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As Assad recovers, Syria is returning to stability

13 October 2018

9:00 AM

13 October 2018

9:00 AM

In order to avoid the Labour conference and yet more predictable media attacks on Jeremy Corbyn, I escaped late last month to Syria, where children were returning to school after the summer holidays. Large tracts of the country have recently been liberated from the control of jihadi groups, meaning that in some places children are going back to school for the first time in five years.

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