Farmland rolling outside Damascus. Today, the city and the surrounding area are heavily contested between the Assad regime and Syria's various rebel groups.

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

Before Germany ... Germany reopened its embassy in Damascus on Thursday, 13 years after it was shut in the early days of Syria’s civil war. The German and European flags fly in front of the ...

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 ...