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On the second day of Lebanon’s Army deploying into the “pilot zone” villages in the country’s south, officials are trying to make much of this being the beginning of an end to the Israeli military occupation of the entire country, while from Israel’s perspective, the signs are that very little has changed. Israeli artillery attacks […]

Russia Now Main Supplier Of Oil To Post-Assad Syria, Despite Pivot To West Via The Cradle Russia has become Syria's leading supplier of oil since the collapse of former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s government and the rise to power of former Al-Qaeda chief Ahmad al-Sharaa, according to Reuters.  Shipments of Russian oil have risen by 75 percent this year to roughly 60,000 barrels per day (bpd), based on Reuters calculations using official data and vessel tracking from LSEG, MarineTraffic, and Shipnext. Getty Images While these volumes account for only a small fraction of Russia’s total global oil...