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Syriac Maronite priest Samir Daou found murdered inside his home after contact was lost with him

Syriac Maronite priest Samir Daou, a native of Ain Jrain and pastor of the parishes of Hsoun and Ferhet in Jbeil District, ...
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Arab parties may have emerged as kingmakers in Israel, but does the opposition want them at the coronation?

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political bloc held a narrow lead Wednesday as votes from the previous day’s ...
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Iraqi Prime Minister visits Daramsuq (Damascus) amid dispute with Arba’ilo (Erbil) over Shigur (Sinjar) arrangements

Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi departed for Daramsuq (Damascus) at the head of a high-level delegation to meet with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa and discuss ways to strengthen bilateral ...
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Tight race in Israeli elections. Likud-led bloc leads with 56 seats, short of a decisive majority in the Knesset

Initial results from yesterday’s Israeli elections show a very close race between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing bloc and the opposition bloc led by Yashar party leader Gadi Eisenkot.
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The Louaize Fenqitho and an ancient Syriac Maronite prayer for Lebanon

Free Thinker, poet, essayist. Specialized in Arabic linguistics & analytical philosophy Pre-reform Maronite liturgical manuscripts, i.e. dating to before the sixteenth century, are rare. When one is ...
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Syriac athlete Noël Zeren: from a love of speed to a powerchair football world crown with France

PARIS – France’s triumph in the 2026 Powerchair Football World Cup was not merely another sporting victory, but a historic milestone in a sport that gives people with disabilities the chance to ...
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Syriac Catholic Patriarch visits southeastern Turkey for first time in 30 years, eight children receive First Communion

Syriac Catholic Patriarch Ignatius Joseph III Younan visited Istanbul and the Tur Abdin region in southeastern Turkey last week, meeting with Church leaders and community members and celebrating the ...
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Displaced Kurdish families attacked upon returning to Tel Abyad, vehicles burned

Displaced families returning to Tel Abyad were subjected to attacks involving beatings with sticks, stone-throwing, gunfire, vandalism, and the burning of vehicles, while threats were made to prevent ...
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Jordan arrests three perpetrators in deadly terrorist Church attack in Karak

Jordanian authorities have arrested three perpetrators accused of carrying out a deadly terrorist attack on the Rûm Orthodox Church of St. George in the village of Hammoud, in Karak Governorate, that ...
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Syria’s school curriculum faces renewed scrutiny over Islamic references, position of women and civic education

The removal of a sculpture depicting the ancient Bethnahrinian (Mesopotamian) singer Ornina, the disappearance of lessons on citizenship and democratic participation, and the alteration of ...
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Baghdad opens first-ever Jewish Museum in former Shamash Jewish Secondary School

Jewish presence in Iraq was neither limited nor marginal during the first half of the twentieth century. Jews were actively involved in Iraqi society in religious, cultural, educational and commercial ...
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Iraq begins integrating Sinjar Resistance Units into federal forces

Iraq began transferring strategic military positions on Mount Shigur (Sinjar) to federal forces on 26 October, as the Sinjar Resistance Units (YBS) agreed to end their independent military structure ...