Damascus is slowly returning to normal… but for those nearby, life couldn’t be more different Young people enjoy the bustling nightlife and cafes spill on to the streets of Syria’s capital ...

Syrians in Damascus were seen returning to work and carrying on with their lives, footage captured on December 14 shows. Images by Obada Jbara show people visiting the Al-Hamidiyeh Souq in ...

Syrian civil war: Damascus clings to normal life amid the chaos of conflict Residents look for pockets of enjoyment despite the forces encircling them ...

While the U.N. estimates that 1 million Syrians will have fled their homeland by June 2013, many Syrians are attempting to stay within their communities in hopes of maintaining some sense of ...

In the first of as many as eight meetings, the Damascus Planning Commission will take public requests for changes to the 2010 land-use designations on the city's voter-rejected comprehensive plan map.

That was the unmistakable message of the release by Israeli authorities on Tuesday of a map pinpointing what it said were homes and offices of Palestinian militant leaders in Damascus.

The Ummayyid Mosque in Damascus has been a mosque for around 1,400 years. It sits in the center of a city where many people are struggling to live normal lives amid war.

Another sign of a return to something like normal life has been the reopening of Damascus roads closed to traffic ever since the summer of 2012 because of their proximity to government buildings. In ...

Dana Daqqaq, a bartender at Pub Sharqi, in Damascus, Syria. "People are tired of war and just want to live a normal life, so they go out, they socialize," she told Reuters.

Another sign of a return to something like normal life has been the reopening of Damascus roads closed to traffic ever since the summer of 2012 because of their proximity to government bidings.