Link to article: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g9vyz747eo Today, February 8, 2025, as part of an ongoing ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, Hamas released 3 hostages and Israel released 183 Palestinian prisoners. The exchange of the hostages was very public where they were on stage with signed paperwork and paraded past filming crowds. Both the hostages and prisoners were regarded as being in… Read more »
Link to article: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/08/thousands-of-syrians-in-limbo-as-uk-home-office-freezes-asylum-claims The UK’s Home Office has put a pause for an indeterminate amount of time on asylum seeker applications from Syria. This pause began on December 9, but is continuing now and remains unsure for many. There are many different reasons why Syrians have left including escaping Assad’s previous regime and those who were aligned with Assad… Read more »
Link to article: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjexp347yxlo On Thursday, President Donald Trump recently posted on his Truth Social platform that there will be a plan put into action about evacuating Gaza and then having Gaza be turned over to the US and reconstructed. It is still up in the air about whether this plan can and/or will be put into action, but there… Read more »
Link to article: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/4/biden-notifies-us-congress-of-planned-8bn-arms-sales-to-israel-reports On January 3, 2025, the foreign affairs committees of the House of Representatives and the Senate were notified of an upcoming move by the Biden administration to give $8 billion worth of arms in a sale to Israel as an ally of the US. Some of these weapons are to be given soon, but others are… Read more »
Link to article: https://www.reuters.com/world/syrias-de-facto-leader-hosts-ukraines-foreign-minister-sana-says-2024-12-30/ On December 30, 2024, Syria’s new foreign minister Asaad Hassan al-Shibani met with his Ukrainian counterpart Andrii Sybiha to discuss new ties between the two countries. Recently, as a result of the 14 year civil war in Syria, its old ruler Bashar al-Assad has been ousted and sought asylum in Russia because they had been close… Read more »
Link to article: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c86wd84y7jyo On Friday, December 27, 2024, the last functioning hospital in Gaza, Kamal Adwan was seized by Israeli forces. This comes along with the recent attack of two other hospitals in Gaza. The Israeli military stated that the hospital was being used as a Hamas command center. The military proceeded to kill 20 perceived terrorists, detained 240… Read more »