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Raya Jalabi

Middle East correspondent

Raya Jalabi is the FT's Middle East correspondent, covering Iraq, Syria and Lebanon from her base in Beirut. Before joining the FT in 2022, she covered Saudi Arabia and Iraq for Reuters, and was a news editor and reporter at The Guardian in New York.
Email Raya Jalabi @rayajalabi  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)
  • Tuesday, 14 January, 2025
    FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
    A power shift in Lebanon

    International Court of Justice head named Lebanon’s new prime minister, in blow for Hizbollah

  • Monday, 13 January, 2025
    Lebanon
    Nawaf Salam named as Lebanon’s new prime minister

    International Court of Justice head secures support of majority of MPs in blow for Hizbollah militant group

    Nawaf Salam listens to a hearing at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands
  • Monday, 13 January, 2025
    Middle East war
    Israel steps up Lebanon strikes ahead of withdrawal deadline

    Military launches barrage of attacks on what it calls Hizbollah targets as both sides allege ceasefire violations

    Israeli military forces operate near Israel’s border with Lebanon, in northern Israel
  • Wednesday, 8 January, 2025
    Lebanon
    Lebanon prepares for presidential vote in test of Hizbollah’s power

    Parliamentary election follows two years of political deadlock blamed on militant group now weakened by war with Israel

    Lebanese army chief Joseph Aoun at a meeting with US special envoy Amos Hochstein
  • Sunday, 29 December, 2024
    News in-depthSyrian crisis
    Investigators race to secure evidence of atrocities by Syria’s Assad regime

    Scattered bodies and records of executions and other crimes laid bare in chaotic aftermath of rebel takeover

    People look through documents at the Saydnaya prison in Damascus
  • Friday, 20 December, 2024
    News in-depthSyrian crisis
    The last days of Assad

    The FT pieces together the final movements of Syria’s former president and first family

    A composite image of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad (C-L) and his wife Asma al-Assad (C) walking with their children; a rebel celebrating the fall of Damascus; and a transport plane on the runway Russian Hmeimim Air Base in Syria’s western province of Latakia
  • Thursday, 19 December, 2024
    Rachman Review podcast22 min listen
    Fear and euphoria in Damascus

    Raya Jalabi describes life in the Syrian capital after the fall of Assad

  • Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
    News in-depthSyrian crisis
    The Syrian neighbourhood at the heart of Assad’s killing machine

    Residents returning to Tadamon, once a rebel stronghold near Damascus, find mass graves and expropriated homes

    People walk in Tadamon district, which is littered with bones after what residents and rights groups described as years of killings there under the rule of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, on December 12
  • Sunday, 15 December, 2024
    Syrian crisis
    Russia pulls hundreds of troops out of Damascus

    Hayat Tahrir al-Sham says it co-ordinated retreat of soldiers to Hmeimim air base with Moscow

    A Russian military convoy heads towards Hmeimim air base
  • Friday, 13 December, 2024
    The Big Read
    Can victorious rebels rebuild a shattered Syria?

    The new rulers are taking control of institutions hollowed out by corruption and a devastated economy — amid a desire for revenge from some victims of Assad

    Montage of celebrating Syrians waving the new flag, overlaid on a map of Syria
  • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
    Syrian crisis
    Syria’s acting finance minister pushes plan to revive war-torn economy

    Riad Abd El Raouf, who served in former regime, says rebels to reopen border crossing and review Russia and Iran deals

    Syrians wait to cross through Jordan’s Jaber crossing and into Syria on December 8
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    News in-depthSyrian crisis
    The department of flags: Syrian rebels lay bare Assad’s corrupt state

    Transitional authorities grapple with bureaucracy filled with phantom jobs, pervasive graft and culture of obedience

    Mohammad Yasser Ghazal, a 36-year-old technocrat in the rebel Idlib government seconded from his job to help reconfigure the Damascus governorate
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Syrian crisis
    Israel wants to create ‘sterile’ zone in Syria, says defence minister

    Israeli forces have seized territory and reportedly struck hundreds of military targets once controlled by Assad regime

    An Israeli military vehicle crosses into the buffer zone with Syria in the Israel-occupied Golan Heights on Tuesday
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    Syrian crisis
    Syrian rebels seek to consolidate control

    HTS issues amnesty for conscripted military but Israel grabs territory on border

    Crowds on Umayyad Square in Damascus celebrate the overthrow of the Assad regime in Syria
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    News in-depthSyrian crisis
    Inside the Syrian prison at the heart of Assad’s police state

    On the outskirts of Damascus, Saydnaya holds the secrets to the fate of thousands who disappeared under the dictator

    A man holds onto bars at Sadnaya prison
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    Syrian crisis
    Israel draws furious reaction from Egypt after taking more Syrian territory

    Netanyahu has justified the incursion as a temporary move to protect Israeli citizens

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and defence minister Israel Katz, left, in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Sunday
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
    Syrian rebels topple Assad regime

    Overthrowing of regime marks culmination of lightning offensive by rebel groups

  • Sunday, 8 December, 2024
    Syrian crisis
    Assad flees Syria for Moscow as rebels seize Damascus

    Deposed leader arrives in Russian capital, according to state newswire, after regime toppled

    Cheering men walk past an arch on a Damascus street at daybreak on December 8
  • Sunday, 8 December, 2024
    News in-depthSyrian crisis
    Inside the fallen stronghold: Damascus erupts in joy as regime is swept away

    But euphoria is tempered by chaos as people overrun symbols of the former regime

    The crowds mass on and around a statue
  • Sunday, 8 December, 2024
    Syrian crisis
    Assad flees Syria as rebels seize Damascus

    Toppling of regime marks culmination of lightning offensive by rebel groups led by HTS

    An anti-government fighter steps on a torn up portrait of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad
  • Sunday, 8 December, 2024
    Person in the News
    Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, the Syrian rebel leader who overthrew the Assad regime

    The offensive by his Islamist group has marked a turning point in the country’s bloody 13-year civil war

    Illustration of Abu Mohammad al-Jolani in combat fatigues and cap, with beard, against a background of a map of Syria
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    Syrian crisis
    Syrian rebels seize key city of Hama as army retreats

    Insurgents’ commander announces ‘complete liberation’ after withdrawal of government forces

    A Syrian anti-government fighter fires his rifle into the air in the streets of the west-central city of Hama
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    News in-depthMiddle East military briefing
    How Syria’s rebels became makers of drones and guided missiles

    What began as a band of a few dozen jihadis is now a disciplined force with units producing modern weaponry

    Opposition fighters prepare Grad missiles to target Syrian regime forces in Aleppo.
  • Tuesday, 3 December, 2024
    Syrian crisis
    Syrian rebels reach outskirts of major city of Hama

    Advance from Aleppo highlights weakness of regime forces

    Syrian opposition fighters stand on top of a seized Syrian army armoured vehicle in the outskirts of Hama
  • Tuesday, 3 December, 2024
    Middle East war
    Israel says it will hold Lebanon responsible if ceasefire collapses

    Minister’s vow to ‘go deeper’ if hostilities resume comes after deadly Israeli air strikes severely test truce

    Israeli troops move between destroyed houses in the village of Meiss El-Jabal as they leave Lebanon on Tuesday
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