Christmas trees popped up in squares in the city. There was a cardboard nativity scene being built when I visited Bab Tuma, the Christian neighborhood of Damascus.

AL-SHALCHI: A few dozen people gather in an ancient Orthodox church deep in Bab Tuma, the Christian neighborhood of Damascus. It's the Sunday before Christmas. Crystal chandeliers hang from the ...

An AFP correspondent who went to Bab Tuma said he saw bloodied people running in the streets, calling for help and waiting for ambulances. A civilian in a pick-up truck ferried several people to ...

Bab Tuma and Bab al-Sharqi, two predominantly Christian areas in the heart of Damascus, want their rights to be protected. "We, Christians and Muslims, are all brothers and have been living with ...

Churches across Syria marked Easter on Sunday with vibrant ceremonies and heartfelt prayers. The neighborhoods of Bab Tuma and Bab Sharqi in the capital Damascus served as focal points for the ...

The attack took place in the Bab Tuma borough, in Old Damascus. The suicide bomber mingled with a group of people queuing for food and other basic necessities handed out by a religious charity. No ...

Violence leaves Syria's Christians with little mood to celebrate Christmas Nine months of unrest in Syria have stripped Bab Tuma, the oldest Christian quarter of Damascus, of any sign of Christmas ...

DAMASCUS (Reuters Life!) - The ancient capital of Syria, in the words of Syrian film director Nabil al-Maleh, is one of the last cities on the planet where most problems are solved with a smile ...

In the historic neighborhood of Bab Tuma, adjacent to the Great Umayyad Mosque and several churches, a perfumery and antiques shop sells photographs of revolutionary Marxist icon, Che Guevara.

Rising from ashes For example, in 1860 when Syria was under occupation by the Ottoman empire, the quarter of Bab Tuma in the north-east of the city was ransacked.

The attack took place in the Bab Tuma borough, in Old Damascus. The suicide bomber mingled with a group of people queuing for food and other basic necessities handed out by a religious charity. No ...

Marmar in Bab Tuma blasts Arab and Western tunes and owner Munther Kubba likes to mix with the crowd. An Arabic band plays at Laterna on May 29 Street. Piano Bar in Bab Sharqi has Karaoke every night.