Located off Al-Amin Street in the old Jewish Quarter, Beit Farhi is the real power center in Old Damascus. Tim Beddow Ghosts inhabit Damascus’ Old City like players on a stage. You can see them ...

Rebel forces in Syria have ousted President Bashar al-Assad from power, ending more than half a century of brutal rule by the Assad family. Assad's downfall came less than two weeks after an initial ...

The fighters who forced Bashar al-Assad into exile began the complex task of governing the Syrian capital. On the road to Damascus, New York Times reporters saw evidence of lawlessness and relics of ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — “This was a Jewish home, and so was that. These were all Jewish homes,” Badriyah Mousa Shatah said as she walked through Damascus’s historic Jewish Quarter, or the “Harat al-Yahud” ...

Residents of Syria’s capital are picnicking on a once-forbidden mountaintop and trading openly in dollars and imported Nescafe. They say the city seems theirs again. Mount Qasioun, which overlooks the ...

Rebel forces in Syria reached the suburbs of Damascus on Saturday, marking what the jihadist-backed groups called the “final phase” of their offensive against the government as protesters in the city ...

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Syrian rebels claim to have captured a fifth city and are closing in on the capital of Damascus as they carry out a lightning-fast offensive that threatens to further destabilize a region already ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Insurgents' stunning march across Syria accelerated Saturday with news that they had reached the gates of the capital and that government forces had abandoned the central city of Homs.

A car bomb explosion in Syria’s capital Damascus killed at least one person near the Old City, prompting authorities to launch a security investigation into the incident.