‘Everything is better than before’: How Syria is reopening to tourists
Syria’s status as a classic Middle East tourist definition was shredded by civil war. Visitors are now beginning to return, ...
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Syria shouldn’t repeat the mistakes of Iraq’s hasty post-Saddam elections
With the remarkable overthrow of Bashar al-Assad in Syria by a group of rebels led by ... Take post-Saddam Hussein Iraq as a case in point. After the Iraqi dictator was overthrown by a U.S ...
US tells UN: We cannot pay forever for Syria camps with Islamic State-linked prisoners
U.S. assistance for managing and securing camps in northeastern Syria with Islamic State-linked prisoners "cannot last ...
Historic landmarks in Iraq's Mosul are reopening as the city heals from Islamic State devastation
For over 850 years, the leaning minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri stood as an iconic landmark in the Iraqi city of Mosul ...
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Iraq's famed 'hunchback' of Mosul rebuilt brick by brick
The leaning minaret of Mosul in northern Iraq has been restored using its original brickwork, years after it was reduced to ...
Regime change in Syria has Iraqi factions backtracking on push for US withdrawal
The fall of Bashar Assad in Syria has led Iran-allied factions in neighboring Iraq to reconsider their push for U.S. forces to exit the country, multiple Iraqi and American officials told The Associat ...
Foreign Affairs29d
The Best Way for America to Help the New Syria
But as a new government takes shape in Damascus, Syrians and foreign observers alike worry about how inclusive, representative, and Islamist it may be. The country’s de facto leader, Ahmed al-Shara, ...
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US general visits northeast Syria
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The commander of United States ... in northeast Syria (Rojava) have repeatedly urged the international community to do. Kurilla visited Iraq and the Kurdistan Region ...
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SDF’s Abdi says new Syria must be civil, secular
But Abdi also stressed that the Kurds want to remain in Syria as part of a united country and do not seek a model similar to the Kurdistan Region in neighboring Iraq, explaining that they are not ...
The New York Times9d
In Turkey, New Syrian Leader and Erdogan Pledge to Work Together
In their first meeting, Syria ... by the United States to fight the jihadists of the Islamic State, a terrorist organization because of its ties to Kurdish militants in Turkey and Iraq who ...
The Hamilton Spectator11d
Turkey says it will join with neighbors to fight the Islamic State group in Syria
ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Jordan will come together to fight the remnants of the Islamic State group, a move that would allow the United States to cut ties with Kurdish militants ...
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Turkey says it will join with neighbors to fight the Islamic State group in Syria
Syria, Iraq and Jordan will come together to fight the remnants of the Islamic State group, a move that would allow the United States to cut ties with Kurdish militants in Syria, the Turkish ...