This Ramadan, Syrians marked the 14th anniversary of the start of their country’s civil war. The conflict began as one of ...

Syria was poised for liberation. Instead, ethnic violence, sectarian dogma, and unchecked power are threatening to turn ...

Now, Damascus streets are bedecked with the new three-starred flag, not long ago a symbol of Assad's opponents. It flutters from poles and is plastered to walls, sometimes with the words “God is ...

Danial Georgios, a construction engineer living in Damascus, spoke exclusively to ... including shrines, symbols and churches. If a site is damaged or vandalized, the group will repair it ...

Sahar Diab had visited Damascus’ famed Umayyad Mosque previously. But as the Syrian lawyer went there to pray during her country’s first Ramadan after the end of the Assad family’s iron-fisted rule, ...

Burns acknowledged that monuments are often seen as symbols of a colonial mentality ... In discussing the Jewish banker’s house in Damascus, Burns emphasised the significance of a Jewish residence in ...

At the end of January, Ahmed al-Sharaa stepped up to a podium in the presidential palace in Damascus, dressed in the olive-drab uniform of a military commander. Seven weeks had passed since he ...

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The South Korean Constitutional Court ruled on Monday that the impeachment of Prime Minister Han Duck-soo was Illegitimate as his conduct, while partially unconstitutional, did not constitute a ...

Berkshire Hathaway Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the insurance, freight rail transportation, and utility businesses worldwide. The company provides property, casualty, life, accident ...

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