For today, links to six reports from the Cradle, Reuters, the Associated Press and Middle East Monitor; other reports or headlines are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (GAZA, MEDIA and UKRAINE entries for this date are HERE, HERE and HERE, or scroll down. SYRIA 3-13-25 entry is HERE, or scroll down.) — MCM

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FROM MARCH 14  Syrian FM urges Iraq to reopen border in first visit since armed coup. From the Cradle. Syria’s de facto Foreign Minister, Asaad al-Shibani, arrived in Baghdad on 14 March for his first official visit to Iraq since the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad. READ MORE . . .  Click HERE for report from Reuters.

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Syria’s government announces a new Constitution even as it struggles to unite the country. Reported by Jane Arraf and Scott Simon | NPR  Just over three months since the fall of the Assad regime, Syria’s leaders are struggling to build a new, unified country. Click HERE to listen and, later, read.

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FROM MARCH 14  Dozens of Syrian Druze make a rare visit to Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, by Alon Bernstein | AP  MAJDAL SHAMS, Golan Heights — Dozens of clerics and others from Syria’s minority Druze community crossed into the Israeli-controlled side of the Golan Heights Friday for the first time in decades. READ MORE . . .  Click HERE for report from Reuters.

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FROM MARCH 14  The goals of Israel’s ongoing aggression against Syria, by Aziz Mustafa | Middle East Monitor  Israel’s aggressive operations against Syria continue by air and on the ground suggest that its approach to Syria goes beyond mere military strikes but rather aims . . . READ MORE . . .

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