On Dec. 8, Syrian rebels entered Damascus, ending the Assad family’s 54-year rule and ostensibly the first phase of the Syrian Civil War. Beginning in the Spring of 2011 after a violent ...

Syria Before the Deluge, the title of Peter Aaron’s photography exhibit of Syria in 2009 at New York City’s Center for Architecture, ... Still alive is Syrian leisure. War makes headlines.

In Syria’s capital, the civil war suddenly seems far away Pedestrians lounge near the newly installed “I love Damascus” sign in Damascus, Syria, on Oct. 31. (Nabih Bulos / Los Angeles Times) ...

Israel launched rare strikes in Damascus on Wednesday in a campaign it said was aimed at defending the Druze community after ...

Before the war, Mustafa Bakkar raised chickens and worked at his family's butcher shop in Douma, northeast of Damascus. Ten years ago, the war came to his street. "There were lots of cluster ...

They were on opposite sides during Syria's civil war and now must do lifesaving work together. A makeshift brick wall divides ...

At least 70 people killed in multiple clashes spreading across the coast of the Arab country, which the Damascus government attributes to former followers of the ousted dictator Bashar Assad.

Damascus is still a city where the country’s multi-sectarian, multi-ethnic communal mosaic is on display, and, if anything, it has been accentuated by the influx of thousands of people displaced ...

As Syria's economy collapsed during its civil war, the country became something of a narco state. The regime of ousted President Bashar al-Assad earned billions by trafficking in the drug Captagon.

Syria's war: How barbarity, confusion and indifference helped Bashar al-Assad prosper Here's what to know about the complex war. Why has Syria's civil war re-erupted now? A cease-fire brokered by ...

A giant banner of Syrian President Bashar Assad hangs on the facade of a building, as pedestrian walk through an the empty streets of Damascus, Syria, on Dec. 7, 2024. Omar Sanadiki / AP ...