perry |Anthony Deutsch |Tala Ramadan

ReutersPresident Donald Trump’s plan for the United States to take over the war-ravaged Gaza Strip and develop it economically touches on one the most sensitive issues in the Arab-Israeli conflict. Trump’s plans are likely to heighten fears among Palestinians in Gaza, which had a pre-war population of around 2.3 million, of being driven out of the coastal strip, and stoke concern in Arab states that have long worried about the destabilising impact of any such exodus.

Dec 8, 2024 | sightmagazine.com.au | Tom Perry |David Adams

TOM PERRY, of Reuters, reports on the rise and fall of now deposed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad…ReutersSyria’s Bashar al-Assad used Russian and Iranian firepower to beat back rebel forces during years of civil war but never defeated them, leaving him vulnerable to their breathtaking advance when his allies were distracted by wars elsewhere. President for 24 years, Assad flew out of Damascus for an unknown destination early on Sunday, two senior army officers told Reuters.

Dec 8, 2024 | sightmagazine.com.au | Tom Perry |David Adams

Beirut, LebanonReutersAs the commander of al-Qaeda’s franchise in the Syrian civil war, Abu Mohammed al-Golani was a shadowy figure who kept out of the public eye, even when his group became the most powerful faction fighting to topple Bashar al-Assad. Today, he is the most recognisable of Syria’s triumphant rebels, having gradually stepped into the limelight since severing ties to al-Qaeda in 2016, rebranding his group, and leading the rebels who ousted Assad after 13 years of civil war.

Nov 15, 2024 | theprint.in | Maya Gebeilly |Riham Alkousaa |Timour Azhari |Tom Perry

The U.S. ambassador to Lebanon on Thursday submitted a draft truce proposal to Lebanon’s parliament speaker Nabih Berri, who is endorsed by Hezbollah to negotiate, two senior Lebanese political sources told Reuters without providing details. The draft was Washington’s first written proposal to halt fighting between its ally Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah in at least several weeks, the sources said. “It is a draft to get observations from the Lebanese side,” one of the sources told Reuters.

Mar 18, 2024 | marietta.edu | Tom Perry

A group of 13 undergraduate and graduate students from Marietta College’s Department of Psychology, accompanied by three faculty members, recently returned from the Annual Research Conference of the Eastern Psychological Association in Philadelphia, where they presented cutting-edge psychological research.