With its chic galleries, dimly lit bars and smoky cafés, Damascus’ vibrant cultural scene is flourishing again. But will this ...

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

After the fall of Syria's despotic Assad regime, life is slowly returning to one Damascus neighborhood, where the violence and painful memories of the past are still literally being unearthed.

As midday approaches in Damascus, Syria’s capital, thousands of people from all corners of the country converge on Umayyad ...

Crossing the border from Jordan on Dec. 29, one North Jersey man had tears in his eyes. “I hugged the first Syrian person I ...

Syrian-Canadian Amrou Nayal is about to visit Syria for the first time in 16 years. He reflects on lost hope, sacrifices, and ...

The streets, once hemmed in by checkpoints ... each day feels like existing in two overlapping worlds: one is the old Damascus, deeply etched into our memories, and the other is this evolving ...

After the ouster of Syria's longtime leader Bashar al-Assad last month, Israel's military has taken up a new post in the ...

elated young Syrians standing on chairs chanted in a packed bar near Damascus’ Old City. They wore shiny ... and a video the bartender shared with a Wall Street Journal reporter shows he ...

"We did not expect such a miracle to happen, today the Syrians have found their smile again," Layane el Hijazi, a 22-year-old agricultural ... patrolled the streets of Damascus less than a month ...

"We did not expect such a miracle to happen, today the Syrians have found their smile again," Layane el Hijazi, a 22-year-old agricultural engineering ... Despite the revelry, soldiers patrolled the ...

a 65-year-old grocer whose children fled to Turkey, Libya, Lebanon and Austria. The neighborhood now looks like a ghost town. In the few streets spared total destruction, store shutters remain ...