Syrians unearth horrors of the Assad years in their basements
Syrians had remained silent about the bodies dumped in countless basements by Assad’s forces. Rescue teams now are moving ...
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To re-shine again… a clean-up and rehabilitation campaign launched in Old Damascus
Damascus-SANA The Old Damascus Directorate ... The campaign includes cleaning and repairing walls and facades in Midhat Pasha Souq (market), cleaning streets and alleys, planting jasmine in ...
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Syrian Jews return to Damascus for the first time in decades, hoping to build bridges
Thousands of Jews left Syria in 1992, when they were allowed to emigrate. The visit by a small delegation of U.S.-based Syrian Jewish religious figures last week was their first time back since then.
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Syrian Jews return to Damascus for the first time in decades, hoping to build bridges
The winding streets of Damascus' old Jewish quarter ... ARRAF: There are dusty velvet pews pushed against walls with peeling paint. A pile of prayer books hundreds of years old are moldering ...