After decades in exile, Syria's Jews visit Damascus
For the first time in three decades, Rabbi Joseph Hamra and his son Henry read from a Torah scroll in a synagogue in the heart of Syria's capital Damascus, carefully passing their thumbs over the ...
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Turkish opposition party delegation meets with Kurdish leader in Iraq as part of PKK peace efforts
A Turkish opposition party delegation arrived in Iraq’s semiautonomous Kurdish region Sunday against the backdrop of peace efforts between Ankara and a banned Kurdish separatist ...
France’s Macron urges Syria’s interim government to join a US-led coalition fighting extremists
French President Emmanuel Macron urged Syria’s interim government to cooperate with a U.S.-led coalition fighting against ...
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Virginia Fugitive In Stolen Car Arrested In Maryland, Sheriff Says
A Virginia fugitive wanted for burglary was tracked down in Maryland, where officers found him in possession of a stolen car, authorities said. Michael Anthony Kirk, Jr., 28, of Waldorf, was arrested ...
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Wyndham Echo Suites extended stay hotel opens in Virginia
A new construction Echo Suites Extended Stay by Wyndham hotel opened in Richmond, Virginia, property developer and manager Sandpiper Hospitality announced. The hotel is the seventh to open under ...
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Where to Stream Every Fast and Furious Movie Online in 2025
10 beloved films and a $6 billion box-office haul have cemented Fast and Furious as one of Hollywood's most iconic and longest running movie franchises of all time. Over almost 25 years, the ...
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US-backed commander says his Kurdish-led group wants a secular and civil state in post-Assad Syria
The commander of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, Mazloum Abdi, said in an interview Sunday that he recently met with Syria’s newly named interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa in Damascus.
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US-backed commander says his Kurdish-led group wants a secular and civil state in post-Assad Syria
The commander of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, Mazloum Abdi, said in an interview Sunday that he recently met with Syria’s newly named interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa in Damascus ...
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Syria’s interim president visits Saudi Arabia on first trip abroad, likely a signal to Iran
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Syria’s interim president made his first trip abroad Sunday, traveling to Saudi Arabia in a move likely trying to signal Damascus’ shift away from Iran as ...
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Leader of rebels who toppled Syrian President Bashar Assad is named country’s interim president
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The Syrian factions that toppled President Bashar Assad last month named an Islamist former rebel leader as the country‘s interim president on Wednesday in a push to ...
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Books banned under Assad now on sale at Damascus shops
DAMASCUS — Books recounting torture in Syrian prisons or texts on radical Islamic theology now sit openly in Damascus bookstores, no longer traded in secret after iron-fisted ruler Bashar al ...