They were on opposite sides during Syria's civil war and now must do lifesaving work together. A makeshift brick wall divides ...

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In the first week after the regime fell, I stood in a huge, excited crowd in nearby Damascus neighbourhood Midan after word went around that the public execution of one of the men responsible for ...

Amar was conveyed to the Midan military court in Damascus, where a judge demanded $15,000 from Amar's wife in exchange for leniency. Amar was released in 2018 after a year behind bars.

AFP photographer Sameer al-Doumy never dreamed he would be able to return to the hometown in Syria that he escaped through a tunnel seven years ago after it was besieged by Bashar al-Assad's ...

His parents buried him the next day at a cemetery in the al-Midan neighborhood in Damascus. Some of the women searching the prisons and morgues could only hope for this kind of closure.

Syrian rebels have celebrated their victory in Damascus, firing celebratory gunshots as they declared the capital "free from the tyrant Assad." The dramatic moment follows the fall of Damascus to ...

Some pretty wild footage is coming out of Damascus and its environs. In al-Midan, a neighbourhood about 3km from the city centre, people can be seen taking to the streets. BREAKING — Syrians ...