Syria’s status as a classic Middle East tourist definition was shredded by civil war. Visitors are now beginning to return, ...

The Islamist former insurgents now in charge need to build popular support and demonstrate rule of law. And they’re finding ...

After the fall of Syria's despotic Assad regime, life is slowly returning to one Damascus suburb, where the violence and ...

In Damascus again after a hiatus of nearly eight years, I decided to see what remained of the city’s once flourishing Jewish community. The dictator was gone. The new Islamist rulers had yet to ...

Inside Syria's ancient capital, a lone Jewish guardian watches over abandoned properties while Islamist rulers patrol the rubble of historic synagogues.

The regime of the Syrian dictator systematically devastated numerous cities, preventing the displaced from returning to their places of origin. The presence of the new governor of Damascus, Maher ...

Syria’s future depends on a historic undertaking: facilitating the return of Syrian refugees to their homes in a country ...

Palestinians fled the 1948 Mideast War and took refuge in neighboring Syria. After 77 years, they're still waiting to go back ...

In a centuries-old monastery on a rocky hill north of Damascus, friends of missing Italian priest Paolo Dall'Oglio carry on his legacy, hopeful Bashar al-Assad's ouster might help reveal the Jesuit's ...

Samir al-Baghdad is restoring his family's destroyed home in the Qaboun neighbourhood close to the Syrian capital, Damascus. (AP/Omar Sanadiki/ representative) He is rebuilding his destroyed ...

Nestled in a leafy neighborhood of Damascus, a so-called financial crimes ... while wide swaths of the country lie in ruins. Reconstruction has been estimated to cost $350 billion to $500 billion.

DAMASCUS, Syria — A train station in Damascus ... The nearby neighborhood of Al-Assali is now mostly in ruins after becoming a no man’s land between the station and the Palestinian refugee ...