But this is what's available for 70 Syrian children from cities like Aleppo, Homs and Damascus.
Billions would pour into the bank accounts of Hamas leaders in Gaza and Damascus.
Ankara and Damascus were once allies, but over the past two years, they've been at each others' throats.
Now he can bond with all the regional paranoia emanating out of Moscow, Tehran and Damascus about American power.
And Damascus has a far better claim than Bahrain to need defensive weapons.
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Some other pharmaceutical factories are located in the suburbs of Homs and Damascus, which are also facing a lot of violence.
In recent years the governments in Baghdad and Damascus have talked of a new pipeline to Banias, on the Syrian coast.
Relations between Moscow and Damascus have been getting closer recently - this visit is Mr Assad's third to Russia in three years.
Yes, the terrorist training camps in Syria are still functioning and Damascus does little to impede foreign jihadists' travel through Syrian territory.
Anti-regime protesters, meanwhile, came out onto the streets in several cities including Idlib, Homs, Deir Ezzor, Raqqa, Aleppo and Damascus, according to the LCC.
In May-June 1967, on the eve of the Six-Day War, frenzied crowds in Cairo and Damascus and elsewhere called for the final battle to destroy Israel.
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On the Palestinian side they include Hamas's refusal to recognise Israel explicitly, tension between Hamas's domestic and Damascus-based leaders, and its waning authority over other armed groups.
Washington Poststory by Robin Wright and Joby Warrick as "the critical link between Pyongyang and Damascus" for procurement of materials needed by Syria for building that illicit reactor on the Euphrates.
The talks, which have been the start of more regular contacts between Washington and Damascus through normal diplomatic channels, focused in part on getting Syria to seal its border with Iraq.
The government brought reinforcements to Damascus suburbs and further south on Sunday to regain control of areas the rebels recently captured between the Jordanian border and Damascus, the seat of Assad's power.
Mr. Obama has never owned up to the fact that the cruel regimes in Tehran and Damascus were the ones he had been eager to court at the dawn of his presidency.
This was not confirmed in Washington, but on September 17th the Syrian newspaper Tishrin claimed that Mrs Albright had agreed to shuttle between Jerusalem and Damascus, to get that long-dormant negotiation going again.
So, too, Turkey's open support for Iran's nuclear weapons program and its galloping trade with Teheran and Damascus, as well as its embrace of al-Qaida financiers have elicited nothing more than grumbles from Israel and America.
Both Pyongyang and Damascus are certified sponsors of international terrorism: There can be no excuse for Russia facilitating the former's efforts to earn hard currency by selling arms with weapons-of-mass-destruction potential nor the latter's determination to acquire them.
Owing to the volatile security situation, it has not been possible to assess the extent of the damage to the ancient city of Aleppo and several other World Heritage sites including the Crac des Chevaliers, Palmyra, the Ancient Villages in Northern Syria and Damascus.
For two years, the US and its allies have ignored this truth, preferring to pretend that these programs are wholly independent entities rather than acknowledge that - evil or not - a trilateral axis of proliferation among Pyongyang, Teheran and Damascus is a going concern.
He observed that, while the idea of deploying an armed U.S. force on the Golan Heights as part of an overall peace settlement between Syria and Israel is under active consideration in Washington, Jerusalem and Damascus, there has been little public analysis or discussion of the merits or purposes of such a deployment.
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They will hear that we disavow our military objective in Baghdad really before it has meaningfully begun, and most importantly in the shadows where our enemies lurk, in places like Tehran and Damascus, the message will fail where its authors intend, but it will succeed very, very mightily where they wish it would not.
And there is a somewhat moist-eyed account of a peace symposium convened by the conductor Daniel Barenboim that called for more European mediation a call in which one cannot help but hear a subconscious lament by the eminent and worldly participants that Jerusalem and Damascus were not more like Vienna and Paris in the first place.
Except this aircraft repair looks like the leading edge of an Obama diplomatic overhaul involving a host of high-level appointments, envoys, concessions and complex calculations about trying to wean Syria away from Iran, engage Damascus in brokering yet more of the endless Middle East "peace process, " temper terrorism and generally create a new atmosphere of what Obama describes as "mutual respect" between Washington and Damascus.
Opposition activists reported at least 75 more deaths on Wednesday amid heavy fighting in and around Damascus and Daraa.
That figure includes 31 dead in the province of Aleppo, 26 in and around Damascus and at least 17 in Homs.
On Monday, 100 people were killed nationwide, the opposition Local Coordination Committees in Syria said, including 34 in and around Damascus and 29 in Aleppo.
At least 13 of 96 people killed across the country Saturday were from Damascus and the Damascus suburbs, the opposition Local Coordination Committees of Syria said.
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