A train station was once the pride of Syria’s capital. Some see it as a symbol of revival after war
A train station in Damascus was once the pride of the Syrian capital, an essential link between Europe and the Arabian ...
Scrawled on walls of Assad’s prisons, graffiti express fears, loves of tormented Syrians
Languishing in a dungeon cell of Syria’s then-ruler Bashar Assad, an unknown prisoner scrawled a verse of Arabic poetry on ...
Lessons from Syria’s volatile past for its uncertain future
Syria has faced such transitions before. Unless secular, pro-democracy advocates learn from the past, we risk falling into ...
Which path lies the future for Syria?
Which direction do we want Syria to go? Host to a 10-sided gunfight? A return to a repressive regime? Proxies and promoters ...
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A short history of Syria, in maps
In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged Assad’s rule. Tens of thousands of people were killed by the government’s ...
Texas Public Radio4d
‘We have our country back’: Syrians in Texas celebrate end of Assad regime
A month after the regime fell, some Syrians and Syrian Americans are already planning their first visits to the country after ...
Russian drone attack on Antonivka leaves woman in critical condition
The Russians have attacked the village of Antonivka in Kherson Oblast with a drone, leaving a woman injured. Source: Roman ...
How Early Christians Became a Family
That’s why Norman Hubbard, a campus minister and author, thinks it’s worth Christians’ time to re-examine the words with ...