For now, links to reports from the Cradle and the Associated Press; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (SYRIA 4–24-25 is HERE, or scroll down.  GAZA and UKRAINE entries for this date, so far, are HERE and HERE, or scroll up.) — MCM

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Syria’s interim president ‘interested’ in joining Abraham Accords. From the Cradle. The chairman of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee and the U.S. Armed Services Committee, Congressman Cory Mills, said on Thursday that Syria’s interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa informed him of Damascus’s openness to normalizing relations with Israel. READ MORE . . .

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Syria’s new foreign minister will appear at the UN in his first U.S. visit, by Abby Sewell | AP  BEIRUT — Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shibani raised his country’s new flag at U.N. headquarters in New York today where he was set to attend a U.N. Security Council briefing, the first public appearance by a high-ranking Syrian government official in the United States since the fall of former President Bashar Assad . . . READ MORE . . .

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FROM APRIL 23  Syria’s stolen daughters: The HTS campaign to enslave Alawite women. From the Cradle. Since December, when the former Al-Qaeda affiliate, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham toppled the government of Bashar al-Assad, Syria has witnessed a chilling wave of mysterious kidnappings of young women, predominantly from the Alawite community. Evidence continues to emerge  . . . READ MORE . . .

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