In the early 1800s, Damascus was one of the Ottoman Empire’s most important provincial centres. A prosperous city of around 150,000 inhabitants, it played a central role in the overland caravan trade ...

DAMASCUS - For the first time in three decades ... Jobar was home to a large Jewish community for hundreds of years until the 1800s and the synagogue, built in honour of the biblical prophet ...

Since Sochi deal, Syrian regime, Russian forces continue violating cease-fire in northwestern Syria Syrian regime forces killed more than 1,800 civilians and wrested control of 2,000 square ...

While the synagogues and Jewish school in the Old City remained relatively well-preserved, Syria's largest synagogue in Jobar, an eastern suburb of Damascus ... until the 1800s and the synagogue ...

an eastern suburb of Damascus, was reduced to rubble during the nearly 14-year civil war that erupted after Assad's violent suppression of protests against him. Jobar was home to a large Jewish ...