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Lizzie Porter

Lizzie Porter

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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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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
Lizzie Porter
A Syrian migrant woman waits with her three children at Cilvegozu border gate to cross into Syria, in Hatay province, Turkey. Reuters
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
Lizzie Porter
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
Lizzie Porter
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
Lizzie Porter
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
Lizzie Porter
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
Lizzie Porter
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
Khaled Yacoub Oweis
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
Ellie Sennett
Anti-government fighters take position at the Kweyris military airfield in the eastern part of Aleppo province. AFP
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
Lizzie Porter
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
Lizzie Porter
Opposition fighters pose for pictures near Aleppo's Old City. Thousands of Syrian insurgents have spread throughout Syria's largest city, Aleppo, a day after entering with little resistance from government troops. AP
Syrian war boils over as army tries to regroup after Aleppo loss

Militants advance on Aleppo and Hama as key questions remain over future of Syria

MENADecember 02, 2024
Lizzie Porter
Fighters deploy to Atareb, Aleppo province as clashes between the Syrian army and Hayat Tahrir militants continues. AFP
Syria civil war re-erupts as militants close in on Aleppo

Fierce fighting with government forces on fringes of historic city is reminiscent of violent insurgencies after 2011 uprising

MENANovember 29, 2024
Robert Tollast
Smoke rises between buildings hit in Israeli air strikes near the Palestinian refugee camp of Rashidiyeh, as seen from Tyre. AP
Israeli settlers' dream to occupy south Lebanon dimmed by ceasefire

Agreement puts hold on ambitions of taking control of region

MENANovember 28, 2024
Lizzie Porter
Ras Lanuf oil and gas company in Libya. Reuters
Libya sets sights on higher gas output in energy policy shift

North African country aims to increase natural gas output to 4 billion cubic feet a day in the next three to five years as it tries to increase exports

EnergyNovember 22, 2024
Lizzie Porter
Reem Al Sayyed looks at pictures of her son Rayyan after the 15-year-old was shot dead by an Israeli soldier in Jenin. Lizzie Porter / The National
Special Report'We are all targeted': Jenin reels from Israeli military operations

The killing of children and Israel's largest military operation in two decades have scarred the occupied West Bank city

MENANovember 21, 2024
Lizzie Porter
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