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Festive lights, security tight for Christmas in Damascus

Christmas lights illuminate Damascus's Old City while government forces patrol its shadows as security fears haunt Syria's ...
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In Syria, relief and reality collide one year after Assad’s fall

Early Monday morning in Aleppo, soldiers lined the streets near the old city walls, standing in loose formation beside battered buildings as men gathered quietly around them.
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Syrian President Seeks Investors to Rebuild Aleppo's Bombed-Out Old City

The city of Aleppo before its destruction, viewed from its historic citadel (photo via Wikimedia) As if the horrors of Syria’s war weren’t already difficult to process, now there’s this: a group of ...
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In Syria’s new era, like the old, a family watches another son disappear

NAWA, Syria — One by one, the men of the al-Amareen family vanished into Syria’s darkest places, its dungeons and its graves. Muammar, a 39-year-old engineer, was killed in 2012 during the first ...