In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...

At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground ... killed hundreds of people near the country’s capital, Damascus, says the ordeal they experienced haunts them to ...

With the future of the city in the balance, a cultural historian looks past the corruption, violence and trauma of recent ...

Bel Trew joins those searching Damascus and other sites across the country for journalist Austin Tice and other American citizens who went missing under the brutal regime of Bashar al-Assad ...

The Christian community in the Syrian capital of Damascus on Tuesday celebrated Christmas by praying in churches. The Greek Melkite Catholic Church in Damascus's old city became crowded in the ...

Damascus started as a dairy farm town with segregated one and two room schoolhouses where many people earned their living as blacksmiths, carriage makers, peddlers, ice harvesters, milk deliverers ...

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

Photographers beckoned passers-by to take their picture outside the Umayyad Mosque, an edifice steeped in history that stands at the end of the Souq, in the heart of Damascus. The Umayyad Mosque ...

Senior U.S. diplomats visiting Damascus on Friday met with Syria's de-facto new ruler Ahmed al-Sharaa and held a "good" and "very productive" meeting with him about Syria's political transition ...