Ankara: Syria's Sharaa to Visit Türkiye on Tuesday

02 February 2025, Saudi Arabia, Riyadh: Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa meets with Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman al-Saud. Photo: -/Saudi Press Agency/dpa
02 February 2025, Saudi Arabia, Riyadh: Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa meets with Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman al-Saud. Photo: -/Saudi Press Agency/dpa
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Ankara: Syria's Sharaa to Visit Türkiye on Tuesday

02 February 2025, Saudi Arabia, Riyadh: Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa meets with Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman al-Saud. Photo: -/Saudi Press Agency/dpa
02 February 2025, Saudi Arabia, Riyadh: Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa meets with Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman al-Saud. Photo: -/Saudi Press Agency/dpa

Syria's newly appointed transitional president, Ahmad al-Sharaa, will visit Ankara on Tuesday at the invitation of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish Presidency said on Monday.
Erdogan and al-Sharaa will discuss the latest developments in Syria, as well as possible joint measures to rebuild the country's economy and achieve lasting stability and security, the presidency's communications director, Fahrettin Altun, said on X.
Altun added the two will also discuss the support Türkiye could provide Syria's transitional government and its people on multilateral platforms.

Al-Sharaa, along with his delegation, concluded his visit to Riyadh on Monday.
He was seen off at King Khalid International Airport by Governor of Riyadh Region Prince Faisal bin Bandar bin Abdulaziz and several other officials.

During his visit to Riyadh, he met with Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Prince Mohammed bin Salman.



UN Agency Says Israel Shuts 4 Schools in East Jerusalem

A boy stands outside the gate of the Kalandia vocational training center (KTC), run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), which was raided by Israeli forces earlier at the Qalandiya camp for Palestinian refugees in the occupied West Bank on February 18, 2025. (AFP)
A boy stands outside the gate of the Kalandia vocational training center (KTC), run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), which was raided by Israeli forces earlier at the Qalandiya camp for Palestinian refugees in the occupied West Bank on February 18, 2025. (AFP)
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UN Agency Says Israel Shuts 4 Schools in East Jerusalem

A boy stands outside the gate of the Kalandia vocational training center (KTC), run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), which was raided by Israeli forces earlier at the Qalandiya camp for Palestinian refugees in the occupied West Bank on February 18, 2025. (AFP)
A boy stands outside the gate of the Kalandia vocational training center (KTC), run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), which was raided by Israeli forces earlier at the Qalandiya camp for Palestinian refugees in the occupied West Bank on February 18, 2025. (AFP)

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees says Israeli forces raided four of its schools in east Jerusalem, ordering their closure.

Israel has severed all ties with the agency, known as UNRWA, and bars it from operating in its territory. It says the agency allowed itself to be infiltrated by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, allegations denied by UN officials.

UNRWA said police entered a training center by force on Tuesday, firing tear gas and sound grenades and ordering its evacuation. It said 350 students and 30 staff were present during the raid on the Qalandiya Training Center.

It said police and city officials ordered the closure of three other schools in east Jerusalem, two of which proceeded with the school day.

Israeli police spokesman Dean Elsdunne said police did not enter the UN buildings and that Jerusalem municipal authorities carried out the closures. He said police were deployed to protect the city workers, using “riot dispersal” means in one case where a crowd threw stones at them outside a UN facility.

Roland Friedrich, UNRWA director for the occupied West Bank, including east Jerusalem, said the raids were an “unacceptable violation of United Nations privileges and immunities,” and a “denial of the right to education for children and trainees.”