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Syria’s de facto leader has said it could take up to four years to hold elections in Syria, and that he plans on dissolving ...

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Ukraine became one of the first countries to pay a high-level visit to Syria after the overthrow of the Bashar al-Assad ...

A Syrian family that survived a 2013 chemical weapons attack that killed hundreds of people near the country's capital, Damascus, says the ordeal they experienced haunts them to this day ...

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"Nobody wants to see fighting in Damascus." Rim Turkmani, director of the Syria Conflict Research Programme at the London School of Economics, said her sister was still in the city and had ...