Books recounting torture in Syrian prisons or texts on radical Islamic theology now sit openly in Damascus bookstores, no ...

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

Founded in the 3rd millennium B.C., Damascus is one of the oldest cities in the Middle ... The city has some 125 monuments from different periods of its history - one of the most spectacular is the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two hundred years of that history is displayed in a former Montgomery County portable school building tucked away behind the Damascus Library and Senior Center off Main Street. The Damascus ...

The paper said that in resuming its work from Damascus, it would continue providing coverage reflecting 'the pulse of the ...

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 ...

On January 24, 1965, Syrian secret police raided an upscale apartment in Damascus and arrested businessman Kamel Amin Tha’abet. Accused of being an Israeli spy who had revealed some of Syria’s ...

Austin Tice's Mother, in Damascus, Hopes to Find Son Missing Since 2012 (This Dec. 18 story has been corrected to show that the New York Times first reported Tice's escape, in paragraph 11 ...

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.