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I Left My Heart in Old Damascus

The European Conservative
December 11, 2025
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It seems a reasonable question: if you love your homeland, fled only because a vicious civil war made you fear for your life, and now the war’s over, why haven’t you booked tickets home? But as Rafael Pinto Borges writes in The European Conservative, more than a year after the toppling of the murderous Assad regime, most of Europe’s 1.4 million Syrian “refugees” are apparently intent on staying put.

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