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How Putin’s friends plundered Syria before fleeing the country
Then, having done the same with the picture of Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s fallen dictator ... of a company owned by one of Putin’s closest friends, Gennady Timchenko, the oligarch, had arrived ...
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Syrian families scour hospitals and morgues for loved ones lost under Assad's rule
For reasons that still confuse even his closest friends he decided he had to go back to Syria in 2020. He was detained immediately and never heard from again. Now his family and friends know he ...
Syria's Kurdish community at the center of a post-Assad game of geopolitical tug-of-war
The fall of longtime strongman Bashar al-Assad has created a power vacuum that threatens some of the United States' ...
Syrians celebrate a month since Assad’s overthrow with revolutionary songs in Damascus
A packed concert hall in Damascus came alive this week with cheers as Wasfi Maasarani, a renowned singer and symbol of the ...
How to live like Jimmy Carter
"Treat everyone — family, friends and strangers — with honesty and respect," former president Jimmy Carter, who died at age ...
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How Putin’s friends plundered Syria before fleeing the country
The Russians, in the form of a company owned by one of Putin’s closest friends, Gennady Timchenko, the oligarch, had arrived in 2019 with grand promises to restore the plant to its former glory and a ...