All posts tagged "Syria"

President Donald Trump spent much of his four-day trip to the Middle East securing business deals, like the $600 billion investment pledge by the Saudis that Trump is trying to push to $1 trillion.

Among the agreements, "The American chip giants Nvidia and AMD will now be allowed to sell advanced chips to Saudi, Emirati and Qatari customers as those countries seek to become powerhouses in artificial intelligence. One customer is an enormous new A.I. campus in Abu Dhabi whose ambitions rival Stargate, the OpenAI-led venture, in size," The New York Times reported.

The deal was brokered by Trump's top A.I advisers David Sacks and Sriram Krishbnan, according to the Times. The venture capitalists "worked closely with CEOs, including Nvidia's Jensen Huanbg and Sam Altman of OpenAI."...

Iranian Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, who was killed in a rocket attack in Damascus, was buried on Saturday in his birthplace of Isfahan in central Iran. According to the ISNA news agency, thousands of people attended the state-organized funeral of the high-ranking officer in Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The 63-year-old Zahedi, his deputy and five other IRGC officers were killed in an airstrike on the Iranian embassy compound in the Syrian capital Damascus on Monday. Shortly afterwards, Iran's supreme leader blamed arch-enemy Israel for the attack and threatened r......

Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has threatened Israel with retaliation after two Iranian generals were killed in a suspected Israeli attack on the Iranian embassy compound in Damascus. "The malicious regime will be punished by our brave men," he said on Tuesday in a statement a day after the strike. "We will make sure that they repent for this and similar crimes, God willing," he said. His comments came after Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi had already strongly condemned the attack and threatened to respond....

When a newborn baby was rescued alive from beneath the rubble in the rebel-held Syrian town of Jandaris after earthquakes devastated Turkey and Syria in 2023, her news made headlines worldwide. Some 60,000 people were killed after two powerful earthquakes with a magnitude of 7.7 and 7.6 shook south-eastern Turkey and northern Syria on February 6, 2023. The "miracle baby" born under the rubble was her family's sole survivor. Now nearly a year old, she was named Afraa after her deceased mother. When rescuers pulled the baby, whose fragile body was bruised and covered with dust, from the rubble o......

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani on Sunday visited neighbouring Syria, marking a growing Arab normalization with the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The official visit was the first by an Iraqi premier to war-torn Syria in more than a decade. Al-Sudani met al-Assad, who said the visit would mark a “practical leap” in ties between the two countries. In mid-2014, the Islamic State extremist organization overran large swathes of northern Iraq. Shortly thereafter, the hardline jihadists proclaimed a caliphate, which also included the regions they controlled in Syria. Bu......

By Aidan Lewis and Sarah El Safty CAIRO (Reuters) -The Arab League readmitted Syria after more than a decade of suspension on Sunday, consolidating a regional push to normalise ties with President Bashar al-Assad. The decision said Syria could resume its participation in Arab League meetings immediately, while calling for a resolution of the crisis resulting from Syria's civil war, including the flight of refugees to neighbouring countries and drug smuggling across the region. While Arab states including the United Arab Emirates have pushed for Syria and Assad's rehabilitation, others, includi......