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Russian officials make first visit to Damascus since Assad's overthrow
Senior Russian officials arrived in Damascus on Tuesday for their first meetings with Syria's new leadership under Hayat ...
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Orientalium Ecclesiarum: How Vatican II Drew From Eastern Catholic Tradition
COMMENTARY: Approved on the same day as ‘Lumen Gentium’ and ‘Unitatis Redintegratio,’ ‘Orientalium Ecclesiarum’ manifests the ...
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Russian government delegation makes first official visit to Syria since Assad's fall
A delegation of Russian officials arrived in Damascus on Tuesday for the first such visit to Syria since the fall of former President Bashar Assad.Assad, an ally of Moscow, took refuge in Russia after ...
Israel says its troops in Syria will remain atop Mt Hermon indefinitely
Mount Hermon, a huge cluster of snowcapped mountain peaks towering above the Syria-Lebanon border, overlooks the Damascus ...
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Books once banned by Assad are now on sale at Damascus shops
Books recounting torture in Syrian prisons or texts on fundamentalist Islamic theology now sit openly in Damascus bookstores, ...