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4/6/2018 1:27:56 PM
US President Donald Trump’s announcement that the US is withdrawing its forces from Syria has spread consternation in Syria and the wider region, writes Bassel Oudat in Damascus
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Region
3/9/2018 2:34:23 PM
Fighting in the Syrian conflict has been escalating since the beginning of the year, indicating that the international players are determined to use military options to assert their influence
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World
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Region
3/3/2018 12:58:37 PM
Regime flags are now flying in the northern Syrian city of Afrin, ostensibly under Kurdish militia control
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World
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Region
3/3/2018 10:51:11 AM
UN Security Council Resolution 2401 forcing a one-month ceasefire in Syria may not be enough to end the massacres in Eastern Ghouta
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World
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Region
2/22/2018 8:06:44 PM
US forces killed some 200 Russian fighters in Deir Al-Zor in eastern Syria this week in the first fatal engagement between the two countries since the end of the Cold War
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World
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Region
2/15/2018 9:35:29 PM
For the first time in 40 years, an Israeli jet has been shot down from Syria
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Region
2/9/2018 7:42:35 PM
Turkey has been doing battle in the northern Syrian town of Afrin against separatist Kurdish militias for the past three weeks, so far without any great success
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World
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Region
1/27/2018 12:38:29 AM
The US has announced a new strategy on Syria, but observers are responding cautiously because of past experience and its lack of credibility
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World
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Region
1/19/2018 10:18:24 AM
Russia has threatened to 'teach a lesson' to the Syrian opposition in the run-up to the Sochi Conference, bluntly indicating the extent of its alliance with the regime
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World
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Region
1/13/2018 1:38:07 AM
The protests in Iran are being closely watched in Syria, as the fate of the regime in Damascus is bound up with that of the one in Tehran, writes Bassel Oudat in Damascus
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Year End Issue
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World
1/9/2018 8:28:17 PM
With the rising star of Russia in the region and the demise of the Islamic State group, nothing is certain about the fate of Syria as it enters an eighth year of civil war.
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World
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Region
1/5/2018 5:06:35 PM
The Syrian opposition has called for a boycott of the Russian-sponsored Sochi Conference on the crisis in the country, seeing it as a way of legitimising the Damascus regime
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Arts & Culture
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Music
12/25/2017 4:42:01 PM
Egypt-based Syrian singer and composer Farid Al Atrash died 43 years ago, on 26 December 1974
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Arts & Culture
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Music
12/18/2017 2:16:11 PM
Simultaneous concerts will be held in honour of the 'King of the Oud' 43 years after his death in 1974
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Antiquities
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Islamic
7/12/2017 2:33:01 PM
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Arts & Culture
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Music
11/29/2016 3:53:00 PM
Shamma is most celebrated for giving the traditional string instrument a more contemporary sound
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Arts & Culture
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Music
10/24/2016 3:58:04 PM
The concert is in celebration of the band's first year anniversary
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Arts & Culture
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Music
8/14/2016 7:26:22 PM
Khalife will perform as part of this year's Jordan Festival
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Multimedia
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8/1/2016 5:30:53 PM
The famed Lebanese singer and oud master opened the 14th edition of Bibliotheca Alexandrina's Int'l Summer Festival with a mesmeric concert held 29 July
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Arts & Culture
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Music
7/31/2016 7:03:09 PM
The famed Lebanese oud master opened the 14th edition of Bibliotheca Alexandrina's Int'l Summer Festival with a mesmeric concert held 29 July
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