Syria rebels: "To the displaced all over the world, free Syria awaits you."
Timour Azhari
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Timour Azhari
@timourazhari
Chief Saudi Correspondent for Reuters also reporting on wider Middle East. Email me: [email protected]
Joined August 2012
- NEW — Syrians are finally enjoying the sweet taste of freedom at famous Damascus ice cream parlor Bakdash Rebels and refugees were unable to savor the stretchy, mastic-infused Arabic gelato for years due to war. They say it now tastes better than ever. 🧵
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- Syrian State TV is no joke currently airing a documentary that mentioned how Damascus fell to the Abbasids in 750AD without putting up a fight
- Protests in parts of #Lebanon again tonight as the currency slides towards uncharted territory & reforms remain stalled with the same old cynical politics at play.
- Really distressing situation in Beirut. Hundreds of people sitting in parks, in Martyrs square, in the streets, smoking and coaxing children to sleep and waiting and wondering what the hell is going to happen next.
- Lebanon’s new President Joseph Aoun pledges that only the state will have weapons — and parliament bursts into its longest applause of the day while Hezbollah MPs sit still.
- We are now watching Israel strike a building housing international media in Gaza including Al Jazeera and the Associated Press. Surreal.
- First reported by @rayajalabi & @SarahDadouch in the FT — here’s my full interview with the young new de-facto governor of Damascus. UAE-raised and speaking in near-perfect English, he outlines how Syria’s Islamist rebels plan to raise wages, improve services and remake a state
00:00 - BREAKING - 10 Lebanese firefighters killed in an Israeli strike on a municipal building in Bint Jbeil. — Lebanese health ministry, which says this is a “massacre” and war crime. This is an initial toll.
