To applause, percussionist Bahjat Antaki took the stage with Syria's national symphony orchestra, marking the first classical concert at the Damascus opera house since president Bashar al-Assad ...

On this episode of The Sunday Story, NPR's Ruth Sherlock takes us to a notorious prison where thousands were detained and killed, and she visits a suspected mass gravesite outside Damascus.

“In the Hama countryside [around 200km north of Damascus] there is a state of extreme chaos and widespread illegal excavations of sites and hills,” Nabo says. He attributes the vulnerability ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Syrian civil defense workers, known as the White Helmets, collect human remains found in two separate ...

DAMASCUS — Vice President JD Vance pledged the federal government will do more to assist residents of this small community rebuild in the wake of disastrous flooding in September caused by ...

One of them, discovered in al-Qutayfah, 40 kilometers north of Damascus, contains the bones of 100,000 missing persons, according to initial estimates. The unprecedented repression carried out by ...

A DW journalist from Syria shares her experience of returning to Damascus after the end of the civil war. Rama Jarmakani Reporter, DW Middle East and North Africa.

Flooding last September damaged hundreds of homes in southwest Virginia, and the town of Damascus, not far from the North Carolina line, was the hardest hit. Nearby communities of Whitetop ...

This was one of them, getting to the devised areas, like Damascus, like Western North Carolina, like Northeast Tennessee, said Stanton. Stanton told me it is a good first step to getting things ...

Vance's trip to Damascus was his first official trip outside of Washington, DC as vice president. "I promise you that this administration will not forget you, we love you, we're rooting for you ...

DAMASCUS, Va. — Vice President JD Vance pledged Monday that the federal government will do more to help residents of this tiny Southwest Virginia community rebuild in the wake of disastrous late ...