Witness the creation of the Damascus axe as recycled metal is skillfully transformed into a functional and stunning tool.

His artistically forged, welded and fabricated metalwork encompasses Damascus knives, swords and axes influenced by Saxon bladesmithing from the seventh to the ninth century. Owen forges a modern ...

Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati arrived in Damascus Saturday in the first such visit since before civil war broke out in Syria in 2011, an AFP journalist reported.

One of the mass graves is located just outside Damascus in Al Qutayfah ... is believed to be one of the largest mass graves in modern history, and its true count could rival that of the Stalin ...

WASHINGTON/DAMASCUS (Reuters) -U.S. diplomats visiting Damascus held ... The rebel sweep ended a war that killed hundreds of thousands, caused one of the biggest refugee crises of modern times and ...

Recreating Damascus steel remains a holy grail of materials science. The exact process and alloys used are long ago lost to time. At best, modern steelworking methods are able to produce a rough ...

Lesch, author of The New Lion of Damascus: Bashar al-Asad and Modern Syria (Yale University Press, 2005) will present a lecture followed by a question and answer session.

The University of Health Sciences (Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi) of Türkiye has initiated a project to revive the Mekteb-i ...