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Syria’s New Interim President Travels to Saudi Arabia for First Foreign Visit
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Once off-limits to Syrians, Assad’s former summer residence now attracts tourists
One of those was the Assad summer home, with a private beach on the Mediterranean. (Ayman Oghanna for NPR) QARDAHA, LATAKIA, ...
Russia, Seeking to Salvage Military Bases, Goes Hat in Hand to Syria
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Books banned under Assad now on sale
DAMASCUS—Books recounting torture in Syrian prisons or texts on radical Islamic theology now sit openly in Damascus ...
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Once off-limits to Syrians, Assad's former summer residence now attracts tourists
QARDAHA, LATAKIA, Syria — There is a long, winding road leading to what was once the family home of ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad just outside Latakia on Syria's Mediterranean coast.