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Turkish Ministry of Interior Specifies Criteria for the Naturalisation of Syrians

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 14, 2016 | World

Discussions about granting citizenship to Syrian refugees, a decision which the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on the 2nd of July, continued yesterday. The Minister of Interior Efkan Ala announced that Turkey will speed up the process to grant...

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A Syrian refugee holds onto his daughter as he waits to cross into Turkey at Akcakale border gate in Sanliurfa province, Turkey, June 15, 2015, Reuters

Syrian Refugees Caught in the Poverty Trap

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jul 5, 2016 | Middle East

Increasing numbers of Syrian refugees in the Middle East are falling into deeper debt and facing grinding poverty, partly as a result of exhausting their savings with shortages of essential aid worsening their plight, U.N. agencies and local governments said on...

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Putin and Lavrov Discuss the Syrian Crisis With Ban Ki-moon and de Mistura

by Taha Abed alWahed | Jun 17, 2016 | World

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the UN envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura separately yesterday, and the settlement of the Syrian crisis was discussed. At the outset of the meeting which...

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Damascus Courts Washington over Palmyra and Deir Ez-Zor is on the Horizon

by Heba El Koudsy | Mar 29, 2016 | Latest News, Middle East

The Syrian regime has started to directly court the United States, and the head of its negotiating delegation in Geneva Bashar Al-Jaafari announced that the regime “does not oppose the creation of an international coalition to fight terrorism”. He pointed out that...

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From right to left: the foreign ministers of Britain, Italy and America during their meeting in Paris yesterday (AFP)

Western Support for the Syrian opposition on the Eve of Geneva Talks

by Michel Abu Najm | Mar 14, 2016 | Latest News, Middle East

The foreign ministers of five western and EU countries adopted the opposition’s approach and warned Bashar Al-Assad’s regime against trying to hinder upcoming negotiations. They did this during their meeting in Paris yesterday where they discussed the Syrian...