A visit to the souk in the old city in the Syrian capital of Damascus tell us a lot about the state of the country's current economy.

bells and revolutionary flags are strung above the ancient streets of the old city of Damascus. A young man dressed as “Baba Noel” goes from house to house with a band of trumpet players and ...

Twinkling lights, stars, bells and revolutionary flags are strung above the ancient streets of the old city of Damascus. A young man dressed as “Baba Noel” goes from house to house with a band of ...

School lessons ended in Syria's biggest Palestinian refugee camp on October 18, 2012, judging by the date still chalked up on ...

She and her family fled Damascus in 2012 for Beirut. There, for the first time, her 7-year-old daughter began to ... prison as “going to your aunt’s house,” several Syrians recounted.

Several social media accounts sympathetic to the ousted president are pumping out disinformation aimed at stoking sectarian ...

(AP Photo/Leo Correa) A Syrian fighter carries his weapon past a burning house during a raid to stop ... at Mariamiya Orthodox Church in old Damascus, Syria, Sunday, Dec. 15, 2024.

The country’s industrial capital, a religious melting pot and a strategic crossroads, is trying to rise from the devastation ...

The BBC's Barbara Plett-Usher says she has heard gunfire and explosions but it is "relatively calm" in Damascus ... happen next," she added. 25 year-old Rayane Salman describes how she and ...

“Fear in the country reached a level that you felt like you can’t even trust your family,” said 26-year-old Damascus resident, Ayman Rifai. In this environment of surveillance, Syrians improvise ...

As Israeli aggression in Gaza, Lebanon, and Post-Assad Syria deepens human suffering and regional instability, and amid ...