Syria's interim president makes first trip abroad, heading to Saudi Arabia in likely signal to Iran
Syria’s interim president has made his first trip abroad, traveling to Saudi Arabia in a move likely trying to signal ...
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Lebanon’s PM meets Syria’s de facto leader in Damascus
Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati has said Beirut and Damascus will work together to secure their land borders, as well as to delineate both land and sea borders. In the first trip ...
UN refugee chief calls for more help for Syria as refugees begin to return en masse
The United Nations refugee chief says some 200,000 refugees have returned to Syria from neighboring countries since the ...
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Syria, Lebanon army officials holds talks on border security amid trafficking spike
The meeting between the Syrian chief of staff and the Lebanese military official was the first since the Assad regime was ...
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Lebanon's Mikati to meet Syrian leader Sharaa in Damascus, Lebanese sources say
Visit will be first by a Lebanese premier since 2010 Lebanon's Hezbollah played big part in propping up Assad Lebanon's new president sees 'historic opportunity' Syria's Sharaa Damascus will not ...
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Martyrs of Damascus relic, icon pilgrimage a chance to reflect on Christian hope
A local pilgrimage that kicked off in January in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis offers an opportunity to celebrate the newly canonized Martyrs of Damascus and to, in prayer, walk ...
U.N. refugee chief calls for cooperation to secure return of Syrians to homeland
U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi called Thursday for cooperation between Syria's new authorities, host ...
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A century of chaos in Syria
From this brief mandate, Syria inherited a parliamentary system modeled after France’s, but political parties were little ...