It is a concentration camp,” Israel’s former prime minister Ehud Olmert said this week. “If they [Palestinians] will be ...

U.S. envoy to Syria Tom Barrack says that Israel and Syria have agreed to a ceasefire following Israel’s intervention this ...

Members of Syria's Druze community are searching for loved ones and counting their dead after days of clashes in a southern ...

Hearing about attacks on Damascus instantly brings to mind the ancient words of the prophet Isaiah. In chapter 17 of his book, Isaiah tells of a time when Damascus will be reduced to ruins, no longer ...

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

Besides Damascus, other key cities include Aleppo, known for its historic citadel and ancient bazaar; Homs, a major ...

It has been seven months since Bashar al-Assad was ousted from power in Syria, thrusting the country into a new era after 54 ...

Shiite rituals for Ashoura in Damascus have drastically changed after the fall of Syria's former President Bashar Assad. Once bustling with pilgrims, the Sayyida Zeinab shrine area is now subdued, ...

Shiite pilgrims from Syria and abroad used to flock to the Sayyida Zeinab shrine outside of Damascus every year to commemorate Ashoura, a solemn day marking the 7th-century martyrdom of the ...