Camera: MOHAMMED AL RIFAI. FOOTAGE OF THE ITALIAN FOREIGN MINISTER, ANTONIO TAJANI, VISITING THE UMAYYAD MOSQUE IN DAMASCUS, SYRIA. [Restrictions: Spain, Latin America, or the U.S. Hispanic market ...

A few days after the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled into exile, in December, an elderly woman sat on the sidewalk ...

Mohamed Khairullah crossed the border into Syria and headed straight to the Rawdah Mosque in Aleppo ... As they converged on Damascus on Dec. 8, Assad fled the capital city, boarding a plane ...

A vast and eccentric collection of everything from vintage Rolls-Royces to an entire house relocated from Syria, the Sheikh ...

Assad’s regime and the dictator’s flight spread over the weekend, many Syrians rushed to the public squares to celebrate. In ...

There was a fearful stink in the ministry of information last week when a HTS-Uzbek fighter guarding Damascus’s main Umayyad mosque made some, it would be fair to say, unguarded comments about ...

On a street corner in the old town of Damascus, rugged men with rifles stare sharply at passers-by. Despite their appearance, ...

The regime set up by Hafez al-Assad after the coup d'état of November 13, 1970, had only one objective: Its own continuity, ...

This is the twelvth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in ...