People gather for a communal Ramadan iftar amid rubble of destroyed buildings in al-Qaboun, north of Damascus, Syria, March 4, 2025. (Photo by Monsef ...

People gather for a communal Ramadan iftar amid rubble of destroyed buildings in al-Qaboun, north of Damascus, March 4, 2025. Amid the gray rubble of shattered concrete and collapsed buildings, ...

Visiting the site of what had been Syria’s oldest synagogue of all, in the Jobar area of Damascus, Hamra found it in ruins from the war, with an ordnance shell still among the rubble.

DAMASCUS, March 4 (Xinhua ... Al-Qaboun, once a bustling district of the Syrian capital, now stands in ruins after years of war. Though the guns have largely fallen silent, the scars of ...