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 ...

The Assad Regime has ended in Syria with rebels taking Damascus. NBC News' Richard Engel is on the ground in Damascus and NBC News' Kelly O'Donnell is at the White House with our reporting.

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 ...

The tank movements near Damascus occur against the backdrop of broader military activity. Israel has conducted one of its largest air operations in history, striking more than 250 military targets ...