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      Lizzie Porter

      Lizzie Porter

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      Istanbul
      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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      Weapons collected as part of the continuing Syrian disarmament process, in Hama. Lizzie Porter / The National
      Play02:21
      Inside a Syrian 'reconciliation centre' handling soldiers of fallen Assad regime

      Hundreds of former soldiers and state employees are processed here by the country's new leadership

      MENADecember 20, 2024
      Hassan Al Alloush on a deserted street in the eastern half of Aleppo, Syria's main industrial city. Lizzie Porter / The National
      Battered and neglected eastern Aleppo struggles to find hope after Assad's fall

      Residents face rampant crime, poverty and lack of services in area retaken from rebels by regime forces in 2016

      MENADecember 19, 2024
      Aleppo airport, damaged during fighting, has reopened, though sanctions hinder its full capacity. Lizzie Porter / The National
      Play01:27
      First flight since fall of Assad lands in Aleppo after departing from Damascus

      Airport officials call for sanctions to be lifted to restore aviation sector

      MENADecember 18, 2024
      Aleppo is bustling 10 days after Bashar Al Assad's regime fell. Lizzie Porter / The National
      Play01:27
      Bloodied Aleppo strives to heal wounds of Syria's old regime

      Nation's industrial capital feels alive two weeks after it was taken over by rebels

      MENADecember 18, 2024
      Turkey has appointed an interim charge d'affaires to Syria as it reopens its embassy in Damascus. AFP
      Turkey appoints envoy to Damascus after 12-year diplomatic freeze

      Ankara follows Doha to announce the reopening of its embassy in Syria

      MENADecember 13, 2024
      The flag-draped casket of Syrian activist Mazen Al-Hamad during his funeral in Damascus. Getty Images
      Syrian activist Mazen Al-Hamada buried in Damascus

      Body of political activist who returned from Europe in 2020 was found bearing marks of torture

      MENADecember 12, 2024
      A Syrian migrant woman waits with her three children at Cilvegozu border gate to cross into Syria, in Hatay province, Turkey. Reuters
      Play01:33
      Syrian refugees at Turkey's border elated to return home

      After more than a decade, hundreds of Syrian refugees gathered at the Cilvegozu border crossing to resume their old lives

      MENADecember 11, 2024
      Members of the Syrian National Army patrolling Syria's Tal Abyad district after it was cleared of Kurdish militias in Turkey's Operation Peace Spring offensive in October 2019. Getty Images
      Syrian rebels advance on Kurds in post-Assad struggle for control

      Push by Turkish-backed groups comes amid chaos of transition from more than 50 years of Assad family rule

      MENADecember 10, 2024
      Mohamed Al Bashir, who heads HTS's Salvation Government in Idlib, will now form a new government in Syria. AFP
      HTS appoints Mohammed Al Bashir to form new Syrian government

      Al Bashir will lead transitional administration in Damascus after rebels ousted long-time dictator Bashar Al Assad

      MENADecember 09, 2024
      People and fighters gather at the Umayyad Mosque on Sunday, December 8 after Islamist-led insurgents declared that they had taken the Syrian capital and President Bashar Al Assad had fled. AFP
      Syria's rebel coalition likely to fall back on UN-backed political transition plan

      New rulers say they want leadership based on 2015 resolution

      MENADecember 09, 2024
      Members of the Popular Mobilisation Forces and Iraqi soldiers guard at the country's border with Syria. Iran-backed militants are reported to use Syria as conduit to move supplies into Iraq. AFP
      ISIS makes moves in desert as groups compete for control in eastern Syria

      Kurdish-led groups and extremist fighters have seized opportunity to expand spheres of control

      MENADecember 06, 2024
      A Syrian anti government fighter fires his rifle into the air in the streets of the west-central city of Hama on December 5, 2024. AFP
      Rebels take Hama pushing army out of key Syrian city

      Strategic city fell in 48 hours despite Russian air support for the army

      NewsDecember 05, 2024
      Armed men in Aleppo after rebel forces took control of the city. EPA
      Syrian opposition considering plan to establish joint administration

      Deputy Commander of the Levant Front tells The National democracy is the ultimate goal

      MENADecember 04, 2024
      Anti-government fighters take position at the Kweyris military airfield in the eastern part of Aleppo province. AFP
      Play02:07
      Syria rebel offensive: what might happen next?

      President Bashar Al Assad faces one of the greatest threats to his rule, and next steps in the conflict remain unclear

      MENADecember 04, 2024
      Bashar Al Assad is said to have resisted all pressure - even from staunch ally Russia - to open up dialogue and accept a political solution to the civil war. Reuters / EPA
      Syria's rebel offensive 'fuelled by diplomatic dead end'

      Failure of political transition paved way for assault after year of stalemate

      MENADecember 03, 2024
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