Revisiting Damascus’s cultural sites, both in the Old City and beyond, I found them all open, well-staffed and selling tickets, just as they had been before the war - although museums like the medical ...

Thirteen years after the death of Bassel Shahadeh, a prominent Damascene activist and a talented filmmaker killed by the Assad regime in the early months of the Syrian revolution, his friends, family ...

Doha, Qatar: Msheireb Museums, in collaboration with the French Embassy in Qatar, has announced the upcoming photography exhibition “DEPARTURES: A Journey Back into Syria” by Syrian-French ...

One of those returnees was a 41-year-old man known as Rami al-Sayed. Like Sharaa, he had taken on a new identity when he joined the rebels and fled his Damascus home.

DAMASCUS, Feb 22 (Reuters) - On a wintry night in Damascus, hundreds of people packed into a courtyard in the Old City, dancing and singing during a joyful evening of music - a concert held with ...

Owner Rasool Alabrach says the Damascus House Restaurant and Cafe on Commissioners Road in London is an ode to the old homes of Damascus in his native Syria. Photo taken on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025.

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Walking under pomegranate and lemon trees in the streets of Old Damascus and peering into abandoned courtyards brought to life, so many stories I’d heard from Syrians of what had been taken away ...

"We will therefore not judge them on them words but on their actions and over time." The French delegation meets members of the clergy in Damascus. Photo: French Foreign Ministry Mr Barrot also showed ...

Syrian rebels seized Damascus on Sunday, ousting former President Bashar al-Assad and releasing thousands of prisoners from the dictator’s jails, including 61-year-old Suheil.