As Mark Twain wrote, Damascus “measures time not by days and months and years, but by the empires she has seen rise and ...

The overnight clash in Damascus appeared to have been contained, but it has heightened concerns that the violence sweeping ...

Syrian’s interim president has said that millions would return after President Bashar al-Assad’s ouster, but many houses and other buildings were destroyed in 13 years of civil war.

Members of the small religious sect find themselves caught between two forces that many of them distrust: the new, ...

The work of the Syria Strategy Project and the considerable policy recommendations found in this report present a realistic ...

"It's a great feeling," he said as he passed through the Damascus Gate, one of the main entrances to the Old City. In recent years, Israeli authorities have regularly restricted access to the mosque ...

The reported fighting in the capital, Damascus, and the second city of Aleppo were the first such clashes there since the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime.

You can access the Old City from seven entryways: the New Gate, Damascus Gate, Herod's Gate, Lions' Gate, Dung Gate, Zion Gate, and Jaffa Gate. Each doorway marks a significant era of Jerusalem's ...

Night - Clear. Winds variable at 7 mph (11.3 kph). The overnight low will be 50 °F (10 °C). Sunny with a high of 71 °F (21.7 °C). Winds variable at 4 to 7 mph (6.4 to 11.3 kph). Sunny today ...

The Trump administration moved its fast-paced dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development toward what ...

For Henry Hamra, who fled Damascus as a teenager with his family in the 1990s, the 30 years since have been shadowed by worry for what they left behind. “I was just on the lookout the whole time.

Damascus authorities have blamed summary executions of dozens of youths and deadly raids on homes in villages and towns inhabited by Syria’s once-ruling minority on unruly armed militias that ...