The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from Iraq and the British ...

The Iqlim Fahl was one of the many districts that constituted the extensive Mamlakat Dimashq in Bilad Al Sham during the ...

On the 14th anniversary of the Arab Spring, TTG’s Ilaria Grasso Macola asks whether Syria will ever come back as a mainstream ...

As Mark Twain wrote, Damascus “measures time not by days and months and years, but by the empires she has seen rise and ...

A 2nd-century gate in the Old City's Muslim Quarter offers a glimpse into the capital's multilayered history -- and complex present ...

A newly uncovered document at the Alliance Museum, a virtual museum dedicated to preserving the heritage of Jewish communities linked to the Alliance Israélite Universelle, offers fresh insight into ...

(AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed) A table is prepared for iftar, the fast-breaking meal, organized by the Turkish Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH), on the first day of Ramadan in the Jobar neighborhood, ...

Can Syria keep its promises? After the fall of Bashar al-Assad last December, the new rulers of Damascus are convening a one-day national dialogue conference. On paper, the outcomes sound ...

ARTEFACTS made from extraterrestrial metal have been discovered by archaeologists in two ancient cemeteries in ... It significantly predates Damascus steel, which is used in modern knives.

The Israeli military has conducted air raids targeting what it described as military bases and command centres in southern Syria and outside the capital, Damascus. Israeli warplanes hit the town ...

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