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Once on the civil war's front line, the medieval souk, the major Syrian city's former bustling heart, is now largely ...

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The land's ancient Christian communities — the biblical Book of Acts notes that "in Antioch the disciples were for the first time called Christians" — were decimated by the Syrian civil war that began ...

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