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Cohen is best known for his espionage work in Syria between 1961 and 1965, where he developed close relationships with the Syrian political and military hierarchy. Though he was initially successful, ...
News Syria » Damascus » History: France returns 23 Syrian treasures after 15 years as Macron visits Damascus
France has finally returned 23 Syrian archaeological treasures that remained in the country for about 15 years after being loaned for an exhibition. Their return coincided with French President ...
News Syria » Damascus » History: Syrian president opens Syria International Textile Exhibition
President Ahmed al-Sharaa inaugurated on Saturday the first Syria International Textile Exhibition, or NAS TEX 2026, describing it as a starting point for reconstruction efforts, combating poverty and ...
News Syria » Damascus » History: President al-Sharaa: Syria’s future shaped by civil peace, national unity and stability
President Ahmad al-Sharaa said on Saturday that the Syria International Textile Exhibition (NASTEX 2026) reflected the importance of ...
News Syria » Damascus » History: Macron arrives in Damascus on historic Syria trip
French President to set out 'demands' to Syrian leader Ahmad Al Shara ...
News Syria » Damascus » History: Syria’s technocratic bet and the missing oil rent
ON Sunday, 210 lawmakers took the constitutional oath in Damascus and elected Abdul Hamid al-Awak, a judge who defected from Bashar al-Assad’s justice ministry and fled to Turkey, as speaker of ...
News Syria » Damascus » History: Syria down to Saladin: Ibn Asakir’s History of the City of Damascus
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/jj.35139576 This book is provided in an accessible EPUB that can be consumed textually, visually, or a combination of the two ...
News Syria » Damascus » History: Syria-Lebanon relations: from contested history to uncertain diplomatic path
A key point in the historical record is that from 1920 to 2008, a span of 88 years, Syria did not establish formal diplomatic relations with Lebanon. There were no embassies or exchanges of ...
News Syria » Damascus » History: Why does Syria suddenly need its last practicing Jew? It needs America.
In what used to be Syria’s old Jewish quarter, Bakhour Chamntoub, a 76-year-old tennis-playing bachelor, lives as the last practicing Jew in Syria and the de facto leader of Syria’s six-person-strong ...