I had resigned myself to the fact I would never see Damascus again ... Picture: Spencer Platt/Getty Images But mostly they seemed to be off duty, in ones or twos, still partaking of the ...

It has always been a dream to return here,” said Abu Hamza, one of the few visitors to Palmyra since last month’s downfall of ...

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

Within weeks, that city was also under fire, so they left again, this time for Tadmur, a city known at home and abroad for its glorious ancient ... The road to Damascus was now open.

A Syrian footballer who lost his eyesight while fleeing his war-torn home country has graduated from university in the UK. In 2014, Maher Fattouh, then aged 21, was caught in a bomb explosion as he ...

His speech highlighted the deep roots of Christianity in the Levant, evoking images of Antioch, where disciples were first called Christians; the snow-covered peaks of Lebanon; the River Jordan, where ...

On the slopes of Mount Qasyun which overlooks Damascus, a network of tunnels links ... Bassel al-Assad died in a 1994 road accident. He had been the presumed successor to his father Hafez al ...

Use: Suki’s trip to Vietnam was a road to Damascus. She came back and signed ... Meaning: the Spartans were ancient people from the city of Sparta. They are believed not to have cared about ...

A fabled city centered around an ancient citadel ... with the capital, Damascus, already in their sights. On the roads along the way, tanks and armored vehicles were left abandoned, had crashed ...

The pealing of a precious ancient bell marked a momentous beginning ... The basilica’s location at the center of a star-shaped road network symbolically evokes the Star of Bethlehem, Makrickas ...

Vice President JD Vance will return to Washington County on Monday to review progress in the town of Damascus after the devastating September flooding from the remnants of Tropical Storm Helene.

The period between the two major feasts of St Paul, namely January 25, his conversion on the road to Damascus, and February 10, his shipwreck in Malta, are not just important calendar events ...