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The bill calls for a report identifying Syrian officials who are suspected of abuses and for consideration of targeted sanctions against them.
News Syria » Damascus » Religion: Syrian authorities' new limits on alcohol sales in Damascus spark backlash
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Hundreds of residents from a range of religious sects poured into a grassy square in Bab Touma, a Christian neighborhood in Damascus, chanting “Syrians are united!” and ...
News Syria » Damascus » Religion: Syria’s religious minorities need stability, and we can help
When Americans think of the Middle East, we often focus on the headlines: wars between states, clashes between Sunnis and Shias, or the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Beneath those familiar stories ...
News Syria » Damascus » Religion: Religious Freedom Is Syria’s First Test
The U.S. Should Seek Closer Defense Ties with Azerbaijan The War at Home, Three Years After October 7 Syria’s future depends on whether it will protect its most vulnerable citizens — Christians and ...
News Syria » Damascus » Religion: Former grand mufti’s life sentence shows how far Syria will pursue Assad-era religious enablers
CAIRO: The conviction of Syria’s former grand mufti Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun and Washington’s decision to remove a major obstacle to economic engagement came within hours of each other this week, ...
News Syria » Damascus » Religion: Reports: Netanyahu spoke to Syria's al-Sharaa over Druze violence
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke by phone with Syrian interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa about violence against the minority Druze community last year, several Israeli media outlets ...
News Syria » Damascus » Religion: Syrian Transitional President Visits Greek Orthodox Patriarch in Damascus
Although it was not the first encounter between Al-Shar’a and Christian religious leaders, the meeting was significant because it was his first official visit to a church since taking office in ...
News Syria » Damascus » Religion: Hopeful for a new beginning in the new year, American Jews make historic trip to Syria
(RNS) — Millennia of Jewish life in Syria came to a close in the 1990s. Today, only around half a dozen elderly Jews are believed to remain. (RNS) — As Jews around the world were preparing for the new ...
News Syria » Damascus » Religion: A Syrian Concert Delivers a Powerful Message of Tolerance
On the night of September 17, Damascus witnessed something it had not seen in fifteen years. Assala Nasri, the Syrian-born superstar who had lived in exile since she bravely threw her support ...
News Syria » Damascus » Religion: Why Syria’s Sweida Remains A Flashpoint For Damascus And The Druze – Analysis
Renewed fighting in Syria’s southern Sweida province has underscored how fragile the country’s post-Assad political settlement remains and how far Damascus still has to go to establish its authority ...
News Syria » Damascus » Religion: Opinion - Syria’s religious minorities need stability, and we can help
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