Edgware Road is literally London’s Chinatown for Arabs and has been for decades.
Also, Diwan Al Yemen makes an unreal Mandi, it will change your life.
Tell me you’re not a Londoner without telling me you’re not a Londoner
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BREAKING: US Senator Chris Murphy hospitalized following a stroke, per his office.
This comes just days after being briefed on highly classified military planning on Iran to restart the war after the midterms, where he called Trump's plan "insane."
"I will just say this: their plan is insane. It will lead to devastating escalation and the likely destruction of our commitment to the rule of law," he said four days ago.
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3 Syrians killed by the IDF this month, 10 military bases, multiple checkpoints, 1160 hectares of seized land. Israel is steadily entrenching its occupation of southern Syria, normalising territorial expansion through military force while evading the legal/political consequences.
Hi, psychiatrist here! I’m actually researching captagon in Syria.
Most captagon circulating in Syria and the Middle East from Assad’s era and his remnants today does not contain the active ingredient, fenethylline. It’s more often than not a cocktail of speed, caffeine and meth.
Assad was not making captagon and smuggling it into The Gulf and the EU to help children with ADHD get better grades. I promise you that.
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A resident who recently returned to #Saraqeb found an archaeological treasure looted by pro-Regime fighters.
Saraqeb is just few km from a major Syrian archaeological site, Ebla - but the artifacts don't appear to originate from there, as most of Ebla's remains date to the Bronze Age.
The collection of 40 artifacts found by a resident & stockpiled in his house, mostly consists of items dating to Roman & Byzantine eras.
Some can be identified: an inscribed stele, sculpted column bases, capitals & more surprisingly equipment that appears to have belonged to a bakery: 4 basalt grain mills (pistrinae) - typically operated by animals.
It remains unknown how these artifacts were collected - during illegal excavations or while digging tunnels under the town, as documented after Assad's fall.
The capture of Saraqeb on 29th November 2024 happened so quickly that pro-Assad forces couldn't take the artifacts with them.
The resident handed over all 40 artifacts to the local authorities, who then transferred them to #Idlib Antiquities Department.
This exceptional case highlights both the immense damage inflicted on Syrian heritage by the war but also the remarkable integrity of some individuals - over the past months, several people returning to their homes handed over artifacts they safeguarded for years.
ALT Photo courtesy of Idlib Antiquities Directorate.
Assadist hacker group “Syrian Electronic Army” woke up from its 11 year coma to thank the USA for “humanely” arresting their member Ahmad Omar Agha.
The irony is that their deposed refugee deity Assad’s regime would have disappeared him in the dungeons of Sednaya and sold videos of his horrific torture as snuff videos on the dark web.
This Assadist loser once called me a “Wahhabi cannibal” and threatened to dox my family in Syria. I can’t believe he had the stock market on its knees 😩😂😭
Syria in the Mecca Alliance would make Netanyahu jump up and down like Donkey Kong in the 1981 Atari 2600 game.
Turkish boots in Syria, Saudi Arabia’s resources and nuclear power Pakistan’s assurances would genuinely ruin Mossad’s day, every day.
Syria Weighs Joining Mecca Defense Alliance, Foreign Minister Says
Syria is considering joining the Mecca Defense Alliance, a NATO-style pact linking Türkiye, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani says.
No formal application or final decision has been announced.
clashreport.com/world/articl…
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Syria Weighs Joining Mecca Defense Alliance, Foreign Minister Says
Syria is considering joining the Mecca Defense Alliance, a NATO-style pact linking Türkiye, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani says.
No formal application or final decision has been announced.
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To the Jordanian government’s merit, at least they deleted their statement. The other neighbours next door would have doubled down and called the kids on Syrian territory Khamas
Again, in less than a week, Jordanian border guards opened fire on Syrian kids inside Syrian territory while they were in their families' farms.
No kid got hurt, but they were hit with a hail of gunfire that forced the Syrian internal security forces and the Syrian border guards to step in, stop the shooting, and secure the kids.
Jordan put out a statement saying they "foiled infiltration attempts" then walked it back and deleted it.
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Again, in less than a week, Jordanian border guards opened fire on Syrian kids inside Syrian territory while they were in their families' farms.
No kid got hurt, but they were hit with a hail of gunfire that forced the Syrian internal security forces and the Syrian border guards to step in, stop the shooting, and secure the kids.
Jordan put out a statement saying they "foiled infiltration attempts" then walked it back and deleted it.
🔹ماذا حدث على الحدود السورية - الأردنية؟ ولماذا حذفت القوات المسلحة الأردنية بيانها؟
- حرس الحدود الأردني أطلق النار باتجاه مجموعة من الأطفال والفتيان كانوا داخل الأراضي السورية قرب الشريط الحدودي جنوب درعا، دون أن يُصاب أحد منهم.
- وكان الأطفال، ولا تتجاوز أعمار معظمهم 15 عاماً، يلعبون قرب مزارع عائلاتهم المحاذية للحدود. وتقول مصادر محلية إن عناصر حرس الحدود الأردني ظنّوهم مجموعة مسلّحة تحاول التسلّل، ففتحوا عليهم نيراناً كثيفة.
- تدخّلت قوى الأمن الداخلي وحرس الحدود السوري لوقف إطلاق النار، ونقلت الأطفال إلى منطقة آمنة وأعادتهم إلى ذويهم سالمين.
بيان قوات المسلحة الأردنية :
- مجموعة مسلّحة.❌
- محاولة لاجتياز الحدود.❌
- حاولت المجموعة التسلّل "تحت غطاء ناري كثيف" واشتبكت مع القوات الأردنية.❌
- خسائر بشرية عديدة بصفوف المجموعات المسلحة❌
- فرّ الباقون نحو العمق السوري. ❌
#أطفالنا_ليسوا_إرهاباً
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On the [impressively newly resurfaced] #Damascus Airport road, @Mastercard is now advertising its services to the #Syria market.
Gradually, slowly, #Syria's economy is entering the 21st century following the removal of U.S. sanctions.
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Hit up Abu Omar if he still lives there. He is a fan of all vintage things. He had the sickest old car collection.
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In Rebel-held Aleppo (Shaar district) Abu Omar clings to his collection of old cars. #Syria
youtu.be/h0VNg4aoJzo
Update:
after a week of research on the ground, There isn’t a single record store in all of Aleppo.
A shopkeeper in Aziziyeh explained to me that during the revolution, all the vinyl records were sold to dealers in Beirut.
