Inside Syria's ancient capital, a lone Jewish guardian watches over abandoned properties while Islamist rulers patrol the ...

Several books that were previously banned and only available to Syrians if they were pirated online now frequently pop up on ...

We explore the history behind the great mosque by following the journey of the renowned Andalusian traveller and poet, Abul Huayn ibn Jubayr The courtyard of the mosque with its mosaics and ...

In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...

At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground ... killed hundreds of people near the country’s capital, Damascus, says the ordeal they experienced haunts them to ...

They say the city seems theirs again. Mount Qasioun, which overlooks the Syrian capital, Damascus, is being revived as a leisure spot. Residents of Syria’s capital are picnicking on a once ...

After the fall of Syria's despotic Assad regime, life is slowly returning to one Damascus neighborhood, where the violence and painful memories of the past are still literally being unearthed.

Jewish pupils in the Maimonides school in 'Amārah al Juwwānīyah, in the historic Maison Lisbona in Damascus ... but also a gesture of respect for the history and culture of the entire Syrian ...

Two days after the Syrian despot Bashar al-Assad fled his palace, Moises Saman and I arrived in Damascus to witness the beginning of a profound reckoning. The Assad family had dominated the ...

Victims of chemical weapons attacks by the overthrown Baathist regime forces gathered in the Syrian capital of Damascus on Tuesday to demand that those responsible for "chemical massacres" be held ...

In Damascus again after a hiatus of nearly eight years, I decided to see what remained of the city’s once flourishing Jewish community. The dictator was gone. The new Islamist rulers had yet to ...