Marook, a sweet bread eaten during Ramadan in Syria, used to be a simple loaf, but now the list of choices can be as long as ...

Photographs of the dead lined the walls as a series of speakers took to a microphone to tell stories – interspersed with ...

Since the downfall of the Baathist regime, Syrians have been speaking more freely about their future – and their doubts in ...

"This evening, we are hosting 1,700 heroes from Damascus province," said Saad Eddin Al-Mowaqet, director of HAND, as volunteers in neon-green vests bustled behind him. "These heroes come from various ...

In Iraq, calls for unity As the sun set behind the mountains of Akre in the semi-autonomous ... waved high above the crowds ...

As the sun set behind the mountains of Akre in the semi-autonomous Kurdish ... waved high above the crowds as people danced in the streets. The new rulers in Damascus, Islamist former insurgents, have ...

DAMASCUS, March 27 (Xinhua ... while others closed their eyes in brief prayer before sipping water at sunset. Hussein Ammar, a volunteer for HAND, described the event as a gesture of gratitude ...

Umayyad Mosque at sunset – a Christian basilica in a previous ... iStock For an incurable antiquarian and aspiring epicurean, the old town of Damascus was a kind of paradise.