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A man stands on a staircase inside a destroyed building in the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in the Syrian capital Damascus on April 6, 2015. (AFP Photo/Youssef Karwashan)

UN urges evacuation of Palestinian refugees in Syria camp

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 7, 2015 | Middle East

United Nations, AP—The UN Security Council called Monday for life-saving assistance and safe evacuation for up to 18,000 Palestinians facing escalating fighting in a refugee camp in the Syrian capital and what the UN official in charge described as “a completely...

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A handout file picture made available by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on April 1, 2015 of Palestinians carrying food supplies in the Palestinian Yarmouk refugee camp, in Damascus, Syria, on January 30, 2014. (EPA/SANA Handout)

ISIS seizes vast Damascus refugee camp

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 2, 2015 | Middle East

Beirut, Reuters—Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) fighters seized most of a vast camp for Palestinian refugees on the outskirts of Damascus from other insurgents on Wednesday in a bid to capture a major foothold close to President Bashar Al-Assad’s seat of...

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A handout picture released by the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on February 10, 2015 shows Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad (R) giving an interview to the BBC’s Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen in Damascus. (AFP Photo/HO/SANA)

Syria gets information on US-led air strikes via Iraq: Assad

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 10, 2015 | Middle East

Beirut, Reuters—Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad said third parties including Iraq were conveying information to Damascus about the US-led campaign of air strikes against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militant group in Syria. In an interview with the BBC...

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The headquarters of Al-Bashayer publishing house in Damascus, Syria (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Syrian Publishing’s Uncertain Future

by Hisham Adra | Feb 6, 2015 | Lifestyle & Culture

Damascus, Asharq Al-Awsat—In the years before the Syrian uprising broke out the publishing industry in Syria was thriving. Those acquainted with the business maintain that nearly a thousand publishing houses were operating in Syria, two hundred of which were...

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Damascus residents gather at the cultural center in the Old City. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

The Poet’s House in Old Damascus

by Hisham Adra | Jan 7, 2015 | Lifestyle & Culture

Damascus, Asharq Al-Awsat—Damascus’s Old City, the ancient heart of the Syrian capital, witnessed an interesting phenomenon during the 1990s, one that quickly bordered on becoming a craze: denizens began converting some of their traditional Syrian homes—some dating...