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            <title><![CDATA[Assad's New Life in Moscow: Gaming in Luxury Under Putin's Protection]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[He ordered nerve gas against his own population – now he spends his days playing online games in a skyscraper in Moscow. Syria's deposed dictator Bashar al-Assad is living a good life under Vladimir Putin's protection, according to an investigation by the German Die Zeit.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2025 03:45:52 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[After the Civil War – People Are Fleeing Syria Again]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Is Syria on its way to falling back into civil war – just a few months after the Assad regime's fall? In just a few days, over 1,300 people were killed along the Syrian Mediterranean coast, mainly Alawites and Christians. Many are now terrified and have fled the country.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2025 05:01:35 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Swedish police can nail Assad's torturers]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[A landslide of testimonies is expected to come from Syrians in Sweden who have been victims of crimes in their home country, but who previously did not dare to testify due to fear of the former dictator Bashar al-Assad's reprisals. But even their perpetrators are believed to be here in Sweden.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2025 15:56:53 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Swedish police can nail Assad's torturers]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[A landslide of testimonies is expected to come from Syrians in Sweden who have been subjected to crimes in their home country, but who previously did not dare to testify due to fear of the former dictator Bashar al-Assad's reprisals. But even their perpetrators are believed to be here in Sweden.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 24 Feb 2025 10:12:13 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Syrians want to go home – but uncertainty is great]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Hundreds of thousands of Syrians on the run may return home in the coming months, according to the UN. But for this to happen, political stability and reconstruction of the country are required, says Annika Sandlund at UNHCR. For Syrians to be able to return home, they must have a home to return to.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 30 Dec 2024 05:00:28 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Investigator: Not seen anything like it since the Nazis]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Tens of thousands of Syrians are believed to have been executed, tortured or starved to death in Assad's regime's notorious prisons. For the relatives, the wait for answers is unbearable. The work of excavating Syria's dead has only just begun.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 18 Dec 2024 11:06:09 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[So the attack that toppled Assad was planned]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[For several years, the Islamist movement HTS planned how they would overthrow the Assad regime. The only thing they were waiting for was the right moment, according to the military chief Abu Hassan al-Hamwi.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 14 Dec 2024 05:00:27 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Batoul: Savoring the Freedom We've Always Dreamed Of]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The news spreads like wildfire: Bashar al-Assad has fled the country – the regime has fallen. Batoul Ward cannot believe it. She is paralyzed. I only felt distrust. How can a bird believe it is free after having its wings clipped for 14 years? Now it's up to proof for Syria's new government, says the 30-year-old.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 13 Dec 2024 05:30:33 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Syria's new government: Come home – everyone is welcome]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[All religious communities will be allowed to exist and operate in Syria, promises the country's new government in a charm offensive. Syrians who fled the bloody war are being urged to return and participate in the reconstruction.]]></description>
            <link>https://swedenherald.com/article/syrian-militia-leader-the-west-has-nothing-to-fear</link>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2024 07:41:43 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Syrians: Didn't dare to talk for 55 years – not even at home]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Syrians wake up from a nightmare that has lasted half a century. In many places, people are going out of their houses to celebrate that the al-Assad family's regime is over. It feels like a dream, says 49-year-old Rim Ramadan.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 09 Dec 2024 17:54:25 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Rebels in Damascus suburbs – the dictator is invisible]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Islamic rebel forces have reached the Damascus suburbs in the offensive whose goal is to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad's regime. At the same time, the dictator has not been seen, but his office denies that he has fled the capital.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 07 Dec 2024 07:30:20 GMT</pubDate>
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