Coming up this week Today is the one-year anniversary of the fall of Bashar al Assad in Syria. Syrians generally seem cautiously optimistic about the direction their country is taking under rebel-cu …

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Gaza Israel announced plans to reopen Gaza's border crossing at Rafah to one-way traffic leaving the strip, (half) fulfilling a condition Israel agreed to in its October ceasefire deal with Hamas. T …

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Ukraine U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met with Pres. Putin for almost five hours yesterday to discuss the 19-point U.S. proposal for ending the war in Ukraine, which was watered down f …

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Ukraine Russia claimed its troops have captured Pokrovsk after months of heavy fighting over the now-ruined transport hub.  However, Ukraine disputed Russia's claims as "loud statements" design …

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Coming up this week Honduras voted for president yesterday. Pres. Trump endorsed Nasry “Tito” Asfura of the National Party, who has a narrow lead in early vote counts. The U.S. assu …

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Ukraine U.S. and UK officials aligned on a new, 19-point ceasefire proposal that tempers some of the pro-Russia bias that analysts called out in the original, 28-point plan Pres. Trump proposed. U.S …

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