An Israeli airstrike targeted a building in an upscale neighborhood, destroying an apartment that neighbors said had been ...

After Syria’s longtime autocratic ruler was toppled late last year, the man who led rebel groups to victory immediately faced ...

Syria's Islamist-led government on Monday said it had completed a military operation against a nascent insurgency by Bashar ...

This is a developing situation in Damascus, and if history has taught us anything, it’s that the Middle East can change overnight.

For Henry Hamra, who fled Damascus as a teenager with his family in the 1990s, the 30 years since have been shadowed by worry ...

While no one can predict the exact timing of these events, Bible prophecy makes it clear that Damascus will one day be completely destroyed.

A 2nd-century gate in the Old City's Muslim Quarter offers a glimpse into the capital's multilayered history -- and complex present ...

Maaloula is one of the world's few places where residents still speak Aramaic, the language that Jesus is believed to have used. The town is also home to Syria's two oldest active monasteries. But ...

He clings to the prophecy of Dzhokhar Dudayev, the Chechen independence movement leader assassinated in 1996, who once proclaimed: “Russia will cease to exist when the Ukrainian sun rises.” ...

DAMASCUS — If there is a verbal expression of heartache, Rabbi Yusuf Hamra uttered it as he stepped inside the Faranj synagogue in the Syrian capital last week. It was the last place he had said ...

DAMASCUS — If there is a verbal expression of heartache, Rabbi Yusuf Hamra uttered it as he stepped inside the Faranj synagogue in the Syrian capital last week. It was the last place he had said ...