Loss of Syrian cities is gain for European villages (Ehtesham Shahid, Al Arabiya)

As cities of Syria are bombed into submission some of its refugees have been finding solace in unlikely faraway places – villages of Europe. In the middle of anti-immigrant protests, even violence, routinely emerging from an edgy Europe, we have largely missed the unique instances of serene countryside opening their doors to hapless immigrants.

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