Stone’s gamble in Damascus Gate was that a spy novel set in Jerusalem would be different. That is because, as many characters in the book have occasion to muse, Jerusalem is different.

Syria’s brutal conflict between regime and rebel forces is creeping closer and closer to nervous residents in the areas of Damascus still under government control. But in some suburbs of the ...

Throughout its 300-year existence, the al-Nofara café in Damascus' stone-built Old City has always had a hakawati telling stories in evening gatherings, said the cafe's owner Mohammed Rabat.

In Damascus, The Bars Are Packed ... My colleague and I entered the Syrian capital's Old City through an enormous stone gate and a checkpoint manned by pro-government paramilitaries.

Mouaz Moustafa, the executive director of the Syrian Emergency Task Force, speaks with Fox News Digital from Damascus about his organization's efforts to find U.S. journalist Austin Tice and others.

Syria’s brutal conflict between regime and rebel forces is creeping closer and closer to nervous residents in the areas of Damascus still under government control. But in some suburbs of the ...