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Eid Break Chapter 2: Aleppo

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October 21st 2007
I hope that the last entry was informative and engaging. I just realized when I was looking at it that the entry itself is over 3,000 words which is something like 12 pages of double-spaced text but I just had a lot to talk about. This installment is going to be the shortest of the three because it is only dealing with my one day and night in Aleppo. Without further ado let us begin. After l ... read more

Middle East » Syria » North » Aleppo

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Following the breakup of the Ottoman Empire during World War I, Syria was administered by the French until independence in 1946. In the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, Syria lost the Golan Heights to Israel. Syrian troops - stationed in Lebanon since 1976 in ... ... read more