With thousands of people in the Los Angeles area impacted by the devastating California wildfires, the region is facing billions in losses. It comes as insurance companies were already pulling back on ...

His most recent book, Journeys across Roman Asia Minor, chronicles the ruins of the Roman Empire ... 100,000 people have been discovered outside Damascus. Ahmed al-Shara, leader of the Hayat ...

That too is in ruins. The rubble of empires is everywhere around. Here is an ancient Roman road leading to Damascus and there an Ottoman tomb. Turkey’s brutal Islamist dictator, Recep Tayyip ...

In Syria's western desert, Maree Al Shehab had given up hope of seeing his home city of Palmyra again, still less showing his ...

Her long-unpublished novel was the culmination of a years-long fascination. What does it reveal about her fraught views on civil rights?

To wander among the ruins of the great city Palmyra ... Sadly many of the great Roman edifices, such as the Temple of Ba’al, Nebu, etc, have been destroyed by Isis in 2015.

Overlooking the Afrin River, within sight of the Turkish border, sprawl the vast Roman ruins of Cyrrhus ... including My House in Damascus: An Inside View of the Syrian Crisis (2016), and The ...

1. Entry into a post-Assad Syria As soon as news of Bashar al-Assad's ouster broke – and with the main airport at Damascus still out of action – I began making plans for how to get into Syria ...

Damascus (AFP) – Syrians returned on Wednesday ... ranging from prehistoric blades and Greco-Roman sculptures to Islamic art. The museum was closed for six years during Syria's civil war ...

Travellers are welcomed at Damascus's airport, which resumed international flights on Tuesday — LOUAI BESHARA International flights resumed at Syria's main airport in Damascus on Tuesday for the first ...

International flights resumed at Syria's main airport in Damascus on Tuesday for the first time since Islamist-led rebels toppled President Bashar al-Assad last month, AFP journalists said.

On Friday in Damascus, Tajani visited the Umayyad Mosque, one of the oldest and most imposing in the Muslim world. The site previously housed a Roman pagan temple, which was later transformed into ...