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UN agency chief speaks out as hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are returning to devastated northern Gaza.

Abdulrahman ... with Bashar al-Assad, as he considered it his pillar of support. It saved him in 2014 but failed after ten years. In the final weeks of his life, Hafez al-Assad decided in March 2000 ...