President Assad

Aleppo Syria

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December 20th 2009
Well still in Aleppo and not really that impressed - I must update you though and inform you of an earlier mistake of mine - Damascus is not the worlds oldest inhabited city, its Aleppo....should have known that because the streets for certain have not been cleaned for 17,000 years! Maybe I exaggerate! Anyway there are good bits though, but its the grimy bits in between that don't light my fire ... 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