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In Aleppo’s Old City, a Syrian revolutionary flag now hangs from the historic castle, where crowds continue to celebrate Assad’s downfall. Dozens of people strolled outside the ancient ...

1. Entry into a post-Assad Syria As soon as news of Bashar al-Assad's ouster broke – and with the main airport at Damascus still out of action – I began making plans for how to get into Syria ...

Fr. Karakach reaches out to AsiaNews, sharing that the country still has ‘a long way to go’ to become a true ‘rule of law, stable and democratic state’. Among the positives are an open ...

Crossing the border from Jordan on Dec. 29, one North Jersey man had tears in his eyes. “I hugged the first Syrian person I ...

Arab media outlets reported on Thursday evening that Israel struck facilities belonging to the Syrian Ministry of Defense, east of the city of Aleppo. The Saudi television channel Al-Hadath ...

He had been dreaming of going back home ever since arriving in Turkey in the summer of 2014. To soothe his panic attacks in ...

Is it really all right to say now that Syria’s long, dark era has finally ended? Only eight days after the rebel fighters took control of Aleppo, Assad fled to Russia. His “castle,” built on ...