Turkish top officials make sudden trip to Damascus after Syria's deal with Kurdish-led group
ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s top diplomat, defense minister and intelligence chief paid a sudden visit to Damascus on Thursday, ...
Syrian leader signs constitution that puts the country under an Islamist group's rule for 5 years
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria's interim president on Thursday signed a temporary constitution that leaves the country under ...
A country too dangerous to visit is one I can’t wait to return to
As Mark Twain wrote, Damascus “measures time not by days and months and years, but by the empires she has seen rise and ...
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Factories shut, fleeing fighters: How Iran’s sway in Syria collapsed
In an abandoned complex in the Syrian desert city of Palmyra, a piece of paper bearing a motivational slogan in Farsi is pinned to a rough wall. “No beginning is more beautiful than hello, and no wish ...
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Syrian Shia Refugees In Lebanon Battle Mounting Hardships Amid Rising Sectarian Tensions
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has reported that several regions in Syria have witnessed an escalating wave of targeted killings and individual acts of retribution. The organization noted ...
13 Jacksonville restaurant casualties of the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath
The COVID-19 pandemic and its lingering after-effects hit Jacksonville restaurants hard forcing at least 13 including ...
90,000 Palestinians attend the first Friday prayers of Ramadan in Jerusalem
Some 90,000 Palestinians have prayed at the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City under tight security by Israeli ...