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The optimism about changes in Syria should be tempered by a look at what is in, and what's out, in the new regime's schoolbooks.

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DAMASCUS -The U.S. envoy for Syria, Thomas Barrack, raised the American flag over the ambassador's residence in Damascus on Thursday for the first time since the embassy closed in 2012, a year ...

The symbolic raising marks the first time the U.S. flag has flown above Damascus since Washington shut down its embassy in response to deadly violence.