“Dear President al-Assad. I write to thank the Syrian Arab Army for its heroic rescue of Christians in the Qalamoun Mountain Range. I am espacially grateful for the spectacular victory at Yabroud, where the Syrian Arab Army and Air Force liberated Christians and other Syrians who had been held captive by terrorists for several years. We are deeply grateful for the skill and valor displayed by Syrians troops who rescued the 13 nuns who were kidnapped and used as human shields by the cowardly jihadists at Yabroud […]”

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