The old city of Damascus is considered to be among the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world. Excavations at Tell Ramad on the outskirts of the city have demonstrated that Damascus was ...

Restoration has been completed on a 2,000-year-old statue destroyed by the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) after the iconoclastic jihadists overran the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra in 2015.

"The problem with America," says Amr, digging into a gelato, "is that everyone thinks Syria and Iran are like Trinidad and Tobago." We're sharing a park bench in a busy, modern part of Damascus ...

Seven months after the fall of Syria's former president Bashar al-Assad, FRANCE 24’s Wassim Nasr gained access to sites ...

A partial view of the ancient oasis city of Palmyra, Syria in 2014, including The Arch of Triumph which was destroyed on Oct. 4, 2015. Joseph Eid—AFP/Getty Images ...

In Ancient Syrian City, Fighting Has Stopped But Rebuilding Is Scarce Homs was one of the places where the Syrian uprising began. ... Damascus, and some other cities.

Five Roman artefacts from the ancient city of Palmyra, a site damaged during Syria's decade-long conflict, were returned to Damascus on Thursday by a private Lebanese museum where they had been on ...

In an ancient city in Syria, ... Hama is located in present-day western Syria, about a 136-mile drive from the nation’s capital of Damascus along the eastern border of Lebanon.

VII.55 Ancient City of Damascus (Syrian Arab Republic) The Secretariat recalled that a mission of five experts visited the city of Damascus late 1995 and that their reports emphasized the tremendous ...