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Cyprus to Reopen Embassy in Damascus

People walk by election campaign billboards depicting Syrian president Bashar Assad in the capital Damascus, on May 25, 2021. (AFP)
People walk by election campaign billboards depicting Syrian president Bashar Assad in the capital Damascus, on May 25, 2021. (AFP)
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Cyprus to Reopen Embassy in Damascus

People walk by election campaign billboards depicting Syrian president Bashar Assad in the capital Damascus, on May 25, 2021. (AFP)
People walk by election campaign billboards depicting Syrian president Bashar Assad in the capital Damascus, on May 25, 2021. (AFP)

The Cypriot, Greek and Hungarian embassies will resume their operation in Syria.

The Syrian Bar Association signed a contract with the Chargé d’Affaires of the Cypriot Embassy in Syria, Sivak Avedissian, to rent a new property for the embassy in Damascus.

The lease contract was signed by the Lawyers’ Retirement Treasury Foundation in Syria, represented by President of the Bar Firas Fares, and Avedisian.

The embassy will lease the Treasury Foundation’s property No. 3161, located in Abu Rummaneh in western Damascus.

All European Union countries, except the Czech Republic, closed their embassies in Syria following the decade-long conflict.

The EU had announced that the May 26 presidential elections were neither “free nor fair” and decided to renew sanctions against 353 Syrian entities and figures.

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Israeli Drone Strike in Lebanon’s Sidon Kills Hamas Member

Rescue workers inspect a damaged car after an Israeli strike, in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, early Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
Rescue workers inspect a damaged car after an Israeli strike, in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, early Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
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Israeli Drone Strike in Lebanon’s Sidon Kills Hamas Member

Rescue workers inspect a damaged car after an Israeli strike, in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, early Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
Rescue workers inspect a damaged car after an Israeli strike, in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, early Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

An Israeli drone strike on a car in southern Lebanon killed one person early Wednesday, Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported.
Security officials at the scene told The Associated Press that the man killed in the port city of Sidon was a member of the Palestinian Hamas group.
Over the past 19 months, Israel’s military has targeted members of Hamas in Lebanon where the Palestinian group has a military presence.
The group has also carried out rocket attacks from Lebanon since the Israel-Hamas war began on Oct. 7, 2023, and in recent weeks Lebanese authorities detained several men linked to Hamas on suspicion of firing rockets toward Israel.
Lebanese authorities warned Hamas last week that it would face the “harshest measures” if it carried out any attacks from Lebanon.