In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...

After 13 years of civil war, Syria’s dwindling Jewish community can return to the Jobar Synagogue in Damascus, one of the ...

With the future of the city in the balance, a cultural historian looks past the corruption, violence and trauma of recent ...

Victims of chemical weapons attacks by the overthrown Baathist regime forces gathered in the Syrian capital of Damascus on Tuesday to demand that those responsible for "chemical massacres" be held ...

Assad's regime, Russia lost a key all in the Middle East - but it still hopes to keeps its military bases in Syria.

Umayyad Square in Damascus hummed to the throngs of people brandishing "revolution" flags as Syria saw in the new year with hope following 13 years of civil war. Gunshots rang out from Mount ...

Bel Trew joins those searching Damascus and other sites across the country for journalist Austin Tice and other American citizens who went missing under the brutal regime of Bashar al-Assad ...

Damascus started as a dairy farm town with segregated one and two room schoolhouses where many people earned their living as blacksmiths, carriage makers, peddlers, ice harvesters, milk deliverers ...

Jewish pupils in the Maimonides school in 'Amārah al Juwwānīyah, in the historic Maison Lisbona in Damascus ... but also a gesture of respect for the history and culture of the entire Syrian ...