The Syrian government released a number of detainees affiliated with the Islamist-oriented Hizb ut-Tahrir party who had been imprisoned in Idlib (northwestern Syria) on Monday, February 16. Abdo al-Dali, a member of the media office of Hizb ut-Tahrir, Wilayah Syria, confirmed to Enab Baladi that several party members detained in …

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Saturday gave the keynote speech at the Munich Security Conference, assuring European allies that the transatlantic relationship remains intact, if strained. “Our destiny will always be intertwined with yours,” Rubio said. “The end of the transatlantic era is neither our goal or our wish,” …

European leaders called Friday for a reset in relations with the United States as they met at a top security conference where US President Donald Trump’s potshots at traditional transatlantic ties loomed large. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz urged “a new transatlantic partnership” and French President Emmanuel Macron called for “a …

When United States President Donald Trump dispatched special forces into Caracas to kidnap Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, the firefights and airstrikes raining down killed dozens of people. Trump soon announced that the US would “run” Venezuela and take control of its oil industry, claiming that …

The 162-article draft “constitution,” however, shows that, if and when the Palestinians have a state of their own, it would actually not be different from the two mini-states they have had for the past two decades: the Hamas regime in the Gaza Strip and the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the …

Europe’s policy of subservience to the Trump administration has failed. For Washington to take the EU seriously, its leaders now need to combine engagement with robust pushback. After a year of Donald Trump’s second U.S. presidency, the EU is still in a state of shock. So far, European leaders have …

A source inside the municipality of Akhtarin district, in the northern countryside of Aleppo, confirmed to Enab Baladi the transfer of residents of the “Al-Hol” camp in the countryside of Al-Hasakah, which includes the families of the “Islamic State” organization. The source said that the transfer is likely to be …

Toplines The Kremlin continues to discuss future elections in Ukraine to advance its false claim that the current Ukrainian government is illegitimate and insists on means of controlling Ukraine’s politics. In an interview with Kremlin newswire TASS on February 15, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin repeated the debunked claim …

The rift between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has erupted beyond subtle divergences into a more overt and consequential rivalry. While it started with an emerging proxy war over southern Yemen, it has now shifted to the Horn of Africa. But while efforts to smooth their differences …