Syria is in a precarious place as it emerges from civil war and a long dictatorship. The recently announced removal of U.S. sanctions bring hopes that the economy might stabilize. Another challenge is Syria’s population— it is one of the […]
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Ghassan Mamouli, a representative from the Damascus government, inspects the damage at the site of an Israeli airstrike on Thursday. Emily Garthwaite for NPR hide caption toggle caption Emily Garthwaite for NPR DAMASCUS — An Israeli airstrike targeted an apartment
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In a part of Syria that had been a stronghold of deposed dictator Bashar Al-Assad, there has been a wave of violence against Alawites, the religious minority of the Assad family. Hundreds of Alawites have been killed and hundreds more
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In Syria, there’s been a major development as U.S.-backed Kurdish forces who have controlled part of the country for more than a decade have agreed to be incorporated into the Syrian state. Source link Jane Arraf
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Syrian security reinforcements deploy in Latakia, Syria, on Friday. Omar Albam/AP hide caption toggle caption Omar Albam/AP DAMASCUS, Syria — Syria’s new government sent in security reinforcements and imposed curfews on a key coastal area after some of the biggest
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There has been a major development in an armed conflict that has raged for decades between Turkey and a Turkish Kurdish group. The group’s founder has called for followers to disarm and dissolve. Source link Jane Arraf
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Rabbi Yusuf Hamra steps into the more than 500-year-old Faranj synagogue in Damascus for the first time in more than three decades. He left Syria, along with most of the country’s historic Jewish population, in 1992. Ayman Oghanna for NPR
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A trailer carrying the coffins containing the bodies of Hezbollah’s former leader Hassan Nasrallah and his cousin and successor Hashem Safieddine drives through the crowd during a funeral procession at the Sports City Stadium in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Feb. 23,
Salim Turki al-Anteri, the commander of the Syrian Free Army, in his office in al-Tanf, Syria, Dec. 14. Manu Brabo for NPR hide caption toggle caption Manu Brabo for NPR AL-TANF GARRISON, Syria — When Salim Turki al-Anteri took his
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A group of Syrian children with their parents return home in the cabin of a truck, after more than eight years taking shelter in the Rukban camp for displaced people in al-Tanf, Syria, at the edge of the Jordanian border,
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