For the first time, Syrians 'not afraid' to talk politics
For decades, any Syrian daring to broach political topics got used to speaking in hushed tones and with a watchful eye ...
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Syria Faces Its Past and Its Future
Images taken just after the precipitous end of the civil war reveal a secret legacy that is just becoming visible.
Syria’s dwindling Jewish community can visit one of the world’s oldest synagogues again
Syria's civil war left one of the world's oldest synagogues partially destroyed. Now Syria's handful of remaining Jews are ...
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New leaders in Damascus call for cordial Syria ties with a resistant Israel
"Our problem is not with Israel. We don't want to meddle in anything that will threaten Israel's security," Damascus Governor ...
Syria’s Alawite Minority, Favored by the Assads, Looks Nervously to the Future
Amid an outcry for justice and accountability and threats online, a once-dominant group is feeling deep anxiety after the ...
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Visiting the market in the old city of Damascus, once inaccessible to many Syrians
Others have brought a sense of relief and joy. That was evident at the Al-Hamidiyah market in the heart of the old city of Damascus. It was once inaccessible to many Syrians. NPR's Hadeel Al-Shalchi ...
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Let’s Talk Turkey
A Turkish television news report Tuesday claimed that Turkey’s President Recep Erdogan will travel to Damascus Friday and offer prayer at that city’s ancient Great Mosque. His transportation minister ...
Mass graves shed a light on Assad’s ‘killing machine’
We haven’t really seen this kind of machinery of death, or anything like it, since the Nazis,” one US-based investigator said ...
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The Assad regime's fall has freed displaced Syrians stuck in a remote desert camp
More than 7,000 people had taken shelter in the Rukban camp, near the border with Jordan, many of whom fled the regime and ...
To evade Assad’s secret police, Syrians developed a code language
Fear of the regime was so pervasive that Syrians felt they could never speak freely, even in their own homes.
Inside a stunning week across Syria following the overthrow of the Assad regime
Bel Trew spent days travelling across Syria – from Aleppo in the north, to the capital Damascus and Deraa in the south – ...