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People inspect the damage after explosions hit the Syrian city of Tartous, in this handout picture provided by SANA. Reuters

U.N. Condemns Terrorist Attacks in Tartous

by Jordan Dakamseh | May 24, 2016 | Middle East

New York-United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned the terrorist attacks that claimed the lives of dozens of civilians in the Syrian coastal cities of Jableh and Tartous. A statement attributable to his spokesperson said that the Secretary-General...

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Al-Nusra Front members cheer. Reuters

Rebels Seize Alawite Village in Syria

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | May 12, 2016 | Middle East

Al-Nusra Front and allied fighters captured a village of Bashar Assad’s minority Alawite sect in western Syria on Thursday and abducted civilians living there, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Regime forces and their allies were still fighting...

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Traditional Syrian furniture maker Kamel Al-Khabir. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Breaking Syria’s furniture-makers

by Hisham Adra | Oct 24, 2014 | Lifestyle & Culture

Damascus, Asharq Al-Awsat—As the Syrian crisis drags on into its fourth, agonizing year, the toll it is taking on the country’s cultural heritage is becoming more and more apparent, alongside the terrible human cost of the war for control of the country. In one corner...