updated Tue. April 16, 2024
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News Deeply
September 20, 2017
Two sources close to the Syrian government told Syria Deeply that in the last few months some European states have opened channels with the Syrian government for talks on potentially reopening their embassies. At least one other E.U. state has had channels with Damascus open for roughly two years.
The Independent
July 28, 2017
Syrian troops are now set up in positions on the Lebanese side of the border between the two countries in their battle to destroy al-Qaeda in the towering mountains of Qalamoun. Corpses rot on the mountainsides here as the Lebanese Hezbollah – fighting now inside Syria – prepare for a final struggleÃâà...
The Independent
July 28, 2017
Syrian troops are now set up in positions on the Lebanese side of the border between the two countries in their battle to destroy al-Qaeda in the towering mountains of Qalamoun. Corpses rot on the mountainsides here as the Lebanese Hezbollah – fighting now inside Syria – prepare for a final struggleÃâà...
gulfnews.com
June 7, 2017
1967 defeat left huge imprint on Syrian pysche ... Damascus: “Prepare for lunch in Tel Aviv” boomed Syrian Television in the early hours of the 1967 War. ... Angrily he took me to our house in the summer town of Bloudan near the capital, where we saw with our own eyes our defeat at a distance, withÃâà...
NRT
June 1, 2017
BLOUDAN, Syria — Spending the weekend and holidays at the bustling resort village of Bloudan was once the norm for Damascene families, before the civil war tore Syria apart. Even though Bloudan has never been out of Syrian government control since the war began in 2011, most holidaymakers didn't feel safe enoughÃâà...
Tallahassee.com
May 5, 2017
Ask her about Eid al-Adha, the Muslim holiday of charity and gift-giving, how they celebrated it in Syria. How the day before, she and her kids would make hundreds of ma'amoul cookies, shortbread filled with date or pistachio, shaped with the traditional carved olivewood mold. How relatives would takeÃâà...
Tallahassee.com
May 5, 2017
Ask her about Eid al-Adha, the Muslim holiday of charity and gift-giving, how they celebrated it in Syria. How the day before, she and her kids would make hundreds of ma'amoul cookies, shortbread filled with date or pistachio, shaped with the traditional carved olivewood mold. How relatives would takeÃâà...
Reliefweb
April 20, 2017
On 19 April, some 550 people from Az-Zabadani (158 people), Madaya (100 people), Bloudan mountain (150 people) and Sarghaya (100 people) departed for ... On 13 April, prior to the evacuations taking place, an explosion outside of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) office in Idleb city resulted in theÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
April 16, 2017
Since 2014, the Syrian government and the armed opposition groups have reached a series of reconciliation agreements in a number of besieged areas, mainly aiming at allowing armed opposition fighters to leave government-besieged cities and town to opposition-held areas in northern Syria , near the borders withÃâà...
Al-Arabiya
March 28, 2017
The agreement includes the release of 1,500 detainees to the Syrian regime, as well as a 9-month truce that includes the city of Idlib, Maara Masreen, ... in exchange for the fighters in Zabadani, Madaya, Bloudan, and hundreds of the detainees held by the Syrian regime, Al Arabiya reported on Tuesday.
The Guardian
October 28, 2016
... aid deliveries from government-held western Aleppo to rebel-held eastern Aleppo, because this was the “preference of the government of Syria”. The Syrian regime also makes requests of the UN. In May, the president, Bashar al-Assad, asked for deliveries to Palmyra, al-Qaryatayn, Bloudan and Houla.
Telegraph.co.uk
July 27, 2015
UN monitors speak with Syrian soldiers at their outpost in Zabadani in 2012 (AFP/Getty). Zabadani was one of the first towns to be “liberated” from the regime, in early 2012, its largely Sunni residents maintaining for a while a rather relaxed stand-off with the army. It then changed hands a couple of times,Ãâà...
The Independent
October 14, 2013
Bloudan is a Christian town – Zabadani is largely Sunni – and they have been on the front lines of Syria's war; those old smuggling trails now help to bring the tens of thousands of Syrian refugees into Lebanon, swelling now to 1.3 million, of whom at least 780,000 have been registered by the UN.
The Independent
October 14, 2013
Bloudan is a Christian town – Zabadani is largely Sunni – and they have been on the front lines of Syria's war; those old smuggling trails now help to bring the tens of thousands of Syrian refugees into Lebanon, swelling now to 1.3 million, of whom at least 780,000 have been registered by the UN.
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