"To be honest, the Alawites clearly ask for international protection," a former Syrian diplomat told Newsweek.

As Mark Twain wrote, Damascus “measures time not by days and months and years, but by the empires she has seen rise and ...

SHOCKING new videos has shown rifle-wielding gunmen storming the streets of Damascus after 1,500 people ... "We are paving the way for life to return to normal and for the consolidation of ...

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He said safes had been “broken open” by looters who entered the office just hours after the Assad brothers fled Syria on December 8 when Damascus ... was a perfectly normal cash float ...

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Mr Falconer said the interim authorities in Damascus “must ensure the protection ... of the sanctions is very much focused on allowing normal Syrians and the humanitarian actors to get on ...