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Postcard From My Past: Crossing Into Syria - New York Times Mon, 30 Jan 2017 14:19:49 GMT

New York Times
Postcard From My Past: Crossing Into Syria
New York Times
As I neared the end of my assignment, there was only one neighboring country I had not visited: Syria, a dictatorship frozen in time and overflowing with archaeological sites. With the prospect of peace on the horizon, I was determined to visit before ...

Syria Warns of Setting Up Safe Zones for Civilians as Unsafe - ABC News Mon, 30 Jan 2017 14:45:12 GMT

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Syria Warns of Setting Up Safe Zones for Civilians as Unsafe
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Syria warned Monday of safe zones for civilians that U.S. President Donald Trump has expressed interest in creating, saying it would have to come in coordination with the Syrian government, otherwise it would be unsafe and violate the Arab nation's ...
Saudis, UAE Predictably Back Trump Syria Safe Zone SchemeHuffington Post
Safe Zones in Syria Are a Bad IdeaCato Institute (blog)
Syria warns against safe zones set up without its consentReuters
RT -Yahoo Finance -Reuters -euronews
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Syria and Russia: A long and tangled history that involves the USS Liberty - Foreign Policy (blog) Mon, 30 Jan 2017 15:39:14 GMT

Foreign Policy (blog)
Syria and Russia: A long and tangled history that involves the USS Liberty
Foreign Policy (blog)
What did Syria (and by extension Russia) have to do with the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty almost 50 years ago? Lots, according to Anthony R. Wells, a veteran of U.S. and British intelligence. In his new book, A Tale of Two Navies (a study of the U ...

Local Family Denied Resolution to Return From Syria, Lawyers to File Action in Federal Court - NBC 10 Philadelphia Mon, 30 Jan 2017 22:43:54 GMT

Allentown Morning Call
Local Family Denied Resolution to Return From Syria, Lawyers to File Action in Federal Court
NBC 10 Philadelphia
A local family has been denied a resolution that would bring them back to Allentown from Damascus, Syria, where they were ordered to return after briefly landing at the Philadelphia International Airport Saturday morning. U.S. Customs and Border ...
Allentown-bound Syrian family barred from entering US back in Damascus as fundraiser gains steamAllentown Morning Call
Syrian Christian family, visas in hand, turned back at airportCNN
2 Syrian families detained at PHL, then put on flight back home6abc.com
Philly.com
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Pres. Trump's immigration executive order: Why Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Iran, Somalia, Libya and Yemen? - fox6now.com Mon, 30 Jan 2017 22:49:53 GMT

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Pres. Trump's immigration executive order: Why Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Iran, Somalia, Libya and Yemen?
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The circular issued by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) could not be clearer. “For the next 90 days, nearly all travelers, except US citizens, traveling from Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Iran, Somalia, Libya and Yemen will be temporarily suspended ...
No evidence for Trump claim that it was 'impossible' for Syrian Christians to enter U.S.PolitiFact
Trump signs executive order banning Syrian refugeesAljazeera.com
A Syrian Refugee Responds to Donald TrumpRollingStone.com
New York Post -Newsweek -The Guardian
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Syrian Films at Sundance Face Tough Road Ahead After Trump's Travel Ban - Variety Mon, 30 Jan 2017 23:27:00 GMT

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Syrian Films at Sundance Face Tough Road Ahead After Trump's Travel Ban
Variety
Fayyad, an award-winning Syrian filmmaker twice held by Bashar Assad's intelligence because of his previous film, made “Last Men in Aleppo” along with co-director and editor Steen Johannesen, in partnership with the Aleppo Media Center, to show the ...
In new movie 'Cries from Syria,' an eerily timely riposte to the Donald Trump banLos Angeles Times
'Cries From Syria': Film Review | Sundance 2017Hollywood Reporter

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In Allentown's Syrian community, a divide over Trump's travel ban - Allentown Morning Call Mon, 30 Jan 2017 23:11:25 GMT

Allentown Morning Call
In Allentown's Syrian community, a divide over Trump's travel ban
Allentown Morning Call
The working class streets of Allentown's sixth and first wards have long welcomed Syrian immigrants, many of whom traveled here from villages in Wadi al-Nasara, a small Christian enclave near the country's border with Lebanon. As early as the 1880s ...

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Priceless Ancient Seed Bank Saved from Destruction in Syria - Ancient Origins Mon, 30 Jan 2017 23:01:41 GMT

Priceless Ancient Seed Bank Saved from Destruction in Syria
Ancient Origins
An amazing collection of ancient seeds, some up to 10,000 years old, was saved from harm and destruction in Syria after a group of scientists in Aleppo managed to smuggle their valuable stockpile out of the country. Syria is one of the oldest ...

Syria's forgotten siege: The noose tightens around Deir Ezzor - IRINnews.org Mon, 30 Jan 2017 17:01:34 GMT

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Syria's forgotten siege: The noose tightens around Deir Ezzor
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The recent advance of the so-called Islamic State (IS) through Syrian army lines in besieged Deir Ezzor has deepened a humanitarian crisis and created a complex problem for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the Russians, and the new US president, ...
Russian long-range bombers destroy IS targets in Syria's Deir ez-ZorRT
Russian long-range bombers conduct airstrikes against Islamic State terrorists in SyriaAMN Al-Masdar News (registration)
14 Syrian Soldiers Killed in Islamic State Assault Near DamascusHaaretz
Sputnik International
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Indiana group expected refugees arriving from Burma, Syria - wlfi.com Mon, 30 Jan 2017 19:47:45 GMT

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Indiana group expected refugees arriving from Burma, Syria
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In this photo from Friday, Sept. 2, 2016, Syrian refugee Fatema, left, sits beside her sleeping 5-year-old son Ayham at the Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services in New Haven, Conn. The family was diverted to Connecticut last year after Indiana Gov.
The time Gov. Pence tried to block Syrian refugees — and failed miserablyWashington Post

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