elderly man appeared on the balcony facing the street. Firas shouted that I was a Jewish journalist who had come to find out about the Jews of Damascus. After a long pause, the old man pulled a ...

You mentioned that Damascus itself looked worn out. I’m wondering if there’s anything else that stood out to you as you walked through the streets of the Old City of Damascus. There was this ...

DAMASCUS, Syria - The number of fuel vendors on the streets of Damascus has recently surged dramatically. They sell various ...

The 63-year-old writer was supposed to have been executed ... Associated Press after walking in disbelief through the streets of Damascus. “Instead of being dead tomorrow, thank God, he gave ...

Syria's tiny Jewish community said they held their first group prayer in decades on Feb. 19, in a synagogue in Damascus's Old City, expressing joy at the long-awaited return to public worship.

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 ...

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-Shalchi ...