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 ...

According to the Civil Defense, one of the latest discoveries was a mass grave near the Damascus border containing approximately 80 bodies. The total number of exhumed remains so far is in the ...

“I think he is testing the limits of his power, and I don’t think any of us are surprised by it,” said Sen. Kevin Cramer, a North Dakota Republican who is close with Trump. At first blush, the Trump ...

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 ...

DAMASCUS, Va. — Storm victims in Damascus said they are happy Vice President JD Vance came back to town for the second time Monday, and they hope he can help with a few things they still need ...