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

“Syria lives, the regime has fallen!” elated young Syrians standing on chairs chanted in a packed bar near Damascus’ Old City. They wore shiny, cone-shaped party hats; held revolutionary ...

You can access the Old City from seven entryways: the New Gate, Damascus Gate, Herod's Gate, Lions' Gate, Dung Gate, Zion Gate, and Jaffa Gate. Each doorway marks a significant era of Jerusalem's ...

Others have brought a sense of relief and joy. That was evident at the Al-Hamidiyah market in the heart of the old city of Damascus. It was once inaccessible to many Syrians. NPR's Hadeel Al ...

Economy has been battered by corruption and 13 years of civil war. Coupled with international sanctions and mismanagement, ...

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.

a 24-year-old Catholic resident of Damascus, who chose to give only his first name to speak freely, told CNN. When Islamist rebels swept through Syria’s second largest city in an operation that would ...

Credit: AP/Omar Sanadiki In the following decades, Syria used its section of the railway to transport people between Damascus and its second city of Aleppo ... upgraded, the old wooden ones ...

Forces led by opposition group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) entered the city in the early ... a 39-year-old researcher in Syrian cultural heritage in Damascus, told the BBC. "Overwhelmed is not ...