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From Damascus suburb to presidential palace: Ahmad Al Shara's past offers rare insight into his outlook
Mammoth concrete apartment buildings line the main motorway running west out of Damascus, relics of a Soviet-style economy ...
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In Assad’s Fall, an Echo of the Arab Spring
The regime’s collapse should also dispel at last the persistent myth that the Arab Spring was a mirage. The first wave of ...
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Wife of ousted Syrian dictator Assad suffers leukemia: 'Only 50% chance of survival'
Six months ago, leukemia was diagnosed in Asma al-Assad, the 49-year-old wife of ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad. And ...
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A voice of the Syrian revolution was killed. But the man who wrote his anthems lives
The Syrian soccer player Abdel Basset Al-Sarout became the poster child for the Syrian revolution with his iconic protest anthems. In death, he has become its saint. But he didn't do it alone.
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In first since regime fall, Syria’s Asma al-Assad breaks silence: What to know
In a series of posts on an X account attributed to her, Syria’s former first lady Asma al-Assad wished the Syrian people ...