For today, links to four reports: from Middle East Eye, the Associated Press, and Reuters; others or at least headlines are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (IRAN, WEST BANK, LEBANON, GAZA and UKRAINE entries for this date are HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE, or scroll up or down.  SYRIA 3-16-25 entry is HERE, or scroll down.) — MCM

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HTS-led Syrian forces clash with Lebanese army on border. From the Cradle. Intense clashes erupted on the Syrian–Lebanese border late on Sunday after Syrian military forces led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham carried out heavy shelling and launched rockets on Lebanese border towns. READ MORE . . .  Click HERE for report from AP.

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Syria’s new rulers face likely aid drop at EU conference, by Amina Ismail | Reuters  BRUSSELS — The interim government in Damascus were to take part today in a conference to gather aid pledges for Syria, facing the prospect of diminishing assistance as it struggles with humanitarian and security problems after the fall of Bashar al-Assad. READ MORE . . .

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FROM MARCH 16  Families of Syrians who disappeared during its civil war say the search must go on, by Kareem Chehayeb and Ghaith Alsayed | AP  DARAA, Syria — Family members of the estimated 130,000 Syrians who disappeared in the country’s 14-year civil war gathered here on Sunday to urge the newly installed interim government to not give up on efforts to find them. READ MORE . . .

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