Hello from Free Syria. I’m in Damascus right now. It’s a beautiful winter. Everything is better than before,” Ayoub Alsmadi, ...

Now, the green, white and black flag of “Free Syria” flies above Damascus, and local operators ... tourists were drawn to ancient sites like Palmyra, a Greco-Roman city largely destroyed ...

The people of Damascus are trying to move on, but many remain in the midst of the ruins, and rebuilding remains a distant ...

and the ancient city—for the first time since 2011—has become accessible to the public again. The desert roads from Damascus and Homs, littered by remains of tanks and multiple-rocket ...

This is the twelvth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in worlds beyond the pathological ...

F or a kid whose favorite subject was history, the Assassin’s Creed series was what I had hoped to see in a video game.