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Investigating Inside Syria, Six Months After Assad’s Fall
A panel of experts investigating and documenting crimes committed by the old regime share their experiences of working in the ...
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2000 ISIS militants active in Syria’s desert: Brigade spox
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - An estimated 2,000 Islamic State (ISIS) militants remain active in Syria’s vast desert regions, a ...
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Palmyra (Syria): View of Two Paper Squeezes of Bilingual Inscriptions in the Palmyrene Dialect of Aramaic (Syriac Script) and in Greek - Smithsonian Institution
Glass negative related primarly to an expedition to Palmyra (Syria), carried out by Moritz Sobernheim in 1899, when he photographed and made squeezes of some of the inscriptions. A few years later, ...
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Third-century queen, target of Syrian government, may have converted to Judaism
The ancient sources implying Queen Zenobia converted to Judaism are possibly accurate,” Haggai Olshanetsky, of University of Warsaw, told JNS.The post Third-century queen, target of Syrian government, ...
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Greetings from Alishan, Taiwan, whose red cypress forests offer timeless beauty
Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares snapshots of moments from their lives and ...
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New superintendent calls Lewiston school district 'really good place'
Todd Halvorsen worked at Plattsmouth Community Schools for the past 17 years before joining the district that includes ...