In the 12th century, the Andalusian poet and traveler Ibn Jubayr described the agricultural lands around Damascus as “the ...
Ismail had left his home in rural western Aleppo in 2016, after his father was killed in fighting in the country’s bloody ...
Thousands of Syrians have poured into the streets and public squares to mark 14 years since the country’s civil war began, ...
The head of the Druze community in Israel on Thursday hailed plans for the first visit by a Druze religious delegation from Syria in five decades, despite escalating cross-border tensions underscored ...
Before Germany, Italy reopened its embassy last year before the fall of Assad, and Spain reopened its embassy after his ...
When The Economist’s correspondent, Sarah Birke, left Damascus in 2011 she wasn’t ... how it had been changed by more than a decade of war. What she found was a city uncertain about its ...
The Islamist regime of Ahmad al-Shara’a in Damascus has declared war on Iran’s proxy in Lebanon ... west of Homs, before taking them to Lebanese territory and executing them on the spot.
DAMASCUS, Syria — Germany’s foreign minister reopened its embassy in Damascus on Thursday, 13 years after it was shut in the ...
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP ... Arab dictators known as the 2011 Arab Spring, before Assad crushed the largely peaceful protests and a civil war erupted. Half a million people have been killed ...