Residents walk along a poorly illuminated street in Damascus, Syria, early Thursday March 27, 2025. Neighborhoods in most ...

This Ramadan, Syrians marked the 14th anniversary of the start of their country’s civil war. The conflict began as one of ...

Below us ran the famous “straight street” where ... from an ancient settlement called Dura-Europos perched high above the Euphrates River east of Damascus along the Iraqi border.

In the 12th century, the Andalusian poet and traveler Ibn Jubayr described the agricultural lands around Damascus as “the ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP ... At the silent vigil, activists raised signs that called for de-escalation and denounced “sectarian incitement.” One read: “Neither religion, nor sect will ...

More than a decade had passed since Ahmed al-Sharaa squeezed into the narrow lift that went up to his parents’ 10th-floor apartment. The Soviet-style block hadn’t changed much since he last ...

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On Thursday, he hosted 120 street cleaners from Homs ... Upon his arrival to Damascus, he went straight to the village of Jobar on the outskirts of the city, which came under heavy shelling ...

Instead of a visit to Damascus that has been postponed ... Greece condemned the 7 October, 2023 attack on Israel by Hamas but has called for an end to the war in Gaza, and respect for ceasefire ...

I could tell because I was reading his travel memoirs, An African Abroad, and in them he describes almost every woman he meets as beautiful: his KGB-appointed travel guide, Natasha; a French-Arab sex ...