NPR News: 12-13-2024 6AM EST
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🗓️ 13 December 2024
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| 0:18.9 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corvick Coleman. |
| 0:22.1 | The Israeli defense minister is telling his troops to prepare to stay through the winter |
| 0:26.4 | at their positions in Syria. |
| 0:28.7 | NPR's Michelle Kellerman reports. |
| 0:30.6 | U.S. officials say that the Israelis are assuring them that this move is defensive and temporary. |
| 0:36.0 | When Bashar al-Assad's regime fell Israeli troops took over |
| 0:39.8 | more than a half dozen Syrian positions in a buffer zone that was set up in 1974. U.S. National |
| 0:46.1 | Security Advisor Jake Sullivan says the Israelis have security concerns about what comes next in Syria. |
| 0:52.5 | We do have every expectation that it will be temporary. |
| 0:55.6 | The prime minister, the Israeli government, have made that point not just to the United States, |
| 0:59.6 | but have made that point publicly. Arab states accuse Israel of a land grab. |
| 1:04.1 | Michelle Kellerman, NPR News, Tel Aviv. President Biden will attend a virtual meeting today |
| 1:09.3 | with leaders from the group of seven nations. |
| 1:12.2 | They're expected to discuss the situation in Syria and the rest of the Middle East. |
| 1:17.1 | Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is in Turkey, meeting with leaders there to discuss the future of Syria following the toppling of the Assad regime. |
| 1:26.5 | The White House is downplaying the threat risk from |
| 1:29.3 | mysterious drone sightings in New York and New Jersey. As NPR's Tamara Keith reports, this comes |
| 1:35.6 | as state and local officials are raising alarms and demanding answers. The reported drone |
| 1:41.2 | sightings, which began in late November, are being investigated by the Department of Homeland Security and FBI. |
| 1:47.8 | White House National Security spokesman John Kirby said federal investigators as well as state and local law enforcement have not been able to corroborate the sightings. |
| 1:57.1 | Upon review of available imagery, he said many of the objects appear to be manned aircraft, not drones, and operated lawfully. |
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