When Syria's new leaders shut 60 Damascus bars, drinkers protested, and the government reversed itself. It's an example of ...

DAMASCUS — Naveen Mahmoud was out running ... surrounded by secular hipsters. "At that time, we felt like we could connect with these people, if we just shake hands," Zainie says.

By Neil Hauer for bnm IntelliNews in Damascus The end of the 54-year rule of Syria’s Assad regime came so quickly that many ...

AKRE. Iraq (AP) — Kurds in Iraq and Syria this week marked the Newroz festival, a traditional celebration of spring and ...

Damascus, the country’s new leader has hosted a national unity conference and welcomed foreign dignitaries as crowds gather at cafes, speaking out freely for the first time in decades.

If I'm being honest, most of my knife time is spent chopping veggies, so I'm not upset to have two Damascus steel knives perfectly honed for the task. Even the very best knives can degrade and ...

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Germany’s Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock reopened her country’s embassy in Damascus on Thursday, marking the first time in 13 years that Germany has had a diplomatic presence in Syria ...

“At the same time, we felt there were not so many places ... In the past few years, Damascus Gate has often been a flashpoint for tensions between the Palestinian and Jewish residents of the ...

For Henry Hamra, who fled Damascus as a teenager with his family in the 1990s, the 30 years since have been shadowed by worry for what they left behind. “I was just on the lookout the whole time. The ...