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      Lizzie Porter

      Lizzie Porter

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      Lizzie Porter is The National's Istanbul correspondent. She has been a foreign correspondent for nearly a decade, and was previously based in Beirut and Baghdad. She covers diplomacy, politics, conflicts and crises in Turkey and across the Middle East, and has won multiple awards for her reporting on topics ranging from missing persons in Iraq to the region's climate crises. A native English speaker, she also speaks fluent French, Arabic and Farsi. Her Turkish is improving.
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      Children wave goodbye to their neighbours as a lorry prepares to leave Rukban camp in eastern Syria. Matt Kynaston for The National.
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      Syrians trickle out of Rukban desert camp with memories to forget

      Hundreds of people remain there after nearly a decade of hardship, trapped by lack of money for transport or somewhere else to live

      MENAJanuary 30, 2025
      Mohammed Fares is a Palmyra resident who has been trying to keep track of looting across the Unesco World Heritage site. Matt Kynaston / The National
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      Syrians return to Palmyra amid hopes ancient city can attract tourists once again

      ISIS blew up parts of the historic site when they took over the area in 2015

      MENAJanuary 28, 2025
      East Jerusalem settlement expansion shorthand gif demolitions
      Special reportHow Israel is accelerating illegal settlements in Jerusalem during Gaza war

      Dozens of homes are under threat of demolition as Israeli settlers seek to take over Palestinian neighbourhoods

      MENAJanuary 24, 2025
      Syrian Free Army commander Col Salem Turki Al Antri
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      InterviewEnd to US support in Syria ‘would be nightmare’ in ISIS fight

      Syrian Free Army leader tells The National American technological superiority is key to tackling the extremist group

      MENAJanuary 23, 2025
      Mutarad Al Hilal Al Kouma next to the grave of his uncle, Abdo Ali, who was killed by an Israeli air strike. Matt Kynaston / The National
      'We want them to leave our country': Syrians fear Israeli land grab in military advance

      As Gaza ceasefire begins, Israeli build-up in Quneitra causes fears of permanent presence, residents say

      MENAJanuary 20, 2025
      Earlier this year, the US, by far the biggest contributor to UNRWA, announced it was halting its funding to the organisation, which it labelled 'irredeemably flawed'. AFP
      Israel to move Palestinian pupils to Israeli-approved curriculum

      The move is part of a wider effort to replace learning programme in Jerusalem

      MENAJanuary 13, 2025
      Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said his country's presence in Syria 'will have to evolve'. AFP
      Turkey reviewing its Syria presence, foreign minister says

      Turkish troop and civilian presence in northern Syria may change following fall of Assad regime

      MENAJanuary 10, 2025
      HTS-aligned forces are heading towards Tishreen Dam on the Euphrates. Reuters
      HTS-backed forces battling Kurdish militia for control of two key dams in Syria

      SDF has launched counter-offensive to stem Turkish-backed advance in the area, the source of Syria's oil and gas production

      MENAJanuary 09, 2025
      Fabric colour palettes and designs at Kutnia are inspired by the traditional architecture and spice markets of the city of Gaziantep. Lizzie Porter / The National
      Postcard from GaziantepThe company weaving new life into Ottoman fabric

      Kutnu has been produced in the south-eastern Turkish city for decades - but does the 'palace cloth' that was once used to make sultans' kaftans have a future?

      MENAJanuary 03, 2025
      Displaced Syrians working in a junkyard in the town of Batabo, between Idlib and Aleppo provinces in north-west Syria, in 2021. Reuters
      Special reportAssad regime bombed Aleppo for years — then profited from its scrap metal

      Business was run by elite army unit, say locals, amid concerns over new government tackling corruption

      MENAJanuary 01, 2025
      A staircase inside the Palestine Branch of Syria's Military Intelligence Directorate in Damascus, days after its inmates were freed by rebels who toppled former president Bashar Al Assad. AFP
      Survivors reveal the horror of ‘disappearing’ into Assad’s detention network

      More than 100,000 people held in former Syrian regime's intelligence branches and detention centres are still missing

      MENAJanuary 01, 2025
      People pose for photos in front of a Christmas tree and nativity scene in the Bab Touma neighbourhood of Damascus on Christmas Eve. AP Photo
      First Christmas in a free Syria a litmus test for country's new administration

      Syrian Christians say they are being cautiously optimistic about the future

      MENADecember 25, 2024
      Hayat Tahrir Al Sham leader Ahmad Al Shara, centre, speaks at a meeting of Syrian armed opposition groups to discuss their dissolution and merger under the ministry of defence
      Syrian factions agree to disband and join defence ministry

      Syria's de facto leader Ahmad Al Shara says all weapons, including those held by Kurdish-led forces, will come under state control

      MENADecember 24, 2024
      Lorries carrying bodies arrived daily at the Tell Al Nasser cemetery off the motorway between Homs and Hama. Lizzie Porter / the National
      Special reportGravediggers tell a story of tortured souls in Syria

      Cemetery officials recount the thousands of bodies they administered to bearing the scars of Assad’s brutal regime

      MENADecember 24, 2024
      The training base was part of what Syrian rebels called Hezbollah’s “security square”, in Al Qusayr on the Lebanon-Syria border. Photo: Lizzie Porter / The National
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      ExclusiveInside the abandoned Hezbollah training base in Syria

      Iran-backed militia used town to move fighters and weapons, rebels and residents say

      MENADecember 21, 2024
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