Farmland rolling outside Damascus. Today, the city and the surrounding ... But when this photo was taken, the country's devastating civil war was still decades in the future.

According to Al Jazeera, the militants seized control of several government facilities in the city center, including the Syrian state television building DUBAI, December 8. /TASS/. Syrian army ...

Syria has been at war for nearly four years ... of coups d'etat in the 1960s and in the decades before and after, Cushman's photos of downtown Damascus in 1965 paint a more mundane picture ...

Thousands of Syrians have poured into the streets and public squares to mark 14 years since the country’s civil war began, ...