Syria News Wire

An earthquake measuring 4.6 has struck Aleppo, although there are no reports of injuries or any damage.
It happened at 7.30 this morning. With a number of badly constructed buildings in the city, it is very lucky that no-one was hurt, and no properties collapsed.
Ahmad was the first to mention the quake on Twitter – a [...]

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These are the live updates I posted to Twitter. It is in reverse order (so the start of the speech is at the bottom of the page). A full analysis of the speech follows soon.

#nasrallahspeech we are in a new era, must deal with results
#nasrallahspeech i call on March 14 to be clear with each [...]

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Hasan Nasrallah will be speaking at 8.30pm Beirut time (1730 GMT) in the wake of his allies’ election defeat. I’ll cover it live, with updates here.

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Syria has a new Defence Minister. Ali Habib replaces Hassan Turkmani.
Habib was formerly the chief of the army general staff.

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Go to twitter.com/syrianews for my live coverage (in English) of Nasrallah’s speech now.

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More follows…

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The UN Special Tribunal has RELEASED all four Lebanese suspects in the Hariri killing “at once”.
It has also ruled that they should be protected, to ensure they come to no harm.
Although they could still be indicted at a later date, this essentially clears Syria and renders the UN Special Tribunal meaningless.
The four men have been held without [...]

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Details follow…

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